13C Media work for 3/11/10 and 4/11/10 - Due on Blog 5/11/10

In the Media A-Z (There are spare copies of this in DF05 on the desk near the front on the left side of the room) read/highlight the following:

Issues/Debates

• Representation and stereotyping
• Media effects
• Reality TV
• News Values
• Moral Panics
• Post 9/11 and the media
• Ownership and control
• Regulation and censorship
• Media technology and the digital revolution – changing technologies in the 21st century
• The effect of globalisation on the media

Theories

• Semiotics
• Structuralism and post-structuralism
• Postmodernism and its critiques
• Gender and ethnicity
• Marxism and hegemony
• Liberal Pluralism
• Colonialism and Post-colonialism
• Audience theories
• Genre theories

Use the internet to research these issues/debates and theories if you need further clarification or if you don't have a Media A - Z to hand.

Choose the five issues/debates/theories which apply most to your critical investigation question.

On your blog carefully define each of these five issues/debates/theories.

Then carefully explain how each of these 5 issues/debates/theories applies to your critical investigation.

For Homework (Due 10/11/10) - visit the blogs of four other students in the class. Look at their critical investigation research and question (you should all have posted this information on your blog by now!). Then in the comments section suggest one new issue/debate/theory that you think is relevant to each four students' areas of study. Explain why this issue/debate/theory can be applied to their critical investigation question.

If you have any questions - please email me: lwigley@greenford.ealing.sch.uk