News

Monday 11th September 2023

Print News

LO: To explore printed news and the theoretical framework.

What are the issues of ownership on the way producers report events, individuals and social groups?

What is the impact of technological change on the ways in which news is produced and distributed to audiences by owners?

What is the impact of digital convergence of offline/online content?

How is the news regulated? The independent press standards organisation is an independent regulator of news and magazine in the UK, they hold news and magazines accountable for their actions.

1- Each product released will target a different audience depending on their interest, as an example a car magazine compared to a beauty magazine, you would expect a different audience.

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3- Audiences can be targeted with imagery, text, font and interest (what the newspaper is actually about).

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Media language online to print are different, with online you have to consider editing, camera, sound and mise en scene but with print you consider layout, typeface, image, masthead and other print related things such as puff.

Tabloid expectations: Colour, large imagery, lighthearted topics, shorter articles, smaller pages, slang and puns,  cheaper, 

Broadsheet expectations: serious topics, more news, larger pages, more expensive,

Tabloid magazine audience analysis:

The magazine contains big bright imagery with large typeface and fonts, we can tell this tabloid is targeted at poorer young audience by the usage of slang 'hols for 9.50' 

Tuesday 12th September 2023
LO: To explore the purpose and process of the printed news industry

Production of a news paper has many different producing factors to consider, this can be the size of the newspaper, the target audience for the newspaper, the amount of trained staff, 

Distribution is the handing out of these newspapers, it can be expensive to do this therefore there are some ways to minimise costs, such as printing locally and being online instead of real life. Why are they expensive? Because they have to be transported and it needs to be in outlets early in the morning. 

Marketing, promotion is done by advertising, exclusive interviews, synergy deals with other companies. Circulation is the obtainable amount of newspapers, not sold.

Ownership

Who owns the daily mail? Lord Rothermore. A cross-media converged conglomerate 

Who owns the Guardian? The Scott Trust, 

The July average daily circulation for the daily mail was 745,529

1980s Computers, printers, and dtp programs

Effects: writing and designing was made easier. 

1990s The Internet

Effects: Growth of newspaper companies could be able to grow.

2000s Broadband, web 2.0, smartphones and tablets, hd digital cameras, apps                                                                         Effects: Online is more of a common space to access things nowadays.

Monday 18th September 2023

LO: To explore the news values of printed news

Press agencies give the factual information, this information is then altered by newspapers on their values, left wing or right wing.

The editor is a gatekeeper, he's responsible for releasing information like filtering, selecting or omitting stories depending on their appeal. Editors also have a responsibility of protective coverage which is withholding information that can potentially be harmful to the public/powerful people or could impede a legal investigation.

elite person

negativity

unexpectedness

meaningfulness

composition

elite person

composition

negativity

The image 

Tuesday 19th September 2023
LO: To explore the political bias of printed news

Barthes: The denotations are that we can see a man with long unkept hair, shirt buttoned down a lot, a long thin chain, sunglasses, greyish beard. When we investigate further into this newspaper we can see that 'sex claims' which could connotate

Free press and freedom of speech are often covered by the same law

fourth state: news was protected the public from decisions made by the wealthy or powerful people which could influence policy or outcomes

plurality is multiple viewpoints maintained in the news, owners cant reduce the plurality

homogenous - singular, similar and indistinguishable 

We can see the political bias by the conservatives and the labours, the guardian is heavily criticising him calling him desperate, deluded and that he is clinging onto power, the conservatives claim the opposite, he stares down the mutiny, down claiming that hes more powerful because he has the high-ground. The image from the right side have a close up of him making it seem like hes more signifant because the picture is bigger whereas in the guardian hes smaller and theres a door and hes just leaving his house or something.

