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For my production, I’m creating a double page spread based on how women are portrayed in magazines, in comparison to men. The aim is to determine why they’re portrayed in a certain way. The target audience will be 16-24-year-old women. Some of my magazine references are outdated, however it was difficult to find any recentContinue reading “MIR BP2: Literature Review.”

 For this project, we have been asked to create some production work based on chosen topics. For mine, I have decided to do a double page spread and front cover of a magazine based on gender. I have chosen this as there’s plenty of feminists who have written about and researched into why women areContinue reading “MIR BP1: Pre production.”

07/10/19 With this question I struggled, purely because I don’t think into this too much as I don;t have the biggest opinion on it. I know in this day and age there’s plenty of programs and videos empowering women and showing just how strong we are, which I love, because people are showing just howContinue reading “Media, Identities and Representations – What role has gender played in your media preferences?”

01/10/19 Identities are… A means to acquiring and circulating power (Carah and Louw 2015:167-169) – Living social relationships we create via our interrelations with the symbolic and material world. – Process of locating ourselves within the social world and its power relationships. Identities are a difficult term: more or less everyone knows more or lessContinue reading “Media, Identities and Representations – Lecture notes.”

This project has allowed me to research into the ways people see themselves and social media, especially Instagram. My research may be considered similar to other studies conducted over the years as people are constantly trying to figure out what it is that makes people have such big insecurities and why they base a lotContinue reading “6 – Media Audiences – Analysis and Conclusion”

SURVEY For my survey I ended up having 117 people take part, with the majority being females. One problem I did face was if I wanted to see more than 100 responses, I needed to pay, so this limited me to only being able to see 100 responses, which explains why on my questions, itContinue reading “5 – Media Audiences – Findings”

The two most suited methods for my survey are a survey and an interview. This is due to a survey helping me compare anonymous results and interviews are very raw so I’ll be able to get real emotions from people which suits my research topic well. SURVEYS AND INTERVIEWS The strengths of surveys are asContinue reading “4 – Media Audiences – Methodology”

For my study I’m researching whether Instagram is the worst social media for young girls’ mental health and well being. The aim is to determine how, and to what extent their mental health is being affected by what celebrities post. The target audience will be 16-24-year-old girls/young women. I want to be able to seeContinue reading “3 – Media Audiences – Literature Review”

25/01/19 A definition of media: a way to communicate and gain information through a variety of platforms. 5 most used mobile phone features/apps: – Snapchat – Messenger – Instagram – Spotify – Coin Master 5 most visited websites: – Shuspace – Booking.com – Netflix – Youtube – Pretty Little Thing 5 most watched TV channels:Continue reading “Media Audiences – Introduction to the Media and Me.”

Assignment 2: 2000 words – deadline 14th January 3:00pm Task Considering the factors that intervene in the disruption of the media landscape (their use, economic interests, changes in technologies, portability, digitalisation, politics etc)  Think creatively and anticipate of how a particular medium or media practice will change in the future. To do this show rigourContinue reading “History of the Media – Media Disruption. “