archie a level media exam

  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? You can find a top menu and recent news invents on the front page linking to news websites key conventions  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, sport, lifestyle, entertainment this shows the voices content as also celebrational to the black community  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.  Top Jamaican diplomat and fundraiser to support with memorial, this celebrates and shows support to people in the black community   4) How is narrative used to encourage audience engagement with the Voice? Apply narrative theories (e.g. Todorov equilibrium or Barthes’ enigma codes) and make specific...

  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 colonialization, slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Here Gilroy is saying that racism isn’t caused by race, racism causes race. Racism is not caused by the clash of two or more races – racism is not a natural phenomenon. Racial  identities are caused by historical conflicts that have brought different  groups into opposition. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? Ethnic absolutism is a line of thinking which sees humans  are part of different ethnic compartments, with race as the basis of  human differentiation. Gilroy is opposed to ethnic absolutism as it is counter to his  argument that racism causes race. 4) How does...

  1) Type up your feedback in   full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). 23\40 grade =c WWW: good overall knowledge of industries with references to how both magazine csps are adapting to digital media constrains  EBI: good knowledge of the different types of media effect theories but you need to explain how useful they are to the csp 2) Focusing on the BBC  Newsbeat  question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you  didn't  include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas. Newsbeat informs Radio 1 listeners about the news – important events going on in the UK and around the world including breaking news and developing stories. This includes politics, economics, crime, sport and entertainment The news topics in a Newsbeat bulletin tend to offer entertainment to listeners. Although the top story will usually be serious (hard news) ever...

  Audience 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? In the decades since, it’s become a catchall term for people who base their entire online existence around a specific fandom: 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  3) Do stan accounts reflect Clay Shirky's ideas regarding the 'end of audience'? How?  Stan accounts are like roving reporters in that they comment on the action live and as it happens,  Stans don’t just root for their i...