Media Studies John Keenan

Break history of the subject/why it is taught/7 areas specifications for media – AQA, Welsh, OCR /brainstorm lesson Break lessons

Learning Outcomes By the end of this day you should: Be able to recount 5 reasons media is taught in schools Be able to identify 5 main thinkers in media studies tradition Be able to list 5 subjects media studies ‘steals’ from Be able to recall the 7 areas of media studies Be able to recall 2 subjects for each area Be able to identify 3 main media exam bodies Be able to identify 1 subject in a syllabus Be able to teach 4 lessons in the subject

Why I’m here What do you know?

Confident – studied it at A level/university Some experience – GCSE, teach it now, read books on it Media studies - no

Media studies is a field not a subject (James Halloran) Study of a phenomenon – the media

19 th Century Matthew Arnold T S Eliot modelled

19 th Century Robert Lee Joseph Pullitzer

Harold Lasswell 1920s-1930s Walter Lippmann

Ferdinand de Saussure 1920s-1930s

Sigmund Freud 1920s-1930s

Herbert Marcuse 1920s-1930s Theodor Adorno

1920s-50s Vladimir Propp Tzvetan Todorov

1950s Jacques Lacan

1950s-60s Richard Hoggart Raymond Williams

1960s Francis Ford Coppola New Hollywood Stephen Spielberg

1950s-1970s Claude Levi-Strauss Louis Althusser Roland Barthes

1960s-1980s Jean Baudrillard Jean Francois Lyotard Frederic Jameson

Today... Noam Chomsky

1960s Cultural Studies Leeds University (Granada Fellowship) Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Leicester University Centre for Mass Communication Research Glasgow University Glasgow University Media Group 1970s Communication Studies Sheffield Polytechnic Coventry Polytechnic 1970s Film Studies Cardiff University 1980s-90s Media Studies – FilmStudies/Communication Studies/Cultural Studies Communication Studies/Film Studies

What is media studies? media studies English psychology sociology business studies art

Pedagogy

Why not media studies? “I am afraid that the interests of our children are not served either by some of the examination boards…They’d give us Chaucer with chips, Milton with mayonnaise. Mr Chairman, I want William Shakespeare in our classroom, not Ronald McDonald.” Education Secretary John Patten speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, 1992 “We could always name two A-Levels we would rather have. [The skills developed by Media Studies] are not relevant to the sort of courses we offer.” Dr Geoff Parks, director of admissions, Cambridge University: ‘discriminate and resist’ “I’d be far more interested in seeing someone with a Law degree. […] As far as I know I’ve never interviewed anyone with a Media Studies degree.” Veronica Wadley, Editor, The London Evening Standard:

The future? It is now widely believed among teachers that one of the ways in which senior English will develop in schools in the next few years is in the direction of 'Cultural Studies'. – Australia Digital

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A: B:B: UKAustralia Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: USASwitzerland Which word has one syllable? Out of which country did the academic study of the media NOT spring?

B Australia

A: B:B: Robert LeeGeneral Mustang Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: Joseph PullitzerTheodor Adorno Which word has one syllable? Who called for a study of journalism in the 19 th Century believing it to be a foundation of democracy

A Robert Lee

A: B:B: LeicesterCardiff Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: GlasgowLeeds Which word has one syllable? Which university started the first cultural studies course in the UK

D Leeds

A: B:B: Levi-StraussMarcuse Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: deSaussureHoggart Which word has one syllable? Who is this?

A Levi-Strauss

A: B:B: Jean BaudrillardFrancois Lyotard Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: Frederic JamesonJacques Lacan Which word has one syllable? Which of these is NOT a postmodern thinker?

Jacques Lacan

A: B:B: Walter LippmannHarold Lasswell Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: Noam ChomskyHerbert Mead Which word has one syllable? Which American studied the media with a view of perfecting its persuasive powers?

B Harold Lasswell

A: B:B: Roland BarthesJacques Lacan Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: Ferdinand deSaussureHerbert Marcuse Which word has one syllable? Who coined the term, ‘semiotics’?

C deSaussure

A: B:B: 1970s1980s Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: 1990s2000s Which word has one syllable? In which decade was media studies created?

B 1980s

A: B:B: historybusiness studies Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: artpsychology Which word has one syllable? Which of the following subjects does media studies NOT ‘steal’ from?

A history

A: B:B: Judith WilliamsonStuart Price Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: Noam ChomskyJohn Berger Which word has one syllable? Who wrote ‘Ways of Seeing’?

D John Berger

A: B:B: T S EliotMatthew Arnold Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: F R LeavisRichard Hoggart Which word has one syllable? Who said ‘discriminate and resist’?

C F R Leavis

A: B:B: Noam ChomskyHarold Laswell Which word has one syllable? C:C: D:D: Theodor AdornoWalter Lippmann Which word has one syllable? Who first coined the term, ‘manufacturing consent’?

D Walter Lippmann

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Learning Outcomes Be able to recount 5 reasons media is taught in schools Be able to identify 5 main thinkers in media studies tradition Be able to list 5 subjects media studies ‘steals’ from php/fruit_machine/

By the end of this session you should: Be able to recall the 7 areas of media studies Be able to recall 2 subjects for each area Be able to identify 3 main media exam bodies

7 areas of media studies Institutions Ideology Narrative Language Genre Representation Audience Mnemonic Iinlgra

Representation Gender/race Symbolic annihilation

Language Newspaper Rhetoric (advertising) Film/TV Semiotics

Audience Targeting Pleasure/Use Effects

Ideology Norms and values

Institutions Types of integration Ownership Public Service Broadcasting vs commercial Law Censorship

Narrative Propp Todorov Barthes – enigma Time Character

Genre Reasons for Social change Sub/cross-genre

Specifications GCSE – Level 2 WJEC Website Specification Support and resources AQA Website Specification Resources OCR Website Specification Support

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BTEC Certificate Level 2 Specification C_Firsts_in_Creative_Media_Production_L2.pdf Resources BTEC Certificate – Level 2

Specifications AQA SP-10.PDF OCR gce_spec.pdf A Level Level 3

/BN021893_BTEC_Nationals_Creative_Media_Production_L3.pdf BTEC Diploma Level 3

Recommended books Studying the Media O’Sullivan, Dutton and Rayner The Media Students Book Stafford and Branston Media Studies Stuart Price Communication Studies Beck, Bennett and Wall More than Meets the Eye Burton ndary/Search.aspx?pearson_keywords=media%20stu dies Studies.aspx

Websites

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