Chloe's Media Studies Blog

According to the writer, why might autistic children such as his son, be attracted to minecraft? It teaches basic skills with the use of their creativity. Such as collecting supplies for certain objects to be created. The writer's son was autistic. Which features are included in the educational version of minecraft and how useful do you think they might be as an educational tool? It teaches children simple things that we know of now such as if you put sand in a furnace it creates glass and a sword was made out of iron, it would be stronger than one made of wood. Why, does Bergensten suggest, have copycat versions of minecraft been less successful? The copied versions have been trying to appeal to those who enjoy better graphics then the simplistic blocky textures. What is meant by the 'modding community'? Modding community refers to those who create 'mods' in the game which include texture maps, items, creatures and their own storylines/adventures. These d...

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News values News today is converged and dispersed across a range of platforms with a huge range of sources/ producers including audiences who share the news and alter its meaning by adding their own hyperlinks and comments. News values systematically construct rather than simply accompany the gathering of news. These are not values consciously held by journalists. Most maintain the ideal of achieving objectivity or truth. Galtung and Ruge (1981) These theorists argued that news is structured according to unspoken values, rather than discovered. Frequency This value is to do with the time scale of events perceived to be newsworthy. In pre- web 2.0 days, stories which unfolded daily were flavoured. Now with a much faster news agenda, 24 rolling news channels, online and social, events need to be much more frequent to be favoured in new coverage. Threshold This is the size of the event that's needed for it to be considered newsworthy. Commonly occurring events happening t...

Women presented through the press Sex objects Charlotte Church - 'She's a big girl now... looking chest swell.' Objectification of women I'm a celebrity get me out of here - Press coverage over Helen Flanagan's chest showing Wives and mothers WAG - wife or girlfriend Stereotypes Emphasising the importance of appearance of women. Passive roles Disproportionately appear in passive roles - perhaps as victim of crime- instead of doing something Relative invisibility 3/4 of all front-page articles and 84% of those mentioned or quoted in lead pieces were male Half the population but... 24% of news stories globally about women in 2011, media and gender monitor figures show. And women were focus of 19% of news stories about politics and government in 2010 Women in journalism study showed 78% of front-page articles in British national newspapers written by men, and 84% of those quoted or mentioned are male. Of 84 news websites tracked by Global Media Mon...

Ask readers to write more - good idea as you are gaining free labour through what the audience enjoy doing for a living, thus gaining more profit if the paper sells well. Decrease the price of the paper or make it free - bad idea as decreasing the price will result in less to no profit as you would have to pay for the work of journalists etc and the production of the newspaper itself. Hire more journalists to cover a bigger range of events. Pros- More content from different perspectives and types of writing to discover and read about when published Cons- More money would have to be given out to pay the journalists and the more wanted the more money is lost to pay for content Put more ‘sponsored content’ online and in your paper. Pros-You get paid to advertise a product which may likely apply to the reader and apply to their interests while reading the online paper Cons- People try to get away from ads as over time it can get annoying and the page may become corrupt...

News Corp (1973-2013) (Owned by Rupert Murdoch) News corporation (2010) 21st century fox (2013) Split into 2 companies Tabloid Broadsheet Phone hacking incident News corp: A conglomerate that owns: Financial news services Wireless media (radio inc. Talksport and virgin radio) HarperCollins (Book publisher) New York Post News UK 21st Century Fox: 20th Century Fox Blue Sky Studios   20th Century Fox Television Fox Star Studios Fox Broadcasting FX Networks Fox News Channel Sky plc Endemol Shine Group   20th Television Fox Television Stations National Geographic Partners Fox Sports Networks Hulu   YES Network   TrueX Star TV Fox Digital Entertainment Regency Enterprises   FoxNext Fox VFX Labs Media plurality - many forms of media  Power without responsibility - book about the ownership of oligopolies make it worse

Clay Shirkey Cognitive surplus - excess brain/leftover brain that we can do what we want with it Creativity and generosity in a connected age E.g: Reading a book E.g: Social media Is using snapchat or instagram a good use of our cognitive surplus? Cognitive surplus discusses how the leftover brain that we have is used by whatever means we wish to use it. Piece for the guardian Student life The contemporary society of student life has changed compared to a few years ago and continues to change and manipulate over time. A-levels, taken between the ages of 16 to 18, have changed over time just like GCSEs and university degrees. For example, this year the sixth form/college first years will not have to sit exams in their first year but will take their exams at the end of their second. The A-level choices has increased and shares a better variety of subjects for those to study at sixth form/college. This includes more creative and expressive subjects such as dance, art and...

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