 The left side uses a unnatural image

Levi straus's binary oppositions play part in this, we can tell from the headline and the imagery instantly without any actual deep analysis, the left side imagery has an unnatural image of theresa may whereas the in right side newspaper the image of theresa may we can see that she is posed with lots of people supporting her in the back. We can also look at the text we can see 'lies damned lies and theresa may' from the left side newspaper which means the newspaper editor and owner think what she's doing isnt correct, whereas again the right side are completely the opposite claiming that shes 'reigniting the british spirit'. This demonostrates levi straus's theory which is everywhere in the world contains good vs bad. The context to these newspapers is that one is left wing and one is right wing, the audience expectations for these newspapers is that the right wing will criticise the left wing and vice versa.

Monday 25th September

Print News Regulation
LO: To explore issues of regulation of printed news

Regulation is when something presented to an audience it needs to meet certain requirements that don't harm the audience.

Breach of the regulation could lead to a fine or printed apology, this is a very minimal punishment and since the punishment is so minimal this can be taken advantage of.

Two regulatory bodies were established, IPSO, IMPRESS.

Curran and seaton:

Hesmondhalgh:

Livingstone and Lunt:

Revision for Regulation

There are two main arguments for regulation.

FOR: The main argument for regulation is that the news industry has too much power over the British public which reduces freedom of speech, compromises democracy and overall not in the public interest. 

AGAINST: Shouldn't be controlled and people should be able to publish/say what they want this affects freedom of speech, democracy and public interest, if it was in place it it especially shouldn't be controlled by government legislation.

Curran and Seaton

A point they make is that patterns in ownership and control is very important in how the media operates.

Another point they make is that media industries are capitalist and that they want to increase the concentration of ownership, this will narrow the amount of opinions expressed in the press which will affect plurality.

Another point they make is that the owner of the magazines are willing to decrease quality or creativity for a profit.

Monday 2nd October

Economic contexts affect these newspapers in multiple ways, firstly I'll be speaking about the Daily Mail. The Daily mail has been owned by the Rothermere family for over 100 years, the main income from this newspaper is circulation and advertising and their advertising costs and vary between 3,000 - 3,000,000 however these costs can decrease if the readership decreases. The circulation figures are 1,264,810 and the Daily mails owns 25% of the market share which is the biggest share in the newspaper industry. Daily mail made a profit of 77,000,000 in 2017, same as the previous year, 8,500,000 of this money was made from print readership. Daily mail offset the economic factors by increasing advertising in the mail online, they also increased the cover price and closing a printing factory in Didcot since the transformation to online. There are 7,700,000 online readers and 22,700,000 mobile readers.

Now i'll be speaking about how economic contexts affect The Guardian, this is owned by the scotts trust fund, this fund focuses on socially responsible investments and all profit from their investments support GMG, this is not for profit. There has been a decline in circulation, there is less money from print sales, there was a circulation of 986,827 in 2018 and they have a 2.8% market share, however there is an increase in online presence over the recent years, their statistics are 7,800,000 on desktop, 3,100,000 on tablet and 15,800,000 on mobile. Advertising online and in the newspapers creates their revenue, their costs vary around 5,000 - 32,400, they also make revenue from donations to support the guardian, 800,000 readers have made this donation. Another way they have enhanced their economic factors and made more revenue is reducing print cost by reducing the size of the newspaper and increasing the cover price. They receive money from philanthropy which is rich individuals donating, Bill Gates is an example of this. 

The power elite - Putin allegedly hacking phone.

Celebrity - Ronaldo, 'My return has been a disaster.'. Simon Cowell, 'My son saved my life.'.

Entertainment - Football and Ronaldo.

Surprise - 

Bad news - Hacking phone.

Good news - Simon Cowell, 'My son saved my life.'.

magnitude - World cup.

relevance - World cup.

follow-up -

newspaper agenda - 

Size:

Lexis: Puns used 'everybody was kung fuel fighting', not really a professional choice of language.

Mode of address:

Headline size: Headline size is essentially the biggest thing on the front cover.

Image to text ratio: There is varied image everywhere, a lot more imagery compared to text.

