Jaspreet - media blog 1 - exam - Mr Pall

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

  Collective identity and representing ourselves: blog tasks Task 1: Media Magazine article Read the Media Magazine article on collective identity:  Self-image and the Media  (MM41 - page 6). Our  Media Magazine archive is here . Complete the following tasks on your blog: 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' Who are you? - We are all involved in constructing an image to communicate out identity, while thinking about who we are and who we want to be or seen as. I think, therefore I am - Society provides constraints for who a person is and how they present themselves and external image was simply a reflection of the individual's internalising of their social position. From citizen to consumer - There was a consumer boom, which encouraged audiences to consider what they want in life rather than only what they need in life to survive. The rise of the individual - The notion of individualism began to take...

  Blog tasks: Ideology Part 1: Media Magazine reading Media Magazine issue 52 has two good articles on Ideology. You need to read those articles ( our  Media Magazine archive is here ) and complete a few short tasks linked to them.  Page 34: The World Of Mockingjay: Ideology, Dystopia And Propaganda 1) Read the article and summarise it in one sentence. Mockingjay  follows a traumatised Katniss Everdeen as she reluctantly becomes the symbol of a violent rebellion against the Capitol, navigating intense personal loss and moral ambiguity in the final battle for Panem. 2) What view of capitalist ideology is presented in the Hunger Games films? The Hunger Games films present a harsh critique of capitalist ideology, framing it as a system driven by extreme inequality, exploitation, and the commodification of human life. The world of Panem is depicted as an exaggerated, dystopian version of modern capitalism, where the elite Capitol consumes resources produced by oppre...