Cultivation theory: Top Boy

The Cultivation theory was developed by Gerbner in the mid 1960s and it is the theoty that television has long term effects which are small and gradual, they are also indirect but still significant, and this is a theory we can see used in 'Top Boy'. In the opening scenes of 'Top Boy' we would expect to see a lot of negativity surrounding teenagers but more specifically black teenagers, but we are proved wrong, on the contrary to this, we see more positives for the black teenagers than negatives, which subverts the stereotype of how teenagers behave but also the stereotype we have been accustomed to regarding Black individuals, nevertheless their is still negativity regarding the teenagers but the opening scenes of 'Top Boy' you could say goes against Gerbner's theory of Cultivation and subverts it, in the way that Gerbner is right and we have been brought up to view teenagers and black individuals negatively but in the case of the opening scenes of 'Top Boy' the representations are subverted and this show will not have much effect on us as it is a small series, not the same as a longg running drama such as Eastenders, but I still agree with Gerbner's theory and agree over the long term we can become accustomed with such stereotypes and representations but not in the case of 'Top boy'  We also see in 'Top Boy' that many of the younger black teenagers are portrayed as more positively than the older generation, so this could refer to how society see's many teenagers and they make think of the older generation as the corrupt one, whereas the younger generation may be improving, also we see the young black teenager act morally throughout the opening scenes, even when he is tempted by his white friend, who we would expect to be the moral one out of the two due to stereotypes and old representations.