Barthes - 

Denotations: Thousands to be spared cancer with 4p a day pill, Image of painting getting ruined.

Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children

Connotations: Something needs to happen about Gaza and war other lots of people are going to lose their lives.

Myths:

Dual Convergence: is when genres borrow conventions from another in the use of media language so increasingly resemble one another.

How does Neale apply to the Guardian and the Daily mail?

The Guardian: 

Tuesday 14th November

Typography: Bold use of typography we can see the main focus is the headline 

Layout: 

Mode of address: Hyperbole

Locations: Mixed

Lighting: Low key and natural


Masthead: Sunday sport connotes that you get the fulfilment of sport information every Sunday

Main image: small but the large text reinforces its importance

Headline: The headline is a shock intriguing the audience

Minor images: A girl to attract more people 

Font and colour: we can see a large use of red blue and little green and the fonts are very bold non serif.

Plug: 'pictures inside' entices the viewer more

Typography: There is a lot more use of words and not many large things that pop out other than the imagery the main focus is the masthead and the headline.

Layout: The image is very large with smaller images at the bottom of the newspaper and we can see it's in a column layout with 6 columns bellow the main image

Mode of address: Lexis

Locations: Mixed

Lighting: High key and natural

Masthead:  Daily published 

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Exam Question

British newspapers have 3 main genres, tabloid, broadsheet and hybrid, their conventions can be broken up into; image, masthead, text to image ratio, size, news values. Firstly I'll identify the codes and conventions of a tabloid newspaper, tabloids are recognised for containing more imagery on the front-cover, they are also recognised as 'red tops' because of their red mastheads, they contain sans-serif fonts and big bold letters, the image to size ratio is heavily relied on imagery, the size of these tabloids are smaller containing less information and soft news which is news that isn't that serious. Now I'll be identifying the codes and conventions of a broadsheet newspaper, these have less imagery on the front, their masthead are normally black and white but can be a opposite colour, blue, an example of this can be the guardian, their text to image ratio is reliant on the text factor, the size of broadsheets are larger as well,  and these contain hard news which is news that serious. Finally I'll be identifying the codes and conventions of a hybrid newspaper, these can contain a little more imagery than broadsheet but not as much as tabloid, 

The Daily Express uses medial language to establish their political viewpoints. The headline indicates the support for the right wing and indicates the hybrid nature of the newspaper with the focus on hard political news, the praise for sunk can be seen in the choice of words such as victory to suggest he is destined for victory.

Carrie is a great example of patriotism since she was the driving force behind bringing Brodie  to justice and preventing him from carrying out terrorist attacks in the United States. We may also observe the tremendous lengths she goes to in order to raise awareness of this issue. When Brodie returns from the Middle East, we can also witness his bravery as he is hailed as an American hero who has been  gone for eight years.

Tuesday 28th November 2023

Within our society there are a dominant group which contain these following characteristics; middle-aged, white,  male, middle-class, capitalist, able-bodied, western, heterosexual, university.

white, right wing, male, hetreosexual

white, male. politcla, 

Contexts areas could influence representation

Ownership:

journalists opinions can reflect on their writing

media barons can control a majority of the news therefore publishing more of their ideas

Economic factors:

majority of newspapers owners are capitalists meaning they want ot make money

they will make sacrifices to make more money such as decreasing size or decreasing the the amount of news inside

News values and political bias:

Regulation:

this stops them from publishing certain things such as targeting more vulnerable groups

Daily mail 

4 stories    

men

Monday 4th December 2023

Stereotypes

The image creates gender stereotype.

Social Group

Class 

Common stereotypes found -   Working class problems aren't represented as significant as upper class problems.

Purpose of negative stereotype - To position lower classes as less significant to the upper class which is the dominant group.

Age

Common stereotypes found - Young people aren't represented, they are absent.

Purpose of negative stereotype - Reinforces the dominant group because one of their requirements is middle aged.

