Based on presuppositions of contemporary cultural theory, this article problematises a specific cultural artefact - the magazine MTV Music Television - as a means of discussing possible relations between education, media culture, youth and sexuality. The magazine is analysed as constituting a cultural pedagogy - the MTV "world"-, which produces meanings and teaches certain behaviours that are, in turn, established as youth-appropriate. The article argues that problematisations like these can be productive for thinking about how cultural artefacts - magazines, television programmes and films, for example - are helping to constitute forms of being and living sexuality and youth, in the contemporary world.
cultural studies; education; media; sexuality; youth