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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Audience and Industries blog tasks

  Audience Read  this App Store description and the customer reviews for The Sims FreePlay  and answer the following questions:   1) What game information is provided on this page? Pick out three elements you think are important in terms of making the game appeal to an audience. The game information that is provided on the App Store page is a short description of how the gameplay will be like such as c reate your story, your way. Build your virtual town, family and life! Design and decorate dream homes that show off your interior design skills and personal style. Expand your Sim Town and watch your community grow as you earn more Simoleons. The three most important elements of making the Sims FreePlay appeal to an audience is being able to let you create, customize and build your own city and Sims character in Sims as you are the one who is in charge of it and no one else.  2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory...
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Henry Jenkins - fandom blog tasks

  Factsheet #107 - Fandom Read  Media Factsheet #107 on Fandom .  Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or log into your Greenford Google account to access the link. Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of a fan? Fan are people who follow and enjoy a particular type of media text.  Even if you are not interested in these texts it could be argued that that  we are all ‘fans’ of a media text in the sense that we like them and consume them regularly, but is not the same as being a Fan  of a media text. Fans do more than just like or even love a particular media text, ‘true fans’ have a devotion that goes beyond simply  consuming media texts, and is, as Matt Hills argues, part of a person’s identity in much the same way as gender, class and age define who we are. 2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? Different types ...
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OSP: Final index

  Online, Social and Participatory media index Your index should include the following: 1)  OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks 2)  OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture 3)  OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Language and Representations 4)  OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Audience and Industries   5)  Baseline Assessment learner response 6)  OSP: Postcolonial theory - Gilroy and diasporic identity 7)  OSP: The Voice - blog case study
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OSP: Paul Gilroy - Postcolonial theory and diasporic identity

  Paul Gilroy - blog tasks Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open  Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or you can  access it online here  using your Greenford Google login. Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Gilroy suggests racial identities are historically created from  colonialization,  slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Gilroy suggests regarding the causes and history of racism that racism isn’t caused by race, racism causes  race. Racism is not caused by the clash of two or more races – racism  is not a natural phenomenon. Instead, Gilroy states that racial difference  and racial identities are the prod...
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The Voice CSP: case study blog tasks

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  Language and contexts Homepage Go to  the Voice homepage  and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? *Top menu bar - range of content such as 'hard' and 'soft' news to appeal to the target audience.  * Variety of thumbnails - offers content linked to the top menu bar. * Advertisement - advertisement of book on The Voice History.  *Search icon - ease of finding particular content.  2) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values and ideologies of the Voice? Some of the items on the top menu bar are sports, news, lifestyle, entertainment, competition, opinion and faith. This tells us about some of the dominant ideologies of The Voice is that they try to cover all topics of social life there is and that they allow people to voice their opinions as they have a section called 'opinion' on their menu bar which gives people that freedom to share their ...
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