Wednesday, December 17, 2014

13D: Christmas homework

Well done on a great term - some fantastic discussions and real progress made with some challenging concepts.

As discussed in the lesson, your homework over Christmas is as follows:

1) Revise everything we've learned this term on New and Digital Media for your MEST3 Section B assessment on Friday 9 January.

Use the lesson PowerPoints to help you revise, by going through each slide/linked article and making summary notes/mindmaps then testing yourself...
The News Case Study: Murdoch/NewsCorp, UGC, gatekeepers, news agendas, Galtung & Ruge, Marxism/pluralism, democratisation, globalisation, conglomerates...
Some key quotes/ideas (Briggs/Burke, Castells, Gutenberg/Internet Revolution, Keen, Pareto's Law...)

2) Update your NDM story index up to 26 stories - the number you should have by the end of the Christmas break. If you are missing any, go back and get more stories until you have 26 fully read, linked and discussed (remember: title, link, image, stats, summary, opinion). If you can't find them, scroll back through our Twitter feed - there are plenty there.

3) Write a quick 20 minute blogpost summarising your notes from the Media Magazine conference this week. Quotes such as Jon Snow's "golden age for journalism" will be invaluable when it comes to the exam.

Due: Wednesday 7 January

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