Introduction to Media - Final Index

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions

2) Media consumption audit

3) Semiotics blog tasks

4) Language: Reading an image - media codes

5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet

6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions

7) Narrative: Factsheet questions

8) Audience: classification - psychographics presentation notes

9) October assessment learner response

10) Audience theory 1 - Hypodermic needle/Two-step flow/U&G

11) Audience theory 2 - The effects debate - Bandura, Cohen 

12) Industries: Ownership and Control

13) Industries: Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries

14) Industries: Public Service Broadcasting

15) Industries: Regulation

16) Representation: Introduction to Representation

17) Representation: Feminism - Everyday Sexism & Fourth Wave MM article

18) Representation: Feminist theory

19) Representing ourselves: Identity in the online age - MM articles & Factsheet

20) Ideology: BBC Question Time analysis and MM articles 

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