Work to do !

In the Media A-Z (There are spare copies of this in DF05 on the desk near the front on the left side of the room) read/highlight the following:

Issues/Debates

Representation and stereotyping
Media effects
Reality TV
News Values
Moral Panics
Post 9/11 and the media
Ownership and control
Regulation and censorship
Media technology and the digital revolution – changing technologies in the 21st century
The effect of globalisation on the media
Theories

Semiotics
Structuralism and post-structuralism
Postmodernism and its critiques
Gender and ethnicity
Marxism and hegemony
Liberal Pluralism
Colonialism and Post-colonialism
Audience theories
Genre theories
Use the internet to research these issues/debates and theories if you need further clarification or if you don't have a Media A - Z to hand.

Choose the five issues/debates/theories which apply most to your critical investigation question.

On your blog carefully define each of these five issues/debates/theories.

Then carefully explain how each of these 5 issues/debates/theories applies to your critical investigation.

For Homework (Due 10/11/10) - visit the blogs of four other students in the class. Look at their critical investigation research and question (you should all have posted this information on your blog by now!). Then in the comments section suggest one new issue/debate/theory that you think is relevant to each four students' areas of study. Explain why this issue/debate/theory can be applied to their critical investigation question.




If you have not already done so, apply MIGRAIN and SHEP to the two media texts which will form the main focus of your critical investigation. Post this to your blog by 20/10/10.

By 23/10/10 add to your blog a list of the first 5 texts you have read as research for your critical investigation. Quote all sections of the texts which are relevant to your question and comment on their relevance. Remember to update your bibliography with all the books and websites you have used in your research so far.

Over half term - continue with your research. Use the internet (remember to use the Media Magazine website!!) and text books to find at least 5 more texts (10 in total so far) which are relevant to your question. Post relevant quotations to your blog and comment on their connection to your question. Update your bibliography. Be ready to present all you research on 3/11/10.

Remember to take notes on all the Media Theorists at the media magazine conference on Thursday - much of this may be relevant to your area of study.