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Teen Vogue: background reading Read this  Guardian feature from 2017 on Teen Vogue  and answer the following questions. 1) What was the article that announced Teen Vogue as a more serious, political website – with 1.3m hits and counting? It was an article (written by Lauren Duca) about the actions of Trump and how he is gaslighting America. *Gaslighting: manipulating someone to the point where they question their own sanity.  5-year-old Lauren Duca, a Teen Vogue contributing editor and award-winning writer for the likes of Vice and the New Yorker published an excellent piece regarding Donald Trump gaslighting America. She wrote “To gaslight is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity, and that’s precisely what Trump is doing to this country,” She also gave readers excellent advice, stating  “Refuse to accept information simply because it is fed to you, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.”...

Clay Shirky: End of audience blog tasks Media Magazine reading Media Magazine 55 has an overview of technology journalist Bill Thompson’s conference presentation on ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ It’s an excellent summary of the internet’s brief history and its impact on society. Go to  our Media Magazine archive , click on MM55 and scroll to page 13 to read the article ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ Answer the following questions: 1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson? - allowed people to communicate through emails - allowed people to exchange files  - able to communicate with anyone around the world  - able to get information  - a way to express voice  - connects people  - great source for information - great place for gaming and education  - can be used politically and can be used for campaigns in order to draw attention t...

1) OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks 2) OSP: Teen Vogue - background and textual analysis 3) OSP: Teen Vogue - audience and representation 4) Newspapers: Assessment learner response 5) OSP: Teen Vogue - industry and social media 6) OSP: Hall and Gilroy - media theory 7) OSP: The Voice - blog case study

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Gilroy argues that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by civilisation, slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism.  ‘Race’ [is not] the eternal cause of racism [but is] its complex, unstable product. I should probably emphasise at this point that neither race nor racism are the exclusive historical property of the minorities who are their primary victims. (Gilroy, 2004) Gilroy is saying that racism isn’t caused by race, racism causes race. Racism is not caused by the clash of two or more races – racism is not a natural phenomenon 2) What does Gilroy sugge...