G325 Section B: Contemporary Media Issues
Section requirements
One question to be answered from six topics. Two questions offered for each topic. 50 marks. 1 hour.
Students must understand contemporary media texts, industries, audiences and debates.
Students need to write academically about perspectives in media and culture, referencing examples, theories and arguments.
Understanding of contemporary issues must contain reference to two media and a range of texts, industries, audiences and debates.
Each topic has 4 prompt questions and students must be prepared to answer an exam question that relates to 1 or more of these prompts.
Reference should be made to the past, present and future in relation to the topic, with emphasis on the contemporary.
We are covering two topics.
1. Media and Collective Identity.
2. Media in the Online Age.
And the two media we are covering are Film and TV.
The key prompt questions for Media and Collective Identity are:
1. How does the contemporary media represent nations, regions, and ethnic/social/collective groups of people in different ways?
2. How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods?
3. What are the social implications of different representations of groups of people?
4. To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated?
The key prompt questions for Media in the Online Age are:
1. How have online media developed?
2. What has been the impact of the internet on Media production?
3. How are consumer behaviour and audience response transformed by online media, in relation to the past?
4. To what extent has convergence transformed the media?
