This document discusses the importance of new media in understanding issues like immigration. It refers to initial thoughts on immigration and subsequent learning. New media allows for research using tools like Google, Wikipedia and interactive/convergent media. Old media is described as digital vs analogue. The document asks how new media compares to learning in class and outlines skills learned through new media like research, planning, construction and evaluation using various tools.

1. How important is
new media to me in
understanding
issues, e.g.
immigration. Refer
to you initial
thoughts on the
topic and your
subsequent learning

2. Identity (personal)
• Me = Identity
• Identity according to Woodward is:
• Please add

3. Identity (collective)
• Us and Them = Collective identity
• Collective identity is according to Snow is:
• Please add

4. Difference between old and new
media
• Digital vs analogue
• Interactive/Convergent
• Add definitions of the terms above
• In question number 12, explain the importance of
old versus new media for the class?
• How do these figures compare to you?

5. Mediation
REALITY
TEXT Your
Medium
Radio, Film, Television,
Newspaper, WWW, Social
Television/radio programme, Tweet, Blog post, FB update,
video game, advert, newspaper article, magazine feature etc
World
Radio, Film, Television, Newspaper,
media, Magazine
Advertisement, Video games
WWW, Social media, Magazine
Advertisement, Video Music
The Media may not be successful all of the time in telling people
what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling people
what to think about.
after Cohen (1963)

6. Class survey
• Identify 2 questions where your data is similar
to the class and try and account to for this.
• Identify 2 questions where your data is
different to the class and try and account to
for this.

7. Look at your views of immigration
• These are from October 2012 before studying
the unit

8. Answer the question
• How important was/is new media to me in
understanding issues, e.g. immigration?
• Use theory (Woodward, Snow)
• Use examples (mediums, texts, data)
• Devise argument

9. To what extent do/did you use
new media to support ‘learning’?

10. Learning Media Skills
• Research – google, wikipedia, imdb, YouTube,
Survey Monkey
• Planning – mock up layouts, scripts,
storyboards
• Construction –
InDesign/Photoshop/Dreamweaver/FCE/LiveT
ype
• Evaluation – iWeb, WordPress

11. Learning Attitudes/Beliefs
• Information
• Communication
• Etc

12. Writing
• Answer the question in two sections:
• For school learning
• For out of school learning

13. School Learning
• Theory
1. Research – google, wikipedia, imdb,
• Skills YouTube, Survey Monkey
2. Planning – mock up layouts, scripts,
• Essay writing storyboards
3. Construction –
• Past papers InDesign/Photoshop/Dreamweaver/FCE/Li
veType
4. Evaluation – iWeb, WordPress
• Exemplars

14. Out of School Learning
• Communication with
friends
1. Facebook
• Communication with 2. Twitter
3. YouTube
virtual friends 4. WordPress
5. Flickr
• Communication with
family
• Information – individual
interests