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Categories: Key Concepts, New Media, Convergence, Digital Media, Internet, New Technologies, We Media, Other Topics, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages
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History of the Internet 1 | The Computer
The history of the internet is not a straight-forward narrative since it was not invented by one person or any group of people. The internet emerged out of the combination of three distinct inventions: computers, networks and...
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Categories: Key Concepts, New Media, Convergence, Digital Media, Internet, New Technologies, We Media, Other Topics, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages
In this section we will look at some of the ways the internet can be studied. The first part looks at some of the impacts the internet has had on society, the second part examines some of the metaphors that have been used to make sense of what the internet is, and the third part looks at three ways in which the internet may be analysed through institutions, audiences and textual analysis.
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[ read full article ] »The Internet & World Wide Web »
Categories: Key Concepts, New Media, Convergence, Digital Media, Internet, New Technologies, We Media, Other Topics, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages
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Definition
The above picture may look like an exploding galaxy or a human cell magnified many thousands of times but it is actually a map of the internet. The internet (short for interconnected network) can be...
[ read full article ] »YouTube Case Study »
Categories: Advertising, Viral Advertising, Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A2, Key Concepts, Institutions, Censorship & Regulation, New Media, Digital Media, Internet, Social Networking, New Technologies, We Media, Hot Entries, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages
The idea of YouTube is a successful and iconic one – commercially and culturally ranking with ‘Zuckerberg’s’ Facebook, Google, Wikipedia and the loaf of bread as a pre requisite for modern living (as far as the target audience are concerned). If you are not 12-17 as the dominant viewing age group are (but very much not the exclusive age group) or indeed wheat intolerant then maybe these bastions of culture and modern society are not...
[ read full article ] »2012 AQA A2 Media Studies Scheme of Work »
Categories: Advertising, Viral Advertising, Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A2, Key Concepts, Institutions, Censorship & Regulation, Representation & Stereotyping, Magazines, Image Analysis, Masculinity in Men's Magazines, New Media, Convergence, Internet, Social Networking, New Technologies, We Media, Hot Entries, Theory, Gender Theory, Representation Theory, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages, YouTube
MEST3 Critical Perspectives
MEST4 Research and Production
2012 Section B Topics: Representation and New Digital Media (3 Media Platforms) - 30 Week Scheme of Work
Overview
- AQA A Level Media Studies Overview
Scheme
- 2012 AQA A2 Media Studies SOW.doc
Concepts
- Analysing Text, Stimulus Material - Audiences
- Regulation and Censorship
- Critical Investigation - Viral Marketing
- Skills Development - Planning and Production
- Representation of Masculinity...[ read full article ] »
Music: Industry Websites & Magazines Revision Course »
Categories: Consultancy, Media Studies Consultancy, Courses, GCSE, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE Media Studies, Magazines, Music Press, Music, Fan Websites, Revision, Revision Courses, GCSE Revision, Staffroom, Training & Revision, Hot Entries, Website Analysis, Web Pages, Workshops, MediaEdu Student & Teacher Workshops
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Our practical workshops usually include:
- Investigating genre conventions (cards and games)
- Starter activities, ‘odd one out’ / ‘top n tail’ / connective thinking
- Loop cards with key facts
- Loop cards with relevant theories
- Carousel activities ‘add facts’ and move on….
- Carousel activities…making a storyboard…and move on…
We ensure that students get to know the exam structure,...
[ read full article ] »Deconstructing Web Pages »
Categories: Advertising, Viral Advertising, Courses, GCSE, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE Media Studies, Hot Entries, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages
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Deconstructing Website Pages.doc
The main point with websites is that they can be deconstructed like any other media form – the basic principles of Print Media (Magazines and Newspapers) apply in that a fundamental audience appeal is constructed from layout and design with the key fact that websites have their own conventions.
The Tabloid (see below) is the closest form of traditional media that compares with the...
[ read full article ] »A History of Online Social Networking »
Categories: New Media, Internet, Social Networking, History of the Internet, Other Topics, Website Analysis, Social Networking Analysis, Web Pages
In this section we will look at the brief history of online social networking in the form of brief biographies of the most popular sites.
1995 Classmates.com
The site that has the distinction of being first social network site is generally regarded as Classmates.com created in 1995. This was an American precursor to the UK’s Friends Reunited site (1999). The site was a way for ex-students of American schools or colleges to contact their...
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Music: Industry Websites & Magazines Revision Course »
Categories: Consultancy, Media Studies Consultancy, Courses, GCSE, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE Media Studies, Magazines, Music Press, Music, Fan Websites, Revision, Revision Courses, GCSE Revision, Staffroom, Training & Revision, Hot Entries, Website Analysis, Web Pages, Workshops, MediaEdu Student & Teacher Workshops
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Programme Details
Our practical workshops usually include:
- Investigating genre conventions (cards and games)
- Starter activities, ‘odd one out’ / ‘top n tail’ / connective thinking
- Loop cards with key facts
- Loop cards with relevant theories
- Carousel activities ‘add facts’ and move on….
- Carousel activities…making a storyboard…and move on…
We ensure that...
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