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EXAM QUESTIONS:
CONTENT:
WHAT IS THE SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR PAPER 1, SECTION A?
REPRESENTATION:
//How newsbrands portray events, issues, individuals and social groups - including through selection and combination and use of media language.
//How newsbrands construct versions of reality.
//How do newsbrands choose to represent events, issues. individuals and social groups.
//How and why stereotypes can be used positively and negatively.
//How and why particular social groups in a national and global context, may be under-represented or misrepresented.
//How media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world and how these may be systematically reinforces across a wide range of media representations.
//How audiences respond to and interpret media representations.
//Theories of representation: Hall, Van Zoonen, Gilroy.
//Patriarchal narrative of gender.
//The othering of social groups, e.g. immigrants, the poor, women etc.
AUDIENCES:
//What challenges do 'new' digital technologies create for media regulation.
//Curran and Seaton's ideas about power in industry.
//How newspapers and their different operations target, reach and address different audiences.
//How audiences interpret and respond to newspaper context in different ways.
//How audiences become active prosumers.
//How audiences are grouped and categorised by age, gender and social class, as well as by lifestyle and taste.
//How has the convergence represented by mobile phones and tablets changed the way people consume news?
//Theories of media audiences:
>Media effects, including Bandura
>Cultivation theory, including Gerbner
>Reception theory, including Hall
CONTEXT:
//How the media products studied differ in institutional backgrounds.
//How they use media language to create meaning and construct representations to reach different audiences.
//How they reflect social, cultural and political attitudes towards wider issues and beliefs and also help construct social, cultural and political attributes towards wider issues and beliefs.
//How newsbrands reflect historical issues and events.
//How newsbrands can potentially influence social, cultural and political development. (by using media language to construct viewpoints, messages and values about events and issues.)
//How newspapers/websites/related social media are influenced by social, cultural, political and historical contexts and how they link to other media. (intertextual references)
//How do newspapers reflect the challenges and changes created by the internet.
INDUSTRY AND INSTITUTIONS:
//The overarching relationship between technological change and newspaper production, distribution and circulation.
//The significance of issues of ownership and economic factors.
//The range of each newspaper's print and online content.
//What challenges and opportunities as the internet created and how have different newspapers responded.
//The use of online monetization features such as paywalls, subscriptions and games.
//The content and appeal of each of the set products and how this is used to target, reach and address different audiences.
//How the audience may interpret the same media in different ways.
//The impact of the regulatory framework on the newspaper industry and the impact of online news and social and participatory media on regulation.
CONTENT:
WHAT IS THE SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR PAPER 1, SECTION A?
REPRESENTATION:
//How newsbrands portray events, issues, individuals and social groups - including through selection and combination and use of media language.
//How newsbrands construct versions of reality.
//How do newsbrands choose to represent events, issues. individuals and social groups.
//How and why stereotypes can be used positively and negatively.
//How and why particular social groups in a national and global context, may be under-represented or misrepresented.
//How media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world and how these may be systematically reinforces across a wide range of media representations.
//How audiences respond to and interpret media representations.
//Theories of representation: Hall, Van Zoonen, Gilroy.
//Patriarchal narrative of gender.
//The othering of social groups, e.g. immigrants, the poor, women etc.
AUDIENCES:
//What challenges do 'new' digital technologies create for media regulation.
//Curran and Seaton's ideas about power in industry.
//How newspapers and their different operations target, reach and address different audiences.
//How audiences interpret and respond to newspaper context in different ways.
//How audiences become active prosumers.
//How audiences are grouped and categorised by age, gender and social class, as well as by lifestyle and taste.
//How has the convergence represented by mobile phones and tablets changed the way people consume news?
//Theories of media audiences:
>Media effects, including Bandura
>Cultivation theory, including Gerbner
>Reception theory, including Hall
CONTEXT:
//How the media products studied differ in institutional backgrounds.
//How they use media language to create meaning and construct representations to reach different audiences.
//How they reflect social, cultural and political attitudes towards wider issues and beliefs and also help construct social, cultural and political attributes towards wider issues and beliefs.
//How newsbrands reflect historical issues and events.
//How newsbrands can potentially influence social, cultural and political development. (by using media language to construct viewpoints, messages and values about events and issues.)
//How newspapers/websites/related social media are influenced by social, cultural, political and historical contexts and how they link to other media. (intertextual references)
//How do newspapers reflect the challenges and changes created by the internet.
INDUSTRY AND INSTITUTIONS:
//The overarching relationship between technological change and newspaper production, distribution and circulation.
//The significance of issues of ownership and economic factors.
//The range of each newspaper's print and online content.
//What challenges and opportunities as the internet created and how have different newspapers responded.
//The use of online monetization features such as paywalls, subscriptions and games.
//The content and appeal of each of the set products and how this is used to target, reach and address different audiences.
//How the audience may interpret the same media in different ways.
//The impact of the regulatory framework on the newspaper industry and the impact of online news and social and participatory media on regulation.
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