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MEST 3: The Impact of New & Digital Media Case Study
STUDENT NAME: Shivani Joshi
TEACHER: Mr. Halsey
In A2 MEST 3 you will study two distinct topics, ‘Representation’ and ‘The Impact of New & Digital Media’. For each topic you will each be required to produce an individual case study of your own choice (the exam board does not permit groups of students to have the same focus). Your ‘New & Digital Media’ case study must examine the impact of new and digital media on another aspect of media production, exhibition and/or distribution on one or more platforms. This case study will be in addition to the teacher led case study you will do in class regarding ‘The Impact of New & Digital Media on News’. Your own choice of case study topic must not duplicate what you have learned in class and gender/ representation of women in any genre of text and/or platform and the study of News and Digital Media are therefore not permissible as topics for an individual case study. You will be able to (and should) refer to both the teacher led and your own study in the MEST 3 exam (Section B) to demonstrate a range of examples and application of a range of theories, issues and debates as applicable to the question set. This will be worth 60% of your A2 exam grade.
MEST 4 NOTE OF CAUTION: Please also be aware that as you are studying ‘Representation’ and ‘The Impact of New & Digital Media on News’ in this unit you are not permitted to use representation or digital media and news as a main focus for your MEST 4 Critical Investigation (2,000 word study with linked production). There is scope however to cover the concept of representation but from a different angle e.g. the investigation title ‘Magazines are a site of contention regarding ideologies of body image’