Homework

Just a quick reminder that your homework is due Thursday.

Enjoy.

How to write and format your Bibliography

For your investigation, you'll need to write a bibliography. To get into the middle and top markbands, it will need to be a thorough and properly formatted list of all the primary and secondary resources you have consulted and quoted in your investigation.


To see how to do it, follow this link:

 http://dissertationguru.blogspot.com/2010/03/mla-style-understanding-how-to-write.html

From now on you will need to keep a record of anything you read, see or hear for your bibliography.

I suggest keeping a word document that you copy and paste into. Update it as you find stuff so that when you go to write your bibliography it's just a matter of copying it over.

More on the current media landscape

Read this blog post (and the following comments) for a different view on what media is in the this new media age.

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/04/07/what-is-content-then/

Current Media Landscape

What is the current media landscape?

You'll have to work it out to be able to contextualise your investigation. here's one example.



Here's another, albeit only social networking:

As technology has progressed, the media and consumers have changed. Consumers’ expectations are higher and consumers can become producers. This has lead to wider opinions being aired and institutions being more determined to please audiences in a race to the top or they will not survive. Products become more advertised as consumers share content and links with each other.

Presentation - Due Tuesday 6th July

Presentation


Explain your investigation in a 2 – 3 minute presentation.
 Use photoshop or whatever visual aides you prefer.
1. Identify your text(s).

2. Identify the institution(s) involved.

3. Identify the audience of the text in particular and institutions in general, be specific.

4. Explain the theories and ideologies that you are going to use in your investigation.

5. Explain the debates that exist around your ideas, texts or institutions.
 
6. Outline what you expect to find.

Ideologies in your Critical Investigation

In order to make sure your investigation includes enough academic theories and ideologies to get the best marks, answer these questions as a starting point.

Who has produced the text?



What does it represent?


What does it leave out? – Why?


Hegemony – what dominant view is your text/institution reinforcing?


What concept is being shown, gender, race, religion, social standing, economics etc?


What theorists have explored these issues and how has what they say explain your texts/institution?

Is there any debate in the media about your texts or institutions. For example, if your text is aired on the BBC, there is a constant debate about how the BBC earns and spends its money.
You will need to identify any debates that exist around the texts and outline them in your investigation.

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