archie a level media exam

  Audience Look at  this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience  and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles?   PlayStation 5 (68% male; 29% female) and Xbox Series X|S (68% vs. 32%) have the highest proportion of male compared to female gamers. 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? Hardcore gamers is taking it seriously and wanting to be competitive and casual is playing the game for fun but has other interests and I think casual gamers would play HFW due to its story  3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play games? Which of these would apply to Horizon Forbidden West? To relax, to pass the time, to escape from reality, to challenge, to interact with gamers, to have an emotional connection and I think an emotional connection may be a reason for playi...

1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? The higher a news story scores on this list, the more likely it is to become news. Using the  example pictured, Afghanistan, in terms of geographical proximity, is far away from the  U.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British  audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’. 2) What is gatekeeping? Gatekeeping is the process of filtering information prior to dissemination. 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? -Bias through selection and omission -Bias through placement -Bias by headline -Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles -Bias through use of names and titles -Bias by choice of words 4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published? Some critics argue that the ...