OSP: Final index

 1) OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks

2) OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture

3) OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Language and Representations

4) OSP: Taylor Swift CSP - Audience and Industries 

5) Baseline Assessment learner response

6) OSP: Postcolonial theory - Gilroy and diasporic identity

7) OSP: The Voice - blog case study

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