Simulacra and Hyperreality
I’ve called this a “Lesson Outline” (rather than Plan) because it’s designed to introduce and to some extent explain the related concepts of simulacra and hyperreality using practical examples to illustrate the processes. What the Outline does is treat Baudrillard’s concepts of simulacra and hyperreality in much greater depth than is usually the case with […]
More ATSS Teacher Support Material
Thanks to the very useful online file converter Zamzar I was able to convert one of the old ATSS support booklets from it’s original Microsoft Publisher .pub format to a more-friendly and easily-edited Word format. This booklet illustrates the concept of News Values and is based around the question of “Who creates the news?”. The material […]
SCTV Weekly Round-Up
A little late, but worth the wait. Probably. Our weekly round-up of the sites and stories that are hot. Or not.
Weekly Round-Up
This week’s round-up of all the sites, scenes and sounds that piqued our interest…
Weekly Digest
All the links that caught our eye this past week in one handy post… Sociology Education Methods in Context Mark Scheme I’ve seen the future and it doesn’t look good: “I Teach At A For-Profit College: 5 Ridiculous Realities” Crime Manchester’s Heroin Haters – Vigilante violence? Revealed: London’s new violent crime hotspots Chief Constable confirms […]
Media Methods
One of the obvious ways to study the media is through Content Analysis and a classic – if now somewhat dated – application of the method was the Glasgow Media Group’s pioneering research, evidenced through a series of books – Bad News (1976), More Bad News (1980), Really Bad News (1982) – that examined “the […]
Media Representations: UK TV Tropes
The concept of a “media trope” refers to the recurrent use of particular ideas, themes and the like within (and sometimes across) different media and while tropes are often simple stylistic devices used to convey necessary information to an audience in a short space of time (Hollywood films, for example, use various recurring devices to […]
Crime as Postmodern Spectacle: Fear, Fascination and Murder as Video Game
A significant feature of what we might call “crime in postmodernity” is the idea that the media, in all its many forms, plays a central role in the construction of criminogenic discourses, where the role of the media is twofold. First, media are important because they propagate and, in some senses, control organise, criticise, promote […]
New Media: 2. Issues
The various features of new media raise a new set of issues for both producers and consumers. In terms of the former, for example, the development of global computer networks have presented problems for media industries whose products are relatively easy to copy and distribute, with no loss of quality because of digital reproduction. The […]
New Media and Algorithmic Censorship
Media Sociology discussions about censorship quite understandably usually focus on various forms of human agency – whether this relates to areas like: overt forms of government censorship, where media outlets are directly controlled or censored by government (such as the ex-Soviet Union or contemporary Iran). overt and covert forms of propriatorial censorship. This might media […]