Gender

Common stereotypes found - middle class women dressed nicely on front cover of newspapers 

Purpose of negative stereotype - Sexualising and objectifying women which are not in the dominate group because they are female.

Ethnicity

Common stereotypes found - Displays other ethnic backgrounds that aren't white in distress.

Purpose of negative stereotype - The dominant ethnicity being white feels empowered as it feels like their duty to resolve the distress.

Hall - Halls states that meaning is created by representation which is what is present and absent, we can see that this can reflect the absence of young people and reflects the ideology of the dominant group which is middle aged.

Gauntlett - 

Van Zoonen - Van Zoonen states that women bodies are objectified this is shown in newspapers where we can see women presented in dresses and being positioned to be glared at.

bell hooks - 

Mental Health in Homeland - 

Mental health is displayed as a frequent reoccurring problem in Homeland, the character that displays this is Carrie. One scene we can see poor mental health being displayed is the panic and rush she has in her bathroom searching for pills and knocking things over, this shows that she is reliant on these and without them she could possibly be worse than she already. After she does this she takes off her engagement ring and leaves it and home and goes out to a bar, this can be an example of how her mental health effects her and how it leads to bad actions.

5th December 2023

Print News: Representation and Case Studies

Owner Lord Rothermere

The values are conservative

middle market (university educated)

political news and celebrity news

positive dominant group representations

conservative values supported

negative/absence of subordinate groups

The events, issues, individuals and social groups are represented on this specific cover to favour the dominant group, we can see that every individual displayed is either middle class or upper class, at the top it states 'Time to cancel cancel culture' from Boris. Boris ticks all the requirements for the dominant group and presents cancel culture as a unnecessary activity, it is also important to note that this culture was developed by subordinate groups therefore it signifies that the dominant group is more professional and that they don't need unnecessary cultures. We can see no cultural diversity, the absence of ethnicity 

Sensationalised personal emotive journalism 

'Will slash migration by 300000'

'Thousands skip school to go on gaza march'

'biggest license fee in 40 years'

Negative representations of minority groups, or absence of these groups.

absence of working class

absence of ethnicity

absence of disbaled

Positive representations of the DG

Boris Johnson

Positive representations of traditional family values

Positive representations of British culture

praising British historians

Positive representations of right-wing political ideology

Positive representations of the Conservative party 

Reports national and global affairs: Winter and diseases in Gaza (GLOBAL), Rival tory tribes threaten sunak authority over rwanda scheme (NATIONAL), Del Monte farm death investigated (GLOBAL),

Centre left political bias: 

How does the Guardian construct stereotypes to communicate ideology and position audiences?

The Guardian uses stereotypes of third world countries as lacking law, civilisation and control from the front-cover story about Del Monte farm death. It presents Kenya in a negative light by showing an uneducated action of murdering. This reinforces the dominant group showing that they are more educated and wouldn't do this.

What is 'Real' on this edition of The Guardian?

Gilroy theory can be applied to this cover 

Tuesday 9th January 2024

1.  The increase of online news is due to the conversion of internet.

2. Owners can monetise news by promotions and donoations.

3. It is much easier to produce and to distribute now

4. Self-regulated

Monday 15th January 2024

The guardian was launched in 2008, developing earlier news website guardianunlimited which began in 1999.

print paper and the observer (another news guardian control) combined make gmg the third largest newspaper in the world.

the guardian has around 34.7 million monthly global users and country specific online versions in Australia and the USA.

gmg offer guardian content of four different platforms: desktop ,mobile, tablet formats, social media. these are platforms for marketing the guardian too.

2017 digital revenues: digital revenue of 108.6 million pounds, increase of 15% in 2017, 50% of gmg revenue

further income form digital advertising, readers can subscribe to digital editions from 11.99 pound a month with additional options to access further content.

