Sukhveen's Media blog 1 (2018)- Miss Fowler

1) Feminism- a movement which aims for equality for women – to be treated as equal to men socially, economically, and politically. It is a movement that is focused not on ‘hating’ men, or suggesting that women are superior. Instead, feminism is focused on highlighting the power and suppressive nature of the patriarchy. Patriarchy-a limitation to women receiving the same treatment and benefits as their male counterparts. 2) hook s published the book to identify the lack of diversity within the feminist movement and highlight the importance of having diversity in the main body of feminism. 3) A spects of feminism and oppression that are the focus for a lot of bell hooks’s work: E ncourages feminists to adopt a wider approach to tackling inequality S uggests that feminists should focus on aspects such as sex, race, class and intersectionality.  This is because many forms of oppression often work in conjunction with each other - causing further oppression that is ha...

1) Grade: A WWW: Some excellent writing, great examples, very well revised, loads of theory, AND synoptic CSPs. EBI: Quite a nuanced conclusion which is good but still needed developing a bit.  2) Q1: Google presenting its smart speaker as a ‘natural’ part of home life will be strongly rejected by audiences concerned with data, privacy and the power technology companies such as Google have in modern western societies. Some audiences may reject the stereotypical gender roles with a mother playing with the two children and no father in shot (presumably at work). This arguably reinforces negative and outdated gender stereotypes. Negotiated readings could include an acceptance of a warm picture of family life – plus the potential usefulness of the speaker – despite concerns over how the device uses data and the growing power of companies such as Google and Amazon. Industry point of view Google represented as unthreatening, safe and a natural part of middle-class famil...

Part 1: Medium article - Is Female Representation in Video Games Finally Changing? 1) Traditionally in videogames, women were represented as " objec tified or “damsels in distress” in many major video games, like the iconic Lara Craft to Princess Peach in the Mario franchise." 2)  42% of the video game demographic is female, indicating that times have changed. 3) R ecent games have signalled a change in the industry and qualities the female protagonists offer: Tomb Raider, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and The Walking Dead series have female protagonists, co-protagonists or otherwise important characters. These games were all released within the past 5 years. These games each have characters who are role models for real women, because they are strong, independent, intelligent, willful and compassionate.  4) Yes, I do agree with this to an extent as you don't ant to be playing or representing somethi...

1) OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks 2) OSP: Teen Vogue - background and textual analysis 3) OSP: Teen Vogue - audience and representation 4) Baseline Assessment learner response 5) OSP: Teen Vogue - industry and social media 6) OSP: Hall and Gilroy - media theory 7) OSP: The Voice - blog case study 8) OSP: The Voice and Teen Vogue news articles (minimum 4 from each) Teen Vogue:         Story 1            Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 The Voice: Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4

Language and textual analysis Homepage 1) News website key conventions : Title Section bar Social media  Trending stories Subscription Colour scheme Videos 'About us' 2) The page design differs for Teen Vogue as its much more minimalist and amateur . They don't have convincing news stories and their whole theme and design doesn't match- colour scheme is conflicting and written articles have spelling mistakes etc. 3) Top menu bar: News Sports Lifestyle Entertainment This is a diverse range of topics, therefore implying that The Voice is able to provide well-rounded content to all their target audiences. Provides their readers an alternative and many perceptions about each topic. 4) News stories: Raheem Sterling named on prestigious Football Black List The joy of six: world champion Hamilton ready to keep pushing Man, 29, found guilty of sexual offences against children How they have presented the news from an angle or ...