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Blog feedback and learner response

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  WWW: Jasneet, your start to Year 12 Media Studies and your blog work is off to a great start, keep up the good work. Your own media consumption demonstrates your ability to be reflective where you state you want to widen your exposure through exploring more newspapers and podcasts - let me know how you get on with that. Prison Break is one of my all-time favourite TV shows too! What is your strongest piece of work?   my strongest piece of work would be my reception theory as i clearly identified the preferred reading,negotiated reading and oppositional reading for the rbk 50 cent poster and i also analysed the readings using my own type of poster What is your weakest piece of work? my weakest piece of my work would probably be my media consumption as currently I don't consume a wide variety of media which limits the task and I think that's my weakest work What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? I need to do extra readings so tha...
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Blog tasks: Ideology

  Media Magazine issue 52 has two good articles on Ideology. You need to read those articles ( our  Media Magazine archive is here ) and complete a few short tasks linked to them.  Page 34: The World Of Mockingjay: Ideology, Dystopia And Propaganda 1) Read the article and summarise it in one sentence The article says that Mockingjay shows how The Hunger Games uses media and propaganda to criticise capitalist society and show how power can be controlled or challenged. 2) What view of capitalist ideology is presented in the Hunger Games films? Capitalism is shown as unfair and exploitative, with the rich Capitol controlling and benefiting from the poor districts while keeping them powerless. 3) What do the Hunger Games films suggest about the power of the media to shape and influence ideological beliefs? The films suggest the media is very powerful because it can manipulate people’s beliefs through propaganda and entertainment, but it can also be used to encourage re...
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