PRODUCTION:

long history of developing since 1994

online version still liberal, progressive values as print 

website offers additional features like opinion section and soulmates which enable a greater range of content than print

guardian is a core news site made up of niche sections covering many subjects

there is a rolling news service that is constantly updated by journalists

DISTRUBTION:

digitally distrubuted across digitally converged platforms like website apps and social media

this reduces distrivution costs and enhances profit

guardian hsas a global reach and has a coutntry specific versions in the usa and australia

guardian content is also distruvuted from a partnership deal with yahoo users fron the uk usa australiia india and singapore accessing content

CIRCULATION:

since 2015 guardian has increased circ by 25%

it has 34.7 million monthly global users

1.14 million users access the guardian by mobile or tablet

REGULATION:

self-regulating publication, it is the role of readers' editor to regulate both print and online

guardian has global reach of 140 million inline users therefore regulating and responding to all isnt possible. 

complaints to prioritise they use the following citeria: how serious the complaint is, the likelihood that harm could occur, the potential the content has to mislead, the proximity of the person to the issue raised and whether it directly affects them, how many have complained about the same feature, the risk to the reptuation of gmg and their brands

1) The impact of digital convergence has had impact on the manufactoring process in many ways. Firstly ill start with production, 

The global cultural context in how online news is produced can influence the content offered to its audiences by multiple ways. One way it's influenced is how accessible the news is, you can access news from a mobile device anywhere in the world, whatever country, this allows people to stay updated from anywhere in the world. Another way it's influenced is by logins, these allow for personalised content recommendations which will peak the person who owns the login interest.  

Tuesday 16th January 2024

Echo chamber - an environment where a person only encounters information that reflects/reinforces theirs

front door traffic - viewing newspaper content on their own website instead of another website

click-stream - tracking what users click on and how long they spend on a article

ad-like - liking onto an advert on a website

uk news brands cumulatively have the following reach

84% of men and women

88% of 18-34 year olds

desktop online news reach -

men ages 35-54 consume most on desktop

4 million access news on desktop daily

20% read news brand content weekly

mobile and tablet news reach -

27 million adults access news content on tablet/phone

18-34 year olds make up one third of the 27 million 56% being women

primarily consumed between 6am - 10am

social media reach-

75% of people read news on social media weekly

social media content is usually consumed between 5pm and 10pm

social media news has accumulated over 920 million interactions overall

facebook being the most popular

MAILONLINE

mailonline is accessed by 13 million people daily 73.3% aged 35 + and 26.7% 15-25

they make an addictive and effective way of scrolling through personalised media targeted towards the readers beliefs

they use scalable videos that tell the stories so the reader doesn't actually have to read anything as well as putting videos on their pages for people to watch and learn.

mail online desktop reach -

840000 daily browsers

6.5 million monthly browsers

mobile and tablet -

3.6 million mobile phone daily reach

2.3 million 35+

1.3 million 18-24

smartphone reach 2.9million daily

tablet reach is 775000

social media -

fb age has over 14m likes

most successful news brand on fb

approx 1billion video views per month on fb

twitter profile has 2.2m followers

2nd most popular news brand on twitter

10 million snapchat users daily

Monday 22nd January

The Guardian Online

4 million daily browsers across its platforms

67% of readers are aged 35+

33% of readers are ages 15-25

34.7 million monthly global unique users

24.2 million UK monthly cross platform users

majority of visits from abci group

digital news is highly successful

market leader in providing online news content across desktop and twitter platforms

click streaming to analyse audience preferences

this is seen through the mostviewed section and shows readers are most interested in stories ranging from culture sports politics and economics

Bad news

Magnitude

Power of elite

Relevance

These examples fit Harcup's news values because they follow; power of elite, relevance, bad news, magnitude.  The Guardian prioritises the power of elite, this can be seen in multiple stories featuring elite figures like Sunak. The text below demonstrates a complex lexis, the font is also serif which suggests royalty and hierachical power, in the image we can see that Sunak looks confident and the low angle makes him look powerful, he's behind a shop called the British heart foundation which can imply he is for everyone and that the economic value of something doesn't matter to him. 

