Mass Media 3 | The Selection and Presentation of News
Following hot on the heels of Defining and Researching the Media and The Ownership and Control Debate comes a new set of notes looking at The Selection and Presentation of News. When I say “new”, the bulk of the text was actually written around 5 years ago but I’ve updated it slightly to take account […]
Mass Media 2 | The Ownership and Control Debate
Another set of Notes in the Mass Media series (following the initial Defining and Researching the Media set) that fell-victim to a dispute between the Publisher* who commissioned them and an Exam Board who, for reasons of personal probity shall remained unnamed**, these divide the ownership and control debate into three main sections: 1. Defining […]
Mass Media 1 | Defining and Researching
Kicking my heels between edits I thought I might dig-out some old Notes (they were originally written around 5 years ago for a professional publishing project that, for one reason or another, never came together) and knock them into some sort of shape in the sincere belief that someone might find them useful. The “shape […]
Sociology in Focus for A2: Media Resources
Another set of free resources to complement the Sociology in Focus For A2 textbook, this batch relates to the Mass Media option: Overview Map: An introductory map that provides a very general overview of the Module content. Revision Maps: These Unit Maps go into much more depth and detail about the content covered throughout the […]
Sociology in Focus for A2: Free Textbook
Sociology in Focus for A2 is, as you may have guessed, the companion volume to the previously-posted AS text and it’s no great surprise that its design and layout perfectly complements its AS counterpart. This includes the by-now standard colour-coded sections, lots of pictures, activities and questions that, at the time, were considered a quite […]
Ethnicity in Advertising Report
This short Report, sponsored by the Lloyds Banking Group, asks the question “Does Advertising Reflect Modern Britain in 2018?” and answers it in a way that both GCSE and A-level Sociology teachers and students should find useful. In basic terms, it’s a big, colourful, pdf file in three broad sections available for viewing online or […]
Understanding Media and Culture: Free Textbook
Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication (to give it its full title) is a textbook, released under a Creative Commons licence by the University of Minnesota, that’s free to read, copy and share – which makes it especially useful for schools / colleges or students on a tight budget. Under this particular […]
Popular Postmodernism and the Crisis of Masculinity…
Popular forms of postmodernism are arguably a feature of many forms of current journalistic analysis of social behaviour, in both main stream and social media, with a current “crisis of masculinity” being a firm media narrative. Locating such arguments in their historical context may, however, be a more-sociologically useful way to understand them at a-level. […]
Globalisation and the Digital World: Revision Stuff
Colourful PowerPoint Presentation summarising the OCR Globalisation and the Digital World Unit, plus a range of 6 / 9 mark exam practice questions. It’s somehow typical that you see nothing about this OCR A-Level Sociology Unit for months and then, just as you’ve posted a “6 week course” guide, you stumble across a couple of […]
Sociology Revision Booklets: 3. Mass Media
The third in our occasional series covering free revision resources on the web looks at the Mass Media (as you’ve probably guessed from the title). The number of resources is substantially less than previous offerings on Theory and Methods and Beliefs in Society but what they lack in number is more than made-up for by […]