Revision

• We are going to revisit the case studies that we have looked at so far and we are going to narrow down some examples to memorise for the exam.

• You will make links from these examples to contemporary media issues, media language and theory.

• This will be presented as a poster.

Look at the article and highlight two or three quotes or examples from the text that you think are significant and that we can use to make links to:

-Key concepts

• Genre• Representation• Audience• Institutions• Narrative

-Theory -Contemporary issues

‘These migrants are like cockroaches…’

‘Rescue Boats? I’d use gunships to stop

migrants’

‘do I feel pity? Only for the British drivers…’

• Next to an article about Campaign ‘Operation Black Vote’ with a large, close up image of Sol Campbell promoting the campaign with his face painted white.

Q: Do you think that this positioning within the pages of the Sun was deliberate?

When writing in the exam:

Katie Hopkins wrote an insensitive article on the Calais migrant crisis in the Sun newspaper...

The provocative headline ‘Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants’ appeals to the 50 and over, white, male working class demographic. The use of military language implies a hard line approach to the problem. This reinforces the Sun’s ideologies of Britain, glorifying the war era as possibly experienced by the older target audience and appealing to their right wing political ideologies.

• Choose two or three of the strongest resources that you have explored for that case study. Consider examples from conflicting points of view, different producers (established/independent etc)

• In your group, narrow the resources down to one or two pieces of evidence per media text.

• Annotate and explain how this conforms to or challenges theory, media language, key concepts and contemporary media issues

• Lee Rigby• Migration• Brexit• Young female identity• Inauguration• Women’s march• Post truth