Scly3- aqa - mass media

Could you offer some notes on New Media and Globalisation & Popular culture please?

Good luck everyone!! Don't worry too much or else nerves will get the best of you. Just relax and keep doing last minute revision (am I the only one who ends up remembering more from last minute revision than I remember from the whole year?) haha.

Let's hope the examiners are kind this year

I thought the paper went really well, then I got out and realised I'd forgotten to use the Item, I don't think I even read it! Any idea how much that will cost me in marks? Can anyone remeber what the item said? If I'm lucky I'll have talked about what was in the item without realising...

What did people write for the news question?


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Don't worry I didn't use the item too but I did use the term social problem which was in the item. The item was very brief and wasn't exactly detailed so I don't think you'll lose marks anyway.

I'm thinking social class or maybe even age.... Sexuality isn't enough for a 33 mark question I think

The socially constructed new question? I wrote about:
-Marxism - Miliband proletariat serving the bourgeoisie, how editors/journalists tend to be middle class therefore reflecting their own values and possibly ignoring the middle class - too poor to support capitalism
- Pluralism - how they believe media is diverse and caters for all tastes therefore disagreeing with marxism, free market economy - news which people believe and agree with will do well, and those which do not fail.
- Social constructs - such as how the diet of trivia and celebrity culture takes over news - i mentioned how at the weekend the murder of a 15 year old girl appeared to be overshadowed by a 'TOWIE' rumoured engagement. and how the daily mail feed the diet of trivia by concentrating more on celebrities.
- Practical Constraints REALLY briefly ran out of time so just jotted down a few points about how time/demand influence the construction of news and briefly about davies 'churnalism'

The last question i was running out of time and panicked a bit, i hope i did alright though - i only need a C for my Uni place

for the news question I basically talked out of my ass, it got me an A before so hoping it went well, I talked about the different perspectives on news selection and ownership, news values, legislation, consumer journalism or w/e it's called and I talked about the implications of the public in stories I dunno, I googled it and I think I was the right track, I hurt my finger a couple of days ago and i have slice the skin under neath my nail so maybe they will take pity on me for my scruffy writing.

I pretty much did the same but included news values. I talked about the journalists backgrounds aswell. But I got pluralism confused with post modernism


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