Case Studies MEST 3

LO: To understand how to research for my case study

MEST 3
For your exam, you will create your own case study (in pairs) Each case study will be presented the first week back from the Easter holidays They will be compiled into a revision booklet for everyone Case studies must be thoroughly researched in order to have enough information to answer the exam questions

Presentations
Each presentation should be approximately 20-25 mins Remember: focus is representation AND new-media Use of video clips, photos, website links, etc Each presentation MUST include an interactive activity with the class

Presentations
MUST include research involving: Context Theories Specific examples All 3 media platforms (print, moving image, web) Focus on two key areas: representation and new media A critical response

GENRE Questions
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How is the genre adapted and developed between media platforms and over time? How and why does the particular genre appeal to audiences and producers? Are there issues of gender, race, sexuality and age to be considered in relation to the audiences to which the genre appeals? How is the particular genre a product of the context in which it is produced? Is genre still a useful concept in the post-modern world?

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Questions

1. Investigate the texts that you have chosen in relation to production, audience and context 2. Undertake a close comparative textual analysis

Audience participation continued

Consider the following questions: How is the balance of the power between audience and producer influenced by the audiences participation in the production of media texts? How and to what extent is the audiences participation structured by media producers? Does the audiences participation in the construction of media texts produce different representations?

Questions continued
What are the advantages for media producers in constructing texts with a significant degree of audience participation? Are groups that were once excluded from participation in the media now getting a voice? Are there different social group participating in and consuming specific media texts? What is the appeal for audiences in media texts where the audience has participated in the construction?

MEDIA and DEMOCRACY Questions

To what extent does the media operate as a public sphere, enabling the formation of public opinions critical of the government? Does the media encourage the sensationalism and trivialisation of political issues? Which groups are able, and not able, to get their views across in the media and why? What regulation of the media is permissible in a democracy? How has new media shifted the workings of a democracy? What role does the media play in constructing hegemony?

Potential Topics
Childrens programming US/UK Elections terrorism Hip Hop War media ASBOs Documentaries and true life stories Sport football Charities