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How has graffiti affected a younger generation?

Young people (ages 16-25) grew up in a generation fully submerged in a digital culture. They

account for the highest percentage of text message users in the United States. On average they

read up to one hundred text messages a day. They grew up around computers, video games,

using the web, downloading digital photos and writing on their cell phones.

This is precisely how anyone can see and experience Graffiti tags without physically beingthere. Graffiti artists now take pictures on their cell phones and send them to friends. Textculture and the accessibility of phones changed the way Graffiti is now accessed, documentedand read. Graffiti that was done on walls and the streets was never documented in this waybefore. The way most Graffiti artists documented it was through cameras that used film and

then they developed the images for documentation. They often had to develop several shotsand form a series of collages to get a full view of a piece they did on a long wall. Often, Graffartists compiled photo albums of their pieces and carried it with them to show others theirwork, a sort of artistic portfolio.

http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/6/another/diaz.html

Why Graffiti is aimed at this target audience?

This website has been carefully analyzed and this is what they have found

during their research

www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/antisocialbehaviour

Where are the most targeted places?

This website gives prime examples of where graffiti is being targeted

www.press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/Gove r nment

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Who is responsible for graffiti?

This website tells us details of who is mainly responsible and what object

this jeopardizes

www.dft.gov.uk/ p gr/crime/youngpeopleandcrime

What can be done about graffiti?

This website strongly reveals a positive answer

www.press.homeoffice.go v .uk/press-releases/Gov e rnment

When does graffiti change from vandalism to art?

This website gives statistics on what you think graffiti is

About Poll

Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism?

It's definitely art and should be celebrated(2442)

57%

It's definitely vandalism and offenders should be punished(641)

15%

It's art but there ought be specific places to create it(568)

13%

It's art but I don't want it on my wall thank you(100)

2%

If it's art, why not do it on a canvas and frame it?(138)

3%

Some of it's art, but most is rubbish(312)

7%

Something else(35)

0%

Total Votes: 4236

painting.about.com/b/2006/05/01/is-graffiti-art-or-vandalism

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