Revision

Start with YouTube videos for a brief understanding.
If you are able to explain it under 2 minutes, it’s good. Explain to a class mate too, if they understand it good.
Can you create an analogy ? Yes? Good because it means you have somewhat a level of knowledge that can make you pass.
If not, watch them again.
Then go on and review the books.
Spend 30 minutes reading.
Take 15 minutes break.
When you comeback can you write a summary of the theory? If yes good. If not read more.

Move on to literature. Is there literature challenging that theory? Can you understand it ? Read it for 45 minutes. Take 15 minutes break. Comeback and can you summarise it?

After this process (1 theory) can you write everything that you know without looking at anything? From what it is to limitations? If yes? Good- compare it to all the content you reviewed. You have learned the theory in a short but effective way.

Then move on to your next one.

Let’s wait and see if someone else can add onto this!

oh my god thank you so much, but do you have a youtuber to watch?

What theory do you want to know?
Sometimes is good if you put more specific questions, there is always someone around who will be able to also simplify things for you.

oh sorry about that!
These are all the theories that I study:
Genre Theory - Neale
End of Audience - Shirky
Feminist Theory - Van Zoonen
Media Effects - Bandura
Structuralism - Levi-Strauss
Representation - Hall
Cultivation Theory - Grebner
Theories of Identity - Gaunlett
Postmodernism - Baudrillard
Intersectionality - bell hooks
Power and Media Industires - Curran & Seaton
Semiology - Roland Barthes
That's all! By the way my media studies exam board is OCR

I am aware of Bandura
https://youtu.be/_YBK4LoGBJQ

BTEC health and social care books have some work on Bandura.

I think this YouTuber as a few more videos on some other theories. Really just scope around and you will get allllll the answers. Just be wary that some articles if you use google scholar may have poor quality :3

oh sorry about that!
These are all the theories that I study:
Genre Theory - Neale
End of Audience - Shirky
Feminist Theory - Van Zoonen
Media Effects - Bandura
Structuralism - Levi-Strauss
Representation - Hall
Cultivation Theory - Grebner
Theories of Identity - Gaunlett
Postmodernism - Baudrillard
Intersectionality - bell hooks
Power and Media Industires - Curran & Seaton
Semiology - Roland Barthes
That's all! By the way my media studies exam board is OCR