Jenkins  - Fans are known as textual poachers, they take parts from media texts to create their own version/culture. New media accelerates participatory culture which means audiences are active and creative participants rather than passive consumers. They can create online communities, produce new creative forms and come to together solve problem and shape the flow of media. This is why Jenkins prefers the term spreadable media rather than viral.

Shirky -  Old Audiences were seen as a predictable group of people, an example being class, they were easy to group. The new audience are seen as unpredictable and prosumers as they create their own news and content.

Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Online news - 

more headlines on homepage compared to front page 

rolling or breaking news can easily be updated or included

Social media - 

Which ML print front page conventions are also used on the online and sm pages?

They have used the same colour scheme across all of the platforms

which ml conventions used on the online platforms are not used in the print version?

 Interactive links, videos and comments

which ml conventions are most successfully used to connect the platforms as the same news brand?

The logo

which ml conventions are used to tell audiences they can participate in the content provided?

Sign in pages and convicing people to sign up to their subscription pages.

Monday 29th January 2024

The Guardian profile picture

The recognisable 'Guardian' username

Like, share, comment section under the image

A further in-depth caption underneath the image to further explain the news

The name and logo at the top acts like a masthead

Follow button to stay updated

The 'G' serif profile picture followed by the 'Guardian' username demonstrates the branding, 'Our world is in chaos' acts as the headline with the subheading being underneath the image.

Guardian profile picture

Banner above profile picture that matches the profile picture theme

This article's purpose is to bring awareness about the lack of mental health guidance from academic staff to support university students with poor mental health, it speaks about universities such as southampton, bristol and exeter. 

Todorv - Theory of narrative

Happy studnet before the pandemic, the pandemic was a distruption in his life and affected his mental health,

30th January 2024

Online news and representation.

Individualism - The worth of an individual is worth more than a group, capitalist ideals, free enterprise, pursuit of profit, right to self- realisation and freedom. (Alone)

Globalism - Cultural exchange is increasing, this means greater trade and free movement of capital, goods and services, successful businesses becoming international. (Entire world factors)

Consumerism - Encourages consumption of goods and services.

Individuals - Rudolf Hoss

Daughter - Balenciaga model

Auschwitz - Globalism

All able bodied

EVENTS - 

Selection and combination of content - Rudolf Hoss was a commander for Auschwitz, but his daughter says he was the nicest man the world.

Connotations of this representation - Lots of happy family photos, signifying a corrupt family that are siding with Auschwitz.

ISSUES - 

Selection and combination of content - The Balenciaga model daughter 

Connotations of this representation - 

SOCIAL GROUPS -

Selection and combination of content -

Connotations of this representation - 

INDIVIDUALS - 

Selection and combination of content -

Connotations of this representation - 

5th February 2024

Dominant group who have social power: Negative stereotype of higher-class as poor driving kills young girl, the car that crashed is mentioned as a £80000 land rover.

Consumerism is natural: Expensive cars are unnecessary.

Individualism is important: How taking care of your body by not eating snacks can change your health and life. Obesity is seen as negative and having a toned physique is ideal. 

Globalisation benefits society - How often relationships have sex has interests of scientific inquiry and how it can benefit people.

Hall - 

Gauntlett - We can see that Gregg Wallace and his fitness story is a part of his identity, his story/identity can influence audience members and therefore they can craft their own identity.

Van Zoonen - We can see that in the how often couples have sex story all the women are dressed stereotypically in dresses which is a

Bell Hooks -

Tuesday 20th February 2024

Political context of newspapers - 

free press, self-regulated and the fourth estate are important in democratic societies.

protective coverage means editors power over information that reaches lots of audience members

newspapers reflect political bias and have a political agenda which will increase in times of political conflict such as Brexit.

owners and editors support political figures and reflect their political values in their news, often owning newspapers to gain political influence.

