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Newspaper regulation: blog tasks

Task One: Media Magazine article and questions Read the Media Magazine article: From Local Press to National Regulator in MM56 (p55). You'll find the article  in our Media Magazine archive here . Once you've read the article, answer the following questions: 1) Keith Perch used to edit the  Leicester Mercury . How many staff did it have at its peak and where does Perch see the paper in 10 years' time? 130 2) How does Perch view the phone hacking scandal? Regulation is not the answer. It was something illegal that the police should have dealt with. 3) What does IPSO stand for and how does it work? Independent press standard organisation. It's there to regulate the news' paper industry.  4) What is Perch's view of newspaper ownership? Keith does not believethat businesses such as Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorporation, which owns The Sun, The Times and 39% of Sky, should be forced to sell some of their titles to ensure that no one person or  company can control too ...
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Newspaper Final Index

Mock Paper 1 Mock Paper 2 Weekly News Stories Decline in Print Media Future of Journalism News Values Regulation 
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Videogames Final Index

  1) Video games: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 2) Video games: The Sims Free Play - Language & Representation 3) Video games: The Sims Free Play - Audience & Industries 4) Learner response: OSP assessment 5) Video games: Women in video games & Further feminist theory 6) Video games: Horizon Forbidden West - Language & Representations 7) Video games: Horizon Forbidden West - Audience & Industries
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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Language & Representations blog tasks

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Language / Gameplay analysis Watch The Sims: FreePlay trailer and answer the following questions: 1) What elements of gameplay are shown? Character customisation, house living, interaction with other sims, wedding, pets, teens.  2) What audience is the trailer targeting? It's targeting teens due to the sandbox aspect of the sims as well as "to see how adulthood will look like. 3) What audience pleasures are suggested by the trailer? Diversion, personal identification,  personal identity Now watch this walk-through of the beginning of The Sims FreePlay and answer the following questions: 1) How is the game constructed? Build a sim, town and complete tasks. Gather XP and progress through games. 2) What audience is this game targeting? Teenagers/young people 3) What audience pleasures does the game provide? Diversion,  personal identification,  personal identity 4) How does the game encourage in-app purchases? 'Lets play' crystal speeds up time and DLC's.   Represe...
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The Sims FreePlay CSP - Audience and Industries blog tasks

  Create a new blogpost called 'The Sims FreePlay CSP - Audience and Industries blog tasks' and complete the following tasks. Audience Read  this App Store description and the customer reviews for The Sims FreePlay  and answer the following questions:   1) What game information is provided on this page? Pick out three elements you think are important in terms of making the game appeal to an audience. Life simulation : Players control and create Sims’ lives. Customization : Build homes, design characters, and create stories. Updates : Seasonal events and new content keep the game engaging 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims? Customisation  3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game?  The sandbox element, being able to do things they want at their own pace. Participatory culture Read  this academic journal article - The Sims:...
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Women and videogames: blog tasks

Work through the following blog tasks to complete our work on women in videogames and further feminist theory. Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read  this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  Some guy was mad at his ex, called her a prostitute and it gained traction. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  A group with more than 200,000 followers on PC games storefront Steam, as well as thousands in a Discord chat channel, believes that Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology. They think that Sweet Baby has written and controlled almost every popular video game of the past five years, shutting straight white men out. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Nobody is forcing diversity into video games. It is happeni...
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Blog tasks: The decline in print media

Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   "TikTok’s reach for news has increased from 2020 (1%) to 2022 (7%). Half of its user base (for news) are aged 16- 24." - I think this information is very interesting as is shows the change in how young people take in news. "Different age groups consume news very differently; younger age groups are much more likely to use the internet and social media for news, whereas their older counterparts favour print, radio and TV." - This one is builds on the previous one. It just show's the difference between the older generation and the younger ones. "Social media is overtaking traditional channels for news among teens. Inst...
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