A-Z RESEARCH
Read the Media A-Z (as much as possible). At the very least, read/highlight the following (but don't highlight too much!)...
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
...and also any additional terms that are flagged up under each of these headings (they appear in a different font to denote that there are entries for them elsewhere in the dictionary).
MEST4 COURSEWORK IDEAS
On your MEST4 blog...
Write THREE critical Investigation titles/Linked Production ideas in full. Make sure you're clear about your main text and that there's enough detail included.
Select the best one (of the above) and make notes on the following...
- MIGRAIN
- SHEP
- Theories
- Issues/Debates
- "This fits into the contemporary media landscape because..."
Also, include...
FIVE internet links to relevant research on your text/topic. Make sure they're from different sources, hopefully as academic as possible.
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