The media debates that AQA suggest we cover include the following:
- Representation
- 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
Some of these we'll cover in exam lessons over the next 12 months while others will be a crucial aspect of your Critical Investigation. Regardless of where you address them, you need to be forming strong opinions on these issues and debates based on the evidence and theory you read and engage with.
Blog task: Media Factsheet 147 - Issues and Debates
Complete the following tasks using Media Factsheet 147: Issues and Debates. You'll find it in our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets.
Make sure post this to your new MEST4 Coursework blog.
Important: remember that Drive Access on the school website has been shut down permanently due to security fears - so you'll have to save the factsheet to USB or email it yourself from school if you want access at home.
1) Write a one-sentence answer to the initial questions in the factsheet:
- Do fashion magazines contribute to the occurrence of eating disorders?
- Do games make people behave violently?
- Does advertising work?
- Does social media generate misogyny?
2) Having read the two sides to the discussion, what is your opinion on the effects debate?
3) Summarise the two sides of the example issues and debates on page 2 of the factsheet:
- Twitter's influence on the news
- New technology, privacy and Wikileaks
- Social media and racism, sexism or threats online
4) What is your opinion on the growth of transgender issues in media debates?
5) Complete the MIGRAIN table below (also on page 4 of the factsheet) linking media products to issues and debates. For each question, you need to write two or three specific media products (e.g. a film, TV programme, a particular newspaper or news story, a certain music video etc.) that you could use when discussing that media debate.
Media language
How is digital technology changing the media language of moving image products?
Media products: Tangerine (award winning movie shot entirely on iPhone), news coverage of London Bridge attacks - citizen journalism.
Does the language used in tabloid and broadsheet news media shape the meaning of news stories differently?
Media products:
Ideology
Does the political persuasion of the news media have an impact on the politics of a culture?
Media products:
Do ‘twitter storms’ reflect dominant cultural values?
Media products:
Genre
After 100 years, is it possible for horror films to generate fear?
Media products:
How real is ‘reality TV’?
Media products:
Representation
Do marginalised groups have the power to self-represent?
Media products:
Are mainstream media representations of marginalised groups reinforcing or challenging traditional stereotypes?
Media products:
Audience
What gratifications does interaction provide for an audience?
Media products:
What relationships do audiences have with media institutions?
Media products:
Institution
What are institutions doing to offset ‘the culture of free’?
Media products:
Do streaming and on demand services alter audience behaviours?
Media products:
Narrative
Why do some modern films and broadcast fictions use non-linear narratives?
Media products:
Does it matter that newspapers structure stories using narrative roles such as ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’?
Media products:
It's unlikely you'll get this finished in the lesson so complete for homework - due in your next Media coursework lesson.
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