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TRINMEDIA
A Level Media Studies
Unit 1 Section A: News and Online Media
UNIT OVERVIEW
This section consists of two linked in-depth studies that focus on contemporary news in the UK, requiring learners to explore how and why newspapers and their online counterparts are evolving as media products and the relationship between both online and offline news. Learners must select from a list set by OCR.
You will be required to study the following media forms and texts set by OCR:
Two front covers of The Guardian
Two front covers of The Daily Mail
One full edition of The Guardian
One full edition of The Daily Mail
1. Introduction to Newspapers / Conventions
2. News Values
3. Representation and Semiotic Analysis
4. Interactivity, Ownership & Audience
5. Semiotic Analysis of two key texts
6. Audience Theory
7. Online Conventions & Hyper Reality
8. Barthes Myths Theory
9. Hooks and Van Zoonen
10. Paul Gilroy's Representation Theory
11. Freedom of press and the phone hacking
12. Cultivation and Moral Panics
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