Media Mr Bush-Exam

  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? They use a guardian story about an English woman who was a victim of a bombing. They list all of the values which can affect and audience, they talk about how the different outcomes and how due to its shock value it stays to be prominent story as this is something that they could not have expected despite it happening. 2) What is gatekeeping? It is filtering information prior to publishing, in other word it is controlling what comes out from the news and the flow of how it comes out to the public. 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? -Bias through selection and omission -Bias through placement -Bias

  1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? He suggest that it is shrinking and that it is necessary, the example they give is the the priest who had sexually assaulted 100 boys and when this was mentioned they took him to the rehab. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Newspapers have power over the adverts, this is because they decide whether they want them in their paper or not, some mentioned companies are Monster and Craigslist. 3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age? Audiences are looking more at the digital news instead of the print as the digital news comes to them straight aw

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption 2022 Read  this Ofcom 2022 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?   Social media is overtaking traditional channels for news among teens. Attitudes towards news generally remain consistent with 2020 Different age groups consume news very differently; They all have a common theme of news and how they are viewed and consumed by different people . 2) Look at the overall summary for adults on pages 7-8. What are the key points on newspapers?  They talk about news and TV and how it is consumed by primarily adults. 3) Look at the statistics on page 13. What do you notice about newspapers and how has it changed in recent years? Newspapers have had the biggest decrease in 2022 compared to the other years an

  1) Type up any  feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). WWW: You saved the best until last- this is you best answer, demonstrating good understanding EBI: More details of the CSPs would be useful Now  re ad through the genuine AQA mark scheme . This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce. Please note that some of the CSPs have changed since last year's exam so we've updated some of the indicative content for our 2024 CSPs. 2) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme: Points that I could have added to answer: Q1:  The iconic look sported by the model is that of the 1950s film star cf. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe - the archetypal post-war blonde

 1)  Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 2)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Language & Representation 3)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 2 - 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

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Good references to post-colonial theory throughout your answer to question 2 EBI: More Explicit focus needed on Q2 Keywords and on the Key theorist 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify three specific aspects from Figure 1 (the Google Home advert) that you could have mentioned in your answer (e.g. selection of image, framing and focus, colour, text etc.) The repetition of the word ‘home’ may disturb audiences who see the advert as an example that nowhere is safe from multinational capitalist giants such as Google. 3) Now use the mark scheme to i dentify  three  potential points that you could have made in your essay for Question 2 (Hesmondhalgh - validity of theory/narrow range of values and ideologies). The way values and ideologies are constructed through the representations in the products. The relationship between recent

 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? Play station has 71% male and 29% female, However, Nintendo Switch has a percentage of 54% male 46% female 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? Hardcore gamers are people who play games a lot and take an interest into the minute details of games and the system they play on. Casual gamers would be people who just play games to pass the time As a result, we can say that hardcore gamers would most likely play Horizon 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play games? Which of these would apply to Horizon Forbidden West? To relax and wind down  To pass the time  To escape from reality for a while  To challenge myself  To complete challenges and puzzles  To intera