Welcome

Welcome to Mr Morrow's A Level Media Blog.

Here you'll find links to media blogs and websites that will help you get the best out of A Level Media Studies at Kidbrooke School, links to students' blogs and lesson resources to keep you up to date.

Thursday, 8 July 2010

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.

Friday, 2 July 2010

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/

Thursday, 1 July 2010

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.

Wordle: New media landscape

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.