Issues & Debates - Setting Up

For 13D students…

A reminder of the homework that is due for next Wednesday (19-10-05):

• Set up your own blog. Call it “Media Issues & Debates” but give it a personalised address with all or some of your first name in it and GHS.

• Make your first posting. Answer the following question as fully as possible:

Does the launch of highbrow digital TV channel ‘More4’ signal that the moral panic about ‘dumbing down’ in the media is no longer appropriate or does it prove that the debate is still relevant?

• Include the media keywords that were discussed in the lesson and make sure you have checked spelling and punctuation - this ain’t MSN.

• Refer to the articles we looked at:

• In the digital future, less means More4
• C4 to grab a slice of Freeview audience

• Include at least three different weblinks from different sources on the topic.
  

• Upload a relevant image – to do with More4 – from the internet.

• Send the link of your blog to my email address. Then I can put this link to your blog on the sidebar on Macguffin.

• Vote in the Macguffin Poll about More4 (see the sidebar on the left).
  

• Over the course of the week, post two more key media issues and debates stories, with weblinks, summaries and an image for each one.

• Get on with it! You may well encounter a few problems to start with but be persistent. Speak to me asap if you need any help. There will be credits for the best blogs!