Media blog 1 - Mr Halsey

Cultural Industries: Blog Tasks 1) What does the term 'Cultural Industries' actually refer to? Cultural industry refers to the creation, production and distribution of products of a cultural or artistic nature. 2) What does Hesmondhalgh identify regarding the societies in which the cultural industries are highly profitable? Cultural Industries are seen as adding value to society and individuals, as they focuses on intellectual property and are knowledge-based and require a large number of people in their production which will therefore create employment and wealth. They are also highly profitable as they tend to be societies that support the conditions where large companies, and their political allies make money. 3) Why do some media products offer ideologies that challenge capitalism or inequalities in society? This happens because the cultural industries often produce texts that do not support these conditions instead text tend to offer ideologies which challenge capi...

1) What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated? Media regulation is the control or guidance of mass media by governments and other bodies. This regulation, via law, rules or procedures, can have various goals, for example intervention to protect a stated "public interest", or encouraging competition and an effective media market, or establishing common technical standards.The principal targets of media regulation are the press, radio and television, but may also include film, recorded music, cable, satellite, storage and distribution technology (discs, tapes etc.), the internet, mobile phones etc. media regulations gives the population an access to more than one side or view of media as it means that not any one person or company can control the media we get to see read and hear allowing us to gather our own opinions and view of media sources from hearing both sides. 2) ...

MIGRAIN updated index Keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. Not only does this keep the concepts and media terminology fresh in your mind but it  will also highlight if you've missed anything through absence or trips. Your index should now include the following: 1)  Media consumption audit 2) Language :Reading an image - advert analyses   3) Reception theory 4) Semiotics : icons, indexes and symbols 5) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 6) Narrative: Factsheet questions 7) Audience: classification - psychographics presentation 8) October learner response 9) Audience theory 1 10) Audience theory 2 11) Audience theory: Media Effects factsheet You'll have done half of this index already - a quick time-saving tip is to copy the HTML from your original index blogpost and paste it in your new index blogpost. This will give you the first six links and you can add to it from there. Remember, this...