Identities - Case Study work

Select a media text from within your case study area – view it and answer the following questions:

Case study Q's

Key Questions: use these q’s to complete your text conclusions

Please note: NOT all of the following q’s will be applicable to every text

The MEDIA’S ROLE and influence in the construction of identities

What identity or identities are being constructed through this text?

How big is the product examined? Think in terms of audience size, media presence, potential impact on society, impact created on other media products

What is the function of the media? Entertain, inform, persuade?

How does the format of the text or type of media help shape the identity messages produced?

What kinds of messages do products within this genre usually produce? Is this product similar or dissimilar?

How do key figures (stars, directors, writers) help shape the identities provided?

What ideas and values

 

Pages 17-21 of the Specification (course outline book from AQA)

AQA-2570-W-SP-15(1).17-21.PDF

ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE - Critical Investigation

Essential Guidance.pdf

NMT task

NMT - INTRODUCTION WORK

Homework:

Investigate ONE of the following and present a podcast or ppt outlining and explaining the topic and referencing the issues and debates around them.

·  The history of the Internet and World Wide Web

·  New Media and the impact of self-scheduling

·  Interactive Media and convergence

·  User Generated Content ~ any current dramatic news story will include UGC

·  Impact of New Media on Radio

·  Podcasts

·  Multimedia Videogames Technology

·  Impact of New Media on Print

·  Newspapers – charging for online content?

·  New Media and Safety (attempts at regulation and debates surrounding release of contributor’s details)

·  New Media and the Music Industry

·  Piracy (which comes into some of the above, including music, gaming and the film industry)

·  Web 2.0

 

 

20 slides or 5 minute voice recording.

Things to consider:

- the nature of the technological development (what specific techniques / innovations / hardware / software was created?)

- history of the technological development

- examples of specific companies / institutions / media brands to

c) benefit from the development

b)be disadvantaged by the development.

- anything else relevant or interesting