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  OSP: Clay Shirky - End of audience OSP: Influencers and celebrity Taylor Swift: Language and Represenation OSP: Taylor swift - Audience and Industries Baseline assessment learner response Paul Gilroy - Blog tasks OSP: The Voice CSP _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  Go to   the Voice homepage   and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? 'The Voice' title Today's date Top menu bar with links to: Home, Sport, Opinion, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Faith, Careers, Education, Motoring, Business, and Windrush 70 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? The items on the top menu bar include Home, Sport, Opinion, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Faith, Careers, Education, Motoring, Business, and Wind Rush 70. These topics suggest that The Voice is well rounded and they make sure they cover a wide range of topics. The fact that 'Sport' is second on the list suggests that this is something The Voice cares about a lot and reports a lot of news about it. Furthermore, the way they report news stories is from a black perspective and the section 'Wind Rush 70' highlights their ideologies and val...

  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 identities are historically constructed and formed by colonisation 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? Ethnic ab...

  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 ...

  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 po...