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The Sims CSP - Audience and Ind

  Read  this App Store description and the customer reviews for The Sims FreePlay  and answer the following questions:   1) What game information is provided on this page? Pick out three elements you think are important in terms of making the game appeal to an audience? The three elements that make a game appeal to an audience. Story, Characters and gameplay. 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims?  It allows the gamer to mod their game. Introducing completely new and different elements into the video game. 3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game?  The fanbase and community that the game has. Participatory culture7  Read  this academic journal article - The Sims:  A Participatory Culture 14 Years On . Answer the following questions: 1) What did The Sims designer Will Wright describe the game as? The player creat...
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Newspaper: Index

Daily news story Newspapers: The decline in print media Newspapers: News Values Newspapers: The future of journalism Newspaper:Regulation Newspapers: Daily Mail & Mail Online CSP Newspapers: The Guardian CSP _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Newspapers: The Guardian CSP

The Guardian CSP: Blog tasks Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Guardian newspaper and website.  The Guardian newspaper and website analysis Use your own purchased copy plus the notable front pages above to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine.  1) What are the most significant front-page headlines seen in the Guardian in recent years? Their Brexit Cover. Another cover is Phone hacking. scandal which brought about the Leveson Inquiry. Finally, Boris Johnson's Partygate scandal 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Guardian? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? They are very supportive of Labour and oppose the Conservatives. However, the Guardian is even sometimes critical of Labour, especially with their recent tax cuts on benefits for disabled people. Have enraged supporters of Labour as this tax cut is very opposed of the liberal ideology. 3) How do the Guardian ...
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Newspapers: Daily Mail & Mail Online CSP

  Daily Mail and Mail Online CSP: Blog tasks Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the Daily Mail and Mail Online. Daily Mail and Mail Online analysis  Use your own purchased copy or  our scanned copy of the Brexit edition from January 2020 , plus the notable front pages above, to answer the following questions - bullet points/note form is fine. 1) What are the most significant front-page headlines seen in the Daily Mail in recent years? "Enemies of the people" The Daily Mail deliberately singling out three judges for their actions against Britain leaving the EU. Quite an aggressive front page, which received a decent amount of complaints, but nothing was ever done. 2) Ideology and audience: What ideologies are present in the Daily Mail? Is the audience positioned to respond to stories in a certain way? The Daily Mail is politically very far right on the political scale. They represent economically and socially conservative views, whether th...
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Newspaper:Regulation

  Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? There were around 130 staff at the newspaper peak. Keith Perch said he saw the newspaper in 10 years as  if it is still print it will be weekly, extremely expensive, and have a very small circulation: if it is online only- it wont make much money which means employing less people. 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? He regards the incident as abhorrent and not in the standards that newspapers should have. However he also says this isn't a cause for regulation but the hacking is illegal activity that the police should handle.   3) What does IPSO ...
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