Historical context of newspapers -

newspapers are one of the oldest media forms; dating back to the 17th century in the UK.

mass readership of newspapers arose in Britian in the alt 19th century with the extension of education and the vote, the increase in mass consumption and the growth of urban popular culture.

since the 1980s the digital age has impacted the printed press to the extent that the industry has had to change in response.

Economic context of newspapers - 

ownership of market shares has to be monitored to ensure competition and plurality in the news industry.

ownership models are moving from trust and proprietor companies to cross-media converged companies with global reach and a focus on profit.

the current funding models in the UK must be reviewed if UK newspapers are to survive.

Social context of newspapers - 

news ownership and production shapes our social consciousness.

production and circulation of news socialises us into learning what is important and how we think about different events, issues, individuals and social groups.

news productions chooses which individuals and social groups to include, reflecting and adding to their visibility in society

Culture context of newspapers -

reading news content daily is a cultural trend embedded in the behaviours of the british public

increasing consumerism means that audiences expect more entertainment from newspapers and accept more marketing in newspapers

news stories feature cultural events, traditions and behaviours that are considered important by audiences in their lived experience.

Political - Putin being accused of covering tracks over Navalny death

Economic - In the top right corner it says its cheaper for subscribers

Social - Emma stone winning an award

Political - 

Social - Police aren't respected as much as they would be 

Culture - Emma stone on the front cover showing obsession with TV

4th March 2024

ownership and regulation.

Political

Newspapers are free press which provides the freedom to publish and spread information, because of this self-regulation and the fourth estate are important in democratic societies. Protective coverage lets editors have power and hold important information, they get to decide weather this information reaches large audiences or nobody.

Historical

Newspapers are recognised as one of the oldest media forms, the can date back to the 17th century in the UK, mass readership of newspapers arose in Britain in the late 19th century because of the change in the vote, education being accessible by everyone and increase in mass consumption with the growth of popular culture. The print press has been changed because of developments in technology and digital convergence, this impacted the ways which news was produced, distributed and circulated. Since the 1980s digital convergence and technology advances has impacted the printed press to innovate. An example of this being that news publishers now have social media, websites and even apps.

Economic

March 11th 2024

Question 2

25 min 15 mark

In the British press there are three genres that are recognised, these consist of tabloid, broadsheet and hybrid. In a tabloid newspaper you should expect to see the famous red masthead, lots of imagery, slang, soft news like celebrity based news, non-serif font and many other conventions. In a broadsheet you should expect to see formal speech, more text, less imagery, larger size, hard news, serif fonts and many other conventions. However a hybrid takes these two conventions and and combines it into one newspaper. 

We can see the differ in media language with each genre, a side by side comparison and we can see some noticeable changes. On The Sun we can see there is a focus on the image, headline and masthead, we don't get an in-depth description about what the rest of the magazine is about, however on The Times, we can see more informative content below the headline 'Brexit earthquake'.

Question 3

10 mark 17min

honesty integrity courage fairness (guardian ethos)

26th March 2024

barthes denotations connotations and myths

boris headline/ cover image

'betrayal' negative, 

myth - critque of inadaquate governemnt 

q3 

personalized adverts

news can retain users by recommending familiar/appealing news by using logins 

offers different platforms

Political 

Social

Economic

Cultural

Historical

How do audiences interaction?

Comments

Social Media

Discussion groups

Notifications

Liking and sharing

Sub

Vids

Curran and Seaton 

Ownership is important to how the media functions

Pursue profit at the loss of creativity 

Internet has not changed the power balance

Hesmondalgh 

Risk is associated with money, production costs are high

Repeated formats are recognisable

Capitalist pattern of increasing concentration and integration

Barthes

Connotations - different ideologies

Equilibrium, Disturbance,Recognition, Resolve, New Equilibrium

Hesmondalgh

They mix with each other

Levi Straus, girl boy

simulation of reality but u can pick holes in it

impossible to tell

society is built around simulations