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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 or you can   access it online here   using your Greenford Google login. Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? They are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism.  2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Racism isn't caused by race, racism creates race. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? "Ethnic absolutism is a line of thinking which sees humans are part of different ethnic compartments, with race as the basis of human differentiation." 4) How does Gilroy view diasporic identity? "He considers a transatlantic diasporic identity, where gr...

  Create a new blogpost called 'Taylor Swift: Audience and Industries blog tasks' and work through the following to complete your case study. Audience Background and audience wider reading Read  this Guardian feature on stan accounts and fandom . Answer the following questions: 1) What examples of fandom and celebrities are provided in the article? Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters, Beyoncé’s Bey Hive, Taylor Swift’s Swifties, and Nicki Minaj’s Barbs. 2) Why did Taylor Swift run into trouble with her fanbase?  Her fans couldn't access Trickmasters System 3) Do stan accounts reflect Clay Shirky's ideas regarding the 'end of audience'? How?  It does. Anybody can create a fan account and make their online presence be around a specific celebrity. Read  this Conversation feature on the economics of Taylor Swift fandom . Answer the following questions:  1) What do Taylor Swift fans spend their money on?  Albums ,  merchandise  and  concert tickets ....

Create a new blog post called 'Y13 baseline assessment learner response' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW-Q2 +Q3 show real potential: engagement with the question, extensive paragraphs and some knowledge of theory. We just need a little more consistency and accuracy to open up with higher grades. EBI- Q1 has cost you here: revise Radio topic and BBC Radio + Newsbeat in particular. Those should be relatively easy marks -In Q3, some of your theories or CSP are inaccurate so revise the CSP and Magazine Topic. in particular, revise the Gentle Club. Statistics would also help with the question. 2) Focusing on the BBC  Newsbeat  question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you  didn't  include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas. Inform Young people (15-29 year olds) Select...

Narrative Go to our Media Magazine archive (issue MM79) and read the feature All Too Well on Taylor Swift and how she controls her own narrative. Answer the following questions:  1) Why is Taylor Swift re-recording her earlier albums?  To regain control over them. 2) Why did Taylor Swift choose to make the short film 'All Too Well'?  3) What other examples are provided in the article of Taylor Swift using media to construct her own image?  Taylor Swift textual analysis Work through the following tasks to complete your textual analysis of Taylor Swift's website and social media.  1) Go to  Taylor Swift's website . What do you notice about the media language choices - text, font, images, page design, links? Colour scheme: black/white/grey Typography: Serif Top menu-  website convention Image analysis- revealing, van Zoonen's theory that she is seen as spectacle, image dehumanise TS by cutting off her face Front page of store- Physical media 2) Now v...