Revision Checklist

Revision Checklist

ISSUES/DEBATES

• Representation and Stereotyping
• Media effects
• Reality TV
• News Values
• Moral Panics
• Post 9/11 and the media
• Ownership & Control
• Regulation and Censorship
• Media Technology and the digital revolution – changing technologies in the 21st century
• The effects of globalisation on the media

Theories

• Semiotics
• Structuralism & Post-Structuralism
• Postmodernism and its critiques
• Gender and ethnicity
• Marxism & Hegemony
• Liberal Pluralism
• Colonialism & Post-colonialism
• Audience theories
• Genre theories