Media Blog 2 (Frankly)

  1)  Introduction to Media: 10 questions  2)  Semiotics blog tasks - English analysis and Icon, Index, Symbol  3)  Language: Reading an image - media codes  4)  Media consumption audit  5)  Reception theory - advert analyses  6)  Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions  7)  Narrative: Factsheet questions  8) Psychographics    9)  October assessment learner response 10)  Audience theory 1 - Hypodermic needle/Two-step flow/U&G 11)  Audience theory 2 - The effects debate - Bandura, Cohen  12)  Industries: Ownership and Control 13)  Industries: Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries 14)  Industries: Public Service Broadcasting 15)  Industries: Regulation 16)  Representation: Introduction to Representation 17)  Representation: Feminism - Everyday Sexism & Fourth Wave MM article 18)  January assessment learner response 19)  Representation: Feminist theory 20)  Representing ourselves: Identity in the online age - MM article & Factsheet

  1)   British Film Industry factsheets #132 & #100  2)  Blinded By The Light  case study research   3)  Regulation - BBFC research and tasks

  Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? If modernism is beginning to question authority, then postmodernism is making fun of authority to its face. Postmodernism takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations and expectations and pushes things a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay 'The Death of the Author'? In 'The Death of the Author', Roland Barthes challenged tradition when he said that a writer’s opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else’s. Readers are free to interpret a work however they choose, irrespective of what the creator thinks. 3) What is Metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. It points to the process of its own creation.  4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on