Thursday, May 25, 2017

Journal 14 Merchants of Cool


              The documentary was about how teenagers are big consumer targets. They feel more like they have to buy things to fit in with the popular culture and look a certain way and act a certain way. Parents will want to please the teens so they buy things for them. Teens consume many things like media, fashion, entertainment, etc., so marketers try and make their products adjust to what is cool in the teen culture. They look for the trendsetters and the cool people that are popular and respected by other people. This is not too similar to today’s culture at least from my perspective. I find that I don’t really consume too much and I never thought that my mom would even buy me things if I asked for it. I would ask for something in a store and she would be like next time but that just meant not going to buy it. I think that there is a sense of cool in the teenagers but I feel like teenager culture is less targeted now. I think technology is the big target now. MTV is also less big now.

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