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  Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). Once you've watched and read the presentation and made notes (you may want to copy and paste key quotes from the transcript, which is absolutely fine), answer the questions below: 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important, and what example does he give of this? He gave an example of a church that allowed its priests and staff to essentially abuse underage boys, sexually assaulting around 100 boys since the 1960s in which no accountability or responsibility for those actions to be punished. Since accountability journalism is growing significantly smaller over the years Shirky argues that as in the given church example, allowing journalists to expose and bring light to such incidents is what he deems a social good. It being diminished means that society isn...

  News Values: Blog task Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 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? British soldier causality in Afghanistan. Despite the far proximity, the fact that a British soldier had died means the cultural proximity has increased exponentially its like seeing one of your own pass away and that brings more attention. 2) What is gatekeeping? Gatekeeping is the process where editors and journalists decide which news stories to publish and which to exclude 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? Selection of Stories Framing Language and Tone Omission Sources and Experts Visuals and Images 4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers...

  Audience 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. Gameplay, Story and Graphics/good visuals. 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims? The Sims can have fandoms who create fan art or mods to the game to enhance their entertainment and love for the game they are very important to the game itself The Sims its almost like the heart of the game it keeps it going and beating and if there are no fans then the game would die. 3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game? They enjoy the various updates and new elements that is added into the game like the pre teens or pregnancy DLC. It keeps the game fresh for them which is import...

  Blog tasks: The decline in print media Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   "TikTok’s reach for news has increased from 2020 (1%) to 2022 (7%). Half of its user base (for news) are aged 16-24."  It goes to show how TikTok was successful in reaching its target audience and bring in a much larger audience in 4-5 years compared to newspaper industry which has mostly failed in attaining that reach. Even using the app TikTok which is pulling in millions of views each post. "Reach of print/online newspapers has seen a decrease from 2020 (47%) to 2022 (38%)." This is an evident reason as to why print newspapers will die in the future not so much online news...

  Paper 2 mock exam: Learner response 1) Type up your  feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). Marks: 45/84 Grade: C  WWW: Good attention on audience uses and gratifications, Good knowledge of CSP and detailed explanations of the CSP . EBI: More detailed analysis of GQ with specific examples, Consider how products do not convey ideologies eg genre, escapism etc, revise regulation, especially for PSBs! Make ethical reference to "cultural codes" 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2? I achieved a C which is one below my target grade (a B), To achieve a grade B I needed 6 more marks to achieve that. If I had done better on question 2 I believe I may have achieved that. These are the grade boundaries we've used, based on real AQA exam grade boundaries (out of 84):   ...