Genre Theory

PowerPoint from today's lesson;

Genre theory from Charlotte Cowles

G325 - Online Media

Videos from Monday's lesson;



There are a whole bunch of relevant TED Talks as well. Links for their YouTube pages; https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks/featured https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Exam Preparation - Year 13

PowerPoint from today's exam prep lesson;

G325 Exam Overview from Graveney School

G325 Section A - Relevant theory

PowerPoint from this morning's lesson;

G325 a media theory and theorists_sectiona- from gdsteacher

Remember only apply the theory that fits - use theory you have already learnt first and then explore new theory in relation to your products. Don't try to shoe-horn new theory in for the sake of it.

Also the PowerPoint we looked at last week;

Theory and Theorist For Media Studies A2 from MissOzzy

Plus - bonus PowerPoint on Narrative theory;

 

G325 narrative theory from Wayne O'Brien

Exam Prep - Year 13

Powerpoint on Postmodernism.

01. g325 contemporary media issues intro to section b - what is postmodernism from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

Cover Lesson 11/7/16

Finish research into pre Postmodernist theory. You should aim to have about one PowerPoint slide of notes on each theorist covered last lesson. All you need is to be able to show an understanding of how postmodernism is a response to their theories.

Continue research into genres - go over the work set in the post below and make sure it is done. You should also review past examples of music videos and identify what to and what not to dos.

Finally conduct research into songs and artists. You can use sound cloud for some of this but should also consider YouTube and social networks.

If you need anymore to be getting on with, begin looking at digipaks and posters. 

Coursework research and planning must be uploaded onto your blog. Exam research should be emailed to me.

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An extremely long but very useful PowerPoint;

http://www.slideshare.net/danikabarker/postmodernism-presentation-60762255

We Media and Democracy

•How far can the media in 2010 be considered to be democratic?

•Assess the claim that the media is becoming more democratic.

•Discuss the meanings of the term ‘we media.’

•Explore the claim that the ‘new’ media are more democratic than the ‘old’ media.

•Explain how some features of contemporary media are more democratic than others.

•What is ‘we media’ and what difference does it make to citizens?

•‘We get the media we deserve.’ Discuss, in relation to the role of media in a democracy.

•As a citizen, to what extent do you feel that the media provide you with a democratic service?

So as you can see, several previous questions focus on old media v new media, some on what might be defined as we media and some very specifically on notions of democracy

 

If we look at the bullet points in the Specification, which defines what should be studied, we should be able to relate them to the questions set so far:

•What are ‘We Media’?

•Where / how has ‘We Media’ emerged?

•In what way are the contemporary media more democratic than before?

•In what ways are the contemporary media less democratic than before?

This part of the exam asks you to do three more specific things, whatever topic you answer on:

1. You MUST refer to at least TWO different media
2. You MUST refer to past, present and future (with the emphasis on the present- contemporary examples from the past five years)
3. refer to critical/theoretical positions

           For this topic, since a lot of what you look at is likely to be online, a comparison between online media and any form of traditional media (newspapers, broadcast news, film) would ensure you quickly meet the criteria for no.1

For no.2, the main thing is to ensure you have a majority of material from the past five years. This really should not be a problem when using online media, and to be honest I think you could use material from the last few months to construct a really good answer!

And for no.3 you should have a range of writers that you could use- for example Dan Gillmor who coined the term 'We Media' or sceptics of the power of social media such as Evgeny Morozov or some of the advocates of people power through social media such as Clay Shirky

 

Key Theories;

§Dan Gillmor and ‘We the Media’

§Alan Rushbriger – Democracy in the decade of Google

§David Gauntlett: Web 2.0

§Karl Marx – Marxist Ideology and Capitalism

§Antonio Gramsci – Cultural Hegemony

§Noam Chomsky – ‘Manufactured Consent’

§The Fourth Estate of Democracy

§Clay Shirky and people power

§Evgeny Morozov – ‘The Net Delusion’

§Graeme Turner – ‘Ordinary People and the Media’

§Public Sphere Theory & Hypodermic Needle Theory

 

Examples of Case Studies - Look for Contemporary Equivalents.

 

§Facebook’s influence on the Arab Spring.

§Facebook in Egypt – bypassing ‘old media’.

§Student protests in London

§Worldwide ‘Occupy’ protests

§Role of BBM and Twitter in London riots

§Ryan Giggs super injunction – Twitter and privacy

§Blogs from soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TNHA Media: G325 Prep - Overview and Section A Focus

Reposting this from Feb - advice on theorists and areas of focus for Section A:

TNHA Media: G325 Prep - Overview and Section A Focus: As we get ever closer to the exam we need to start looking at how to improve on the mocks marks. I have included, below, two presentations o...

We Media and Democracy and Global Media

Powerpoints used in today's lesson. Remember they important slides are those that refer to the theorists e.g. Chomsky, Gillmor or Gauntlett.

You also need to find more out about Generation Y and Generation C - mostly in reference to We Media but also how the Global Media changes have affected them.

Don't forget there are aspects of both theories that can link to Postmodernism and Media Regulation.

We media & democracy intro from cskinner1
 

G325 media 2.0 & democracy from Julian McDougall
 

Global Media Trends from Amit Tekale

Evaluating Your Productions for G325 Section 1b.

G325 Section 1B - Analysing AS coursework from Cat Davies

Easter holiday task

OOver the Easter holidays find two pieces of evidence for one of the exam questions you are studying. One should support the idea and the other argue against it.

OE.G Media and democracy in action;

OOur Screen – a democratic approach to cinema where you can pick a film and, if enough people want to see the film it will be screened.

OOn the other hand they get to set the ticket price and, if you don’t get enough people interested, they won’t run the film.

Contemporary Media Regulation

Resources from today's lessons;

Contemporary Media Regulation Theory from hcayton

Media regulation powerpoint from Georgia Daly

G325 Prep - We Media, Global Media and Media in the Online Age

Week 1 'we media’ and democracy from tdcjackson

We media & democracy key terms activity from Media Studies

L1 introduction to the unit from Nick Crafts

G325 Prep - Overview and Section A Focus

As we get ever closer to the exam we need to start looking at how to improve on the mocks marks. I have included, below, two presentations on the exam - one offering general information on both the exam and advanced portfolio (you can ignore the advanced portfolio stuff) and the other looks at key concepts in relation to your own production work.

I'd recommend, as your planning and research for G324 comes to an end you focus on evaluating your work and exploring your topic choice for Critical Media Perspectives. For some of the topics you do not need a case study as such but would definitely benefit from using example questions to help you prepare fully for the exam.

 

Revision Guide A2 Media OCR from reigatemedia

 

G325 Key Media Concepts from egregson

 

OCR A2 Media studies Exam Questions 1a and 1b tips UPDATED from Mr Smith

G325 Exam Prep - Section B Notes

Bullet point checklists for exam revision, from Friday's lesson.

G325 Exam Prep - Year 13

Several powerpoints covering We Media and Democracy. I have ordered the book by Dan Gilmour which can be found here; We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People

I am happy to lend it out but you may find it worthwhile to get yourselves a copy.

I have also saved the following document in the O drive;

http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/download/we_media.pdf

Intro to a2 course g325 critical perspectives in media - question a from Mr Smith

Section b copy from petefrasers

A2 media revision from MsJMcLeod

 

G325 we media june 2011 from Media Studies

Year 13 - Today's Lessons

Today we covered four out of five of the areas for Section B of the exam.

Lesson 1 Contemporary Media Regulations from sezpenfold
 

Contemporary Media Regulation intro from Holly Taylor

 

L6 Global Media Introduction from Nick Crafts

 

Media And Collective Identity Youth Films from Sawtry Community College