1. Media in the Online Age
An Introduction

2. Requirements of the Unit
• Your answer is worth 50 marks (50% of the exam) and
should take you an hour to write.
• In your answer you MUST refer to the past (15% of answer),
contemporary (70% of answer) and make a prediction
about the future (15% of answer).
• You must refer to a minimum of 2 media areas in your
answer.
• Last years questions (choose 1):
• “The impact of the internet on the media is revolutionary”.
Discuss
• Discuss the extent to which the consumption and
distribution of media has been transformed by the internet.

3. Discussion
• What forms of media do you use and why?

4. Task
• Watch the following videos and then use the internet and
your own experiences to;
• create a diagram / flow chart / mindmap or mood board that
suggests how online media has developed over the years.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO1bSakyIPs
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTyTXN_t4rc&feature=rel
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