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MIGRAIN: Ideology

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  Part 1: BBC Question Time analysis Watch this clip from BBC Question Time with Russell Brand and Nigel Farage. The BBC deliberately placed the two against each other and the episode resulted in far more people than usual watching and reacting on social media 1) What examples of binary opposition can you suggest from watching this clip? In this clip you can see the two people talking about the current situation of GP's schools and tax money being talked about and the population increase and how immigration is affecting this and some "corrupt group". However we can see that the man and the woman in the audience is having some sort of disagreement. 2) What ideologies are on display in this clip? Russel appears to have a view in which he thinks the government and other rich people are the reason why they don't want to fund all the facilities for the public and appears to be in sympathy of the immigrants. On the other hand Nigel seems to be against the immigrants and thi

MIGRAIN: Representing ourselves - identity in the online age

  Collective identity and representing ourselves: blog tasks Task 1: Media Magazine article Read the Media Magazine article on collective identity: Self-image and the Media (MM41 - page 6). Our  Media Magazine archive is here . Complete the following tasks on your blog: 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' It talks about how we think that we are the person that we define as ourselves in which is the way we want to be seen an make an impression in others to give that same impression to others. 2) List three brands you are happy to be associated with and explain how they reflect your sense of identity. I would say something along the lines of intel and AMD as they are all some form of computer brand and I use computers a lot. 3) Do you agree with the view that modern media is all about 'style over substance'? What does this expression mean? This implies that people will often look at how things look inste