LeaB Media Blog (Mr Pall)

 1.) The term "cultural industries" refers to the creation, process and distribution on products of cultural or artistic nature. 2.) Hesmondhalgh acknowledges that the media does have an impact on their audiences interpretations of things due to the medias potential biases. Audiences spend large amounts of time consuming and experiencing things provided by these media companies and this is what gives them their money.  3.) In contemporary societies the media tends to supply ideologies which challenge capitalism and inequalities and race.  4.) Risky business, commerce vs creativity and high production cost: low reproduction cost 5.) Because those risky businesses are often unpredictable and and use cultural commodities in high volatile in order to express their differences from others. Risks of consumerism also add to the risk factor due to the limited autonomy and the companies reliance on other cultural companies to make audiences aware of new products.   6.) F...

1.) "WWW: strong effort overall for this assessment. Your question 1 and 2 in particular demonstrate your ability to analyse media products with explicit media terminology to support. NEXT STEPS:      1. Timing - bit too much focus on question 1 which may have impacted your time on question 2 which was worth more marks     2. Revise genre theories for question 3, make flashcards" 2.) I need to make sure I include theories instead of just ideologies, for example I could have discussed Abercrombie's theories on genre.  3.) Using the other students work as a guide I could have included Abercrombie's theory including media in my question 3.  4.) I had used the right media terminology, however I did not include any theories which was my issue. I must remember for the next assessment to include media theories.    5.) My weakest question was question 5 since I had not understood the question and I also did not revise any theories surrounding genre. ...