A-Level Media Exam Blog 2- Mr Pall

Part 1: Clay Shirky lecture Go to the   Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students . The video is also available on YouTube below but the Nieman Lab website has a written transcript of everything Shirky says.  Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). Once you've watched and read the presentation and made notes (you may want to copy and paste key quotes from the transcript which is absolutely fine), answer the questions below: 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Clay Shirky argues that accountability journalism is important as it holds powerful individuals and institutions responsible for their actions. This is important as we see through the example of a priest being a paedophile and ...

  Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020  plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? Brexit, Buckingham Palace, Boris Johnson (Conservative Party Leader), Royal family (Camilla and Queen Elizabeth).  2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? Some dominant ideologies that are presented in front of the Daily Mail is that it is heavily right winged. This is because of the continuous repetition of talking about Brexit and showing pictures of Boris Johnson who back then was the leader of the conservative party. The audience are positioned to respond to the stories shown especially on the front page of the Daily Mail in a positive way...

Read   Media Factsheet 76: News Values   and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? The higher a news story scores on this list, the more likely it is to become news. Using the  example pictured, Afghanistan, in terms of geographical proximity, is far away from the  U.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British  audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’. On an intensity scale, the first female  officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. The ongoing war in  Afghanistan is a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in that fact that  deaths, even though inevitable, ...

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   1. TikTok’s reach for news has increased from 2020 (1%) to 2022 (7%). Half of its user base (for news) are aged 16- 24. 2.  Attitudes towards news generally remain consistent with 2020 (across measures such as quality, accuracy, trustworthiness and impartiality) for TV, radio, social media, newspapers and online, with TV performing strongest, and social media performing least well. 3.  Reach of print/online newspapers has seen a decrease from 2020 (47%) to 2022 (38%). The decrease is driven  by decreases in print (online newspaper reach remains steady) which have likely been exacerbated by the  pand...

Videogames: Final index 1 )  Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 2)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Language & Representation 3)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Audience & Industries 4)  Learner response: OSP assessment 5)  Videogames: Women in videogames &  Further feminist theory 6)  Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Language & Representations 7)  Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Audience & Industries  

  Audience Look at  this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience  and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles? Statistics that I can find for the number of males that play on the PS5 is a significant amount more compared to females (71%-29%), Xbox (68%-32%) but for playing on a Nintendo Switch it is almost at an evenly spilt between males and females at 54% for males and 46% for females.  2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? The difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers is for 'hardcore' gamers these are people who say they take video games seriously, or play competitively meanwhile 'casual' gamers are people who just play video games to have fun and pass time by. Since HFW is a PlayStation 5 game I would say that this game is meant for 'hardcore' ...