Jaspreet - media blog 1 - exam - Mr Pall

The Voice CSP: case study blog tasks Language and contexts Homepage Go to the Voice homepage and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? - Menu bar - Subscription button - Search bar - Brand logo - Links to social media at the bottom 2) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values and ideologies of the Voice? News, Sports, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Opinion etc - I think it shows a mixture of hard and soft news and it tries to eliminate bias by voicing multiple opinions in that section as well as providing personal identity and diversion throughout the menu bar options. 3) Look at the news stories on the Voice homepage. Pick two stories and explain why they might appeal to the Voice's target audience.  - NHS chief challenges unequal opportunities- This tries to examine unfairness towards the community and challenges it by pointing it out online in a protestful way for chan...

  Paul Gilroy - blog tasks Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or you can access it online here using your Greenford Google login. Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? He has consistently argued that racial  identities are historically constructed – formed by colonisation  slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism. This Factsheet  will be considering his work on race identity and post-colonialism. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Race can be seen as shared biological identities  inherited from previous generations. Gilroy  would argue that race makes the identity of  oppressors and the oppressed seem fixed and  uniform; ...

  Background and audience wider reading Read this Guardian feature on stan accounts and fandom . Answer the following questions: 1) What examples of fandom and celebrities are provided in the article? Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters, Beyoncé’s Bey Hive, Taylor Swift’s Swifties, and Nicki Minaj’s Barbs. 2) Why did Taylor Swift run into trouble with her fanbase?  When the presale for Taylor Swift’s tour turned into a battle royale for fans locked out of Ticketmaster’s system, frazzled Swifties voiced their disappointment. Ticketmaster and Swift quickly apologized, with the singer calling the process “excruciating”. Ticketmaster ended up testifying in Congress in a hearing about consolidation in the ticketing industry. 3) Do stan accounts reflect Clay Shirky's ideas regarding the 'end of audience'? How?  Yes because social media allows fans to create, share and organise content themselves, rather than simply consuming media produced by the music industry. Read this Conversation ...

Taylor Swift: Language and Representations blog tasks Narrative Go to our Media Magazine archive (issue MM79 ) and read the feature All Too Well on Taylor Swift and how she controls her own narrative. Answer the following questions:  1) Why is Taylor Swift re-recording her earlier albums?  With his purchase of the label, Scooter Braun became  the owner of Swift’s masters, which he sold to Disney’s  Shamrock Holdings (a private investment firm run by  the Disney family) in late 2020 on the condition that  he would continue to financially profit from them.  Swift quickly announced her intentions to re-record  her Big Machine albums, which would give her complete  ownership of the records and nullify Braun’s involvement. She did this to regain control and take back what is rightfully hers. 2) Why did Taylor Swift choose to make the short film 'All Too Well'?  In choosing to make the song  into a short film, rather than just a music vi...