Specification/Exam Board: AQA
Criteria for Entry: Grade C* or above in GCSE Media
Course Details
Subject Content (Theoretical Framework):
- Media Language
- Media Representation
- Media Industries
- Media Audiences
Study of 9 Close Study Products that cover all forms of media including:
- Audio-visual forms (TV, film, radio, advertising and marketing, video games and music video)
- Online forms (social and participatory media, video games, music video, newspapers, magazines, advertising and marketing)
- Print forms (newspapers, magazines, advertising and marketing)
All products will be considered in the light of the contexts:
- Social
- Cultural
- Historical
- Economical
- Political
Media Debates
Representation
Media Effects
Reality TV
News Values
Moral Panics
Post 9/11 and the media
Ownership and Control
Regulation and Censorship
Media Technology and the digital revolution – changing technologies in the 21st century.
Media Theories
Semiotics
Structuralism and post-structuralism
Postmodernism and its critiques
Politics and the media
Gender and ethnicity
Marxism and Hegemony
Liberal Pluralism
Colonialism and Post-colonialism
Consumption and Production
Audience Theories
Genre Theories
