Book description
AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA is fully revised for the current specification with full colour throughout, over 100 images, new case studies and examples. The authors introduce students step-by-step to the skills of reading media texts, and address key concepts such as genre, representation, media institutions and media audiences as well as taking students through the tasks expected of them to pass the AQA AS Media Studies exam. The book is supplemented with a companion website at www.asmediastudies.co.uk featuring additional activities and resources, further new case studies such as music and sport, clear instructions on producing different media, quizzes and tests.Areas covered include:
- an introduction to studying the media
- the key concepts across print, broadcast and e-media
- media institutions
- audiences and the media
- case studies such as Heroes, Nuts, and The Daily Mail
- guided textual analysis of real media on the website and within the book
- research and how to do it
- preparing for exams
- a production guide and how to respond to a brief.
AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA clearly guides students through the course and gives them the tips they need to become proficient media producers as well as media analysts.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- How to use this book
- Introduction
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Part 1: Key Concepts
- 1. Image analysis
- 2. Narrative
- 3. Genre
- 4. Representation
- 5. Media intertextuality
- 6. Media ideology
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7. Media audiences
- Different types of audience
- Why are audiences important?
- How have audiences changed?
- ‘Martini media’
- How is audience consumption patterned and determined?
- Who is the audience?
- ‘Television doesn’t make programmes, it creates audiences’ (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Gendered consumption
- The ‘effects’ debate and moral panics
- The effects of advertising
- Audience participation
- And finally …
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8. Media institutions
- Ownership: commercial media institutions
- Types of ownership: horizontal and vertical integration; convergence
- Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)
- Alternative media
- Manufacturing consent: Noam Chomsky
- Regulation of the media
- Self-regulation and the press: the Press Complaints Commission (PCC)
- The cinema: the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
- Regulation and advertising
- Media imperialism
- Globalisation
- The internet
- Conclusion
- Part 2: Investigating Media
- Part 3: Creating Media
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Figure acknowledgements
- Index
Product information
- Title: AS Media Studies, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2016
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781135867355
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