1. Revise all the theorists we have looked at in class (these can be
found on my blog/your blogs/ online) and write their names/
their ideas and quotes into a table, along with an case studies
that their theories can be applied to.These can be theories that
we have also covered in other units too.
Name Theory Case study
Stuart Hall Encoding/ decoding Quadrophenia
Misfits
Web 2.0
2. Use creative blogging tools to create a
pictogram which shows how theorists that we
have studied are similar or offer differing points
of view.
I want you to establish links and relationships
between them all
3. On aWord document, write down 3 things that
you would like to know more about/
understand / revise.
Pair up and give your questions to another
person.
The other person researches your questions
and will then have to teach you the information
6. In pairs, look at your given exam question. Give an
explanation or an argument which answers the question.You
will then move to the next question and write next to the
argument a case study to illustrate the argument written.
You will then move onto the next question and write a media
theory that can be applied to the case study and link it to the
original point.You will need to do this for each number.
Structure of essay plan
1. Answers question in relation to a historical perspective
2. Answers question in relation to contemporary studies
3. Contemporary
4. Contemporary
5. Contemporary
6. Future perspectives
7. “Media representations are just
reflections of reality, not
constructions or distortions.”
Discuss with reference to one or
more group(s) of people.
8. Analyse the impact of media
representation on the collective
identity of one or more
groups of people.
9. Analyse the ways in
which at least one
group of people is
‘mediated’.
