Audiences: Technology and the impact on consumptiont
In the final lecture of the assessment, we looked at new technologies and the impacts on consumption, focusing specifically (but not...
Audiences: What do people do with media?
This week's lecture focused solely on audiences and their responses, looking at reception studies using a textual analysis in order to...
Representation: Ideology, Discourse and Power
The lecture from last week proved surprisingly easy to understand considering it's audio nature. For me, having the lecture on hand to go...
Censorship, effects, and moral panics: what do the media do to people?
For the fourth lecture of this semester, we looked at media regulation and censorship, along with moral panics (and folk devils). We...
Text: Is Film/TV a Language?
This week we explored the concept of narrative and rhetoric, and what film and television language is. By looking at ways in which we can...
The Political Economy of Film and Television: Production and Consumption
From this week's lecture I found it proved interesting to look at the effects that wider political structures enforced within the UK had...