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  Blog tasks: Ideology Part 1: BBC Question Time analysis Watch this clip from BBC Question Time with Russell Brand and Nigel Farage. The BBC deliberately placed the two against each other and the episode resulted in far more people than usual watching and reacting on social media. 1) What examples of  binary opposition  can you suggest from watching this clip? In this clip we see certain examples of binary opposition such as:  -Pro vs Anti immigration -Rich vs Poor  -Left wing (Brand) vs Right wing (Farage)  2) What  ideologies  are on display in this clip? In this clip we can see certain ideologies on display such as:  -Taxing the rich: bankers bonus -Lowering immigration  -Immigration being the reason as to why the UK's economy is doing bad.  -UK's economy doing bad due to big banks and corrupt politicians and accountants.  Embed the video into your blog (as above) and answer these two questions in full paragraphs. Part 2: M...

    1) Type up your feedback in  full  WWW: This is a definite step forward from the last assessment (up 8%) with potential to progress to the top levels. good knowledge of audience theory shown now we need to add exam technique  EBI:  Revise public service broadcasting and industry terminology  Keep working on unseen text analysis (q1) For Q4 you clearly know the theories but need to critically evaluate them and link to the question. Examples for the media will also help. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment.  I think in question one I could have elaborate more of the image but I think for all the questions I needed to be able to example in more depth and give examples especially the 20 marker and how it actually relates to the question.  3) On a scale of 1-10 (1 = low, 10 = high), how much revision and prepar...

  Collec tive identity and representing ourselves: blog tasks Task 1: Media Magazine article Read the Media Magazine article on collective identity:  Self-image and the Media  (MM41 - page 6). Our  Media Magazine archive is here . Complete the following tasks on your blog: 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' We're all involved in constructing an image to communicate our identity. How we perceived ourselves and how we presented ourselves was based on the social constructs that defined the interpersonal relationships within the groups we found ourselves in. Our identity would have been based around aspects of our lives that were constructed outside of our selves; class, religion, gender and thepredetermined roles that were part of the accident of the family we were born into. There was a deliberate move to encourage people to adopt an identity that Edward Bernays...

Feminist theory: blog tasks Create a blogpost called 'Feminist theory - blog tasks' and complete the following tasks on your blog: Media Magazine reading - two articles on feminism and theory Read  Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media  ( MM40 , page 64 -  our Media Magazine archive is here ). This is a great example of sophisticated media analysis and an indication of the level we want to be writing at by the end of the two-year course. 1) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? The two texts provided as examples of the 'male gaze' are Pan Am and Beyonce.  2) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? Texts such as these show that there is a no longer a need for feminism due to the representation of women being independent and working in jobs that are aspirational to some of their audiences however, these texts are mainly sexism in a different ...