Abdiillah Media Exam

  Blog tasks: Representations of women in advertising The following tasks are challenging - some of the reading is university-level but this will be great preparation for the next stage in your education after leaving Greenford. Create a new blogpost called 'Representations of women in advertising' and work through the following tasks. Academic reading: A Critical Analysis of Progressive Depictions of Gender in Advertising Read  these extracts from an academic essay on gender in advertising by Reena Mistry . This was originally published in full in David Gauntlett's book 'Media, Gender and Identity'. Then, answer the following questions: 1) How does Mistry suggest advertising has changed since the mid-1990s? More ambiguity.  2) What kinds of female stereotypes were found in advertising in the 1940s and 1950s? 3) How did the increasing influence of clothes and make-up change representations of women in advertising? 4) Which theorist came up with the idea of the '...

   1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW-I started my exam off well during the initial first questions in which i scored well in, however EBI: I began to fall of during the later questions, especially in question 4 where I need to go into more depth and avoid surface level analysis  2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. The image of Stormzy. He's not looking at the audience, which is unusual for tour posters. This might show vulnerability, breaking away from the typical strong, tough black male image. However, he's also bare-chested, which could bring back the idea of black men being sexualised or overly masculine. The lighting on his face and chest highlights this mix of strength and vulnerability. 3) On a scale of 1-10 (1 = low, 10 = high), how ...

  1)  Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2)  Media consumption audit 3)  Semiotics blog tasks 4)  Language: Reading an image - media codes 5)  Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6)  Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 7)  Narrative: Factsheet questions 8)  Audience: classification - psychographics presentation notes 9)  October assessment learner response 10)  Audience theory 1 - Hypodermic needle/Two-step flow/U&G 11)  Audience theory 2 - The effects debate - Bandura, Cohen   12)  Industries: Ownership and Control 13)  Industries: Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries 14)  Industries: Public Service Broadcasting 15)  Industries: Regulation 16)  Representation: Introduction to Representation 17)  Representation: Feminism - Everyday Sexism & Fourth Wave MM article 18)  Representation: Feminist theory 19)  Representing ourselves: Identity in th...

Media Magazine  1) Summarise the questions in the first two sub-headings: What is networked feminism? Why is it a problem? Networked feminism is a new wave of feminism that tackles problems found on and outside the internet using the internet, it is a problem as the internet can provide a platform for inequality rather than a platform for marginilised voices. 2) What are the four waves of feminism? Do you agree that we are in a fourth wave of ‘networked feminism’?  1st wave: Suffragettes movement in the early 20th century 2nd Wave: 1960s-80s 3rd wave: 1990s-2000s- Focussed on reclaiming femininity 4th wave:  2000s-current- Internet age 3) Focus on the examples in the article. Write a short summary of  EACH  of the following: Everyday Sexism, HeForShe, FCKH8 campaign, This Girl Can. Everyday sexism: A campaign collecting day-to-day experiences of sexism, which raises awareness. He for she: A programme advocating for men to be more aware and involved in sexism bei...

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Semiotics blog tasks 4) Language: Reading an image - media codes 5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 7) Narrative: Factsheet questions 8) Audience theory 1 9) Audience theory 2 10) Ownership and control 11) Cultural Industries 12) Public service broadcasting 13) Industries: Regulation 14) Representation  15)  Introduction to feminism 16) Feminism and gender theory 17) Representation: Feminism: Fourth wave feminism 18) Representation: Feminism theory 19) Representing ourselves: Identity in the online world 20) Ideology: MM articles  

  Collective identity and representing ourselves: blog tasks Complete the following tasks on your blog: 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' Advertising and Marketing: This created a new wave of ideaology, as now the media has begun to tell what people needed and wanted which revolutionalised how consumer goods were made. Fashion, hair, and makeup have all been made increasingly important as the media puts a pressure on image. This is due to during the later 20th century, people began having a stronger sense of self and felt the need to express themselves  2) Do you agree with the view that modern media is all about 'style over substance'? What does this expression mean? I resonate strongly with this statement, as I believe most people today to things purely to boost their own image. An example of this is on social media, people post things that they beleive will postively improve their image. 3) E xpla...