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A-Level Media Exam Blog 2- Mr Pall

OSP: Final index

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November 10, 2024

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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