NDM News: index

We have now completed our New and Digital Media unit focusing on the news industry. You now need to create an index to organise your revision for the upcoming assessment. 


January assessment

You will have a MEST3 Section B assessment in your first double lesson after Christmas. This will be an excellent opportunity to show the progress we are making towards our Media target grade and also develop the skills needed for the exam in June. You have a huge amount more to write about compared to the baseline assessment in September so we are expecting significant progress.

You need to revise everything you have covered in the Autumn term for New/Digital Media - including all of your weekly NDM stories.

Due: first Monday back

NDM News index

In today's lesson you need to create an index of all of your work this term for New/Digital Media and News. 

This process is an excellent start to your revision for the assessment and will also highlight if you've missed anything through absence or trips. Your index should include the following:

1) Institution: the impact of Google on the newspaper industry
2) Audience and Institution: how news consumption has changed
3) The future of newspapers: Build The Wall analysis
4) The decline of newspapers: the effect of online technology
5) Citizen journalism: Media Magazine article and questions
6) News Values: theory and updating them for digital media landcape
7) Marxism & Pluralism: Media Magazine article and questions
8) Media Conference: notes from speakers
9) Marxism and Pluralism: views and values question
10) NDM Section B essay on blog - consumption and production question
11) Marxism and Pluralism: Alain de Botton on the news - lecture and questions
12) Globalisation: questions and blog task
13) Globalisation: Media Magazine - Google Glass, techno-panics and data mining
14) News on the Tweet report and questions
15) Audience and Institution article and questions
16) Institution case study: NDM and News Corporation

For your index, the text should link to YOUR corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each aspect of the case study quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can catch up with the work and notes and won't underperform in the assessment due to gaps in your knowledge.


NDM story index

You also need to update your separate index of ALL of your NDM stories from the Autumn term. This homework was originally set on Friday 11 September which means you should have a minimum of 30 stories in your index this week. 

Your index should have the story number (starting with your first story back in September as #1), the headline and a link to your blog post for that story.

If you want to see an example of a top quality index, check out this blog post from one of our past students - you need this level of detail in your story index too. (Incidentally, she went on to a get an A in Media - and you can see why).


Important: your two exam indexes need to be completed during the lesson before working on the News Corp case study.