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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 identiies are historically constructed and formed by colonilaization slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? 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. Instead, Gilroy states that racial difference and racial identities are the product of racial oppression. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? 4) How does Gilroy view di
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Baseline assessment learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in   full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Question 2 is a solid mid-level response but overall I'd say this assessment is most useful as a lesson in the the level you need to reach for a B+  grade this year. 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. Put simply, this is the content you missed in the summer and the knowledge isn't there. Too many errors or lack of evidence from CSP's 3) Question two asked you how  useful  media effects theories are in understanding the audience response to  War of the Worlds . Complete the following: Gerbner's Cultivation theory: useful or not useful? Why? Useful to understand how audiences interpret information. The more audiences are exposed to televised info the more they integrate  i
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OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Audience and Industries

  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? There are Nicki manaj fans are called "The Barbz"  or the KPOP fanbase are all as influential and large as the swifies. 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 3) Do stan accounts reflect Clay Shirky's ideas regarding the 'end of audience'? How?  Swifites which is the audience for Taylor Swift now have the power and strength to do things to certain media companies, producers and influencers in the digital era. We see now a much more widespread harrasement of certain people due to their dislike towards Taylor Swift like Trump or JD vance both poli
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Taylor Swift: Language and Representations

Media Magazine reading Q1:  Taylor Swift is re-recording her old albums  following a dispute over her masters with Scooter Braun, Scott Borchetta and her former record label . Q2: To represent her power in music industry and how she's just not an influencer but a professional director as well. Q3: Instagram and Twitter is the fore front of her showcase of her private life and has developed a relationship with her fans. Q4: Its in Serif text font. She also has showcases of her music videos directed by herself. The pictures are in black and white. She has many links to her shop or music. Q5: She has her social networks in the top right corner of the page. Her clothing is very exposed giving the idea of David Gaunlett that "women are spectacles" and women are looked at by men. Q6: Its mostly promotion of her Eras tour rather than anything about her private life. She mostly uses TikTok for that nurturing of parasocial relationships. Q7: On Instagram its mostly promoting her E
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OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture

 Q1: Through the use of user generated content. Which allows anyone to come up and create their interesting and unique content that is then fed to the consumer and has chances of some success but it is much more harder nowadays due to billions now using the web Q2:Western views like Capitalism has spread throughout continents like Africa, Asia and has spread its ideology mostly everywhere as the internet is mostly   Q3: By continuously accepting sponsors from advertisers and continuing to make money off them they delve in the idea of capitalism due to just buying and buying all the goods you can. Q4: It is an example of Post modernism due to the mix of styles that users use to create all the content they can. It also is much harder to tell what is real somewhat and what is fake. Q5: The content showcased may be dangerous to view for certain demographics like kids or the elderly showcasing content like that can alter their idea of certain topics that may be sensitive so deciding to put
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OSP: Clay Shirky - End of audience

 Q1: The negative dangers of the internet developing is the uprising of hackers/data stealers who can access more information due to the increase in population of the internet. Q2: A government policy that allows users access to platforms or systems with very few constraints or restrictions on their use . I do agree with this concept. Q3: The need for regulations as the future of the internet comes into view the regulation and policy needs to be updated. Q4: Most of the internet needs to be regulated especially social networks like Instagram, Twitter that actively have people with a decent following with racist/ very prejudice views on certain communities. Q5:  Clay Shirky argued audience behaviour has progressed from the passive consumption of media texts to a much more interactive experience with the products and each other. New digital technologies and social media has made connecting and   collaborating  incredible  easy. We want to like, follow, tweet, repost, cross-post, comment,
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Magazine Index

  Magazine: Front cover practical Magazine cover LR: Magazines: Industries the appeal of print and independent magazines Magazines: Gentlewoman Audiences and industries Magazines: Gentlewoman Lang and rep Magazine GQ - Language & Representation Magazine GQ: Aud and Ind
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