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Henry Jenkins - fandom blog tasks

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Henry Jenkins - fandom blog tasks Factsheet #107 - Fandom Read Media Factsheet #107 on Fandom . Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or log into your Greenford Google account to access the link. Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of a fan? Fans do more than just like or even love a particular media text, ‘true fans’ have a devotion that goes beyond simply  consuming media texts, and is, as Matt Hills argues, part of a person’s identity in much the same way as gender, class and age define who we are. 2) What the different types of fan identified in the factsheet? Hardcore fan, anti-fan and newbie fans. 3) What makes a ‘fandom’? Fandoms are subcultures within which fans experience and  share a sense of camaraderie with each other and engage in particular practices of their given fandom. Fandoms  can be narrowly defined and can focus on something like an ind...
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OSP index

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1) OSP: Clay Shirky - End of an audience blog 2) OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture 3) OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - language and representations 4) OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - audience and industry 5) Baseline assessment learner response 6) OSP: postcolonial theory - Gilroy and diasporic identity 7) OSP: The Voice blog case study
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The Voice CSP: case study blog tasks

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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...
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OSP: Paul Gilroy - Postcolonial theory and diasporic identity

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  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; ...
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Taylor Swift: Audience and Industries blog tasks

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  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 ...
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