Essay questions (answer one of the following):
Elaborate and discuss one of the following, making full use of research material and references wherever necessary.
1. In what ways have news media been changed by the rise of digital media and the Internet? Critically evaluate the manner in which journalistic practices and the funding of journalism have been affected.
2. Digital media are largely organised along capitalist lines. What are the implications for this on the way in which digital media are used, and for civil society and the public sphere?
3. Select and describe a piece of creative or digital work, and evaluate its form and content using formal approaches of media literacy analysis. Discuss the extent to which your analysis may offer an alternative and/or extended interpretation of the message contained within that work.
4. Evaluate and discuss the extent to which criticisms of low culture in the context of digital or creative media may be justified. You may, with justification, focus on a particular type of digital or creative media, a particular sector of industry, and/or a particular region.
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Elaborate and discuss one of the following, making full use of research material and references wherever necessary.
1. In what ways have news media been changed by the rise of digital media and the Internet? Critically evaluate the manner in which journalistic practices and the funding of journalism have been affected.
2. Digital media are largely organised along capitalist lines. What are the implications for this on the way in which digital media are used, and for civil society and the public sphere?
3. Select and describe a piece of creative or digital work, and evaluate its form and content using formal approaches of media literacy analysis. Discuss the extent to which your analysis may offer an alternative and/or extended interpretation of the message contained within that work.
4. Evaluate and discuss the extent to which criticisms of low culture in the context of digital or creative media may be justified. You may, with justification, focus on a particular type of digital or creative media, a particular sector of industry, and/or a particular region.
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