MIGRAIN: Final index

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions

2) Semiotics blog tasks

3) Language: Reading an image - media codes

4) Media consumption audit

5) Reception theory - advert analyses

6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions

7) Narrative: Factsheet questions

8) Audience: classification - psychographics presentation notes

9) October assessment learner response

10) Audience theory 1 - Hypodermic needle/Two-step flow/U&G

11) Audience theory 2 - The effects debate - Bandura, Cohen

12) Industries: Ownership and Control

13) Industries: Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries

14) Industries: Public Service Broadcasting

15) Industries: Regulation

16) Representation: Introduction to Representation

17) Representation: Feminism - Everyday Sexism & Fourth Wave MM article

18) January assessment learner response

19) Representation: Feminist theory

20) Representing ourselves: Identity in the online age - MM article & Factsheet

21) Ideology: BBC Question Time analysis and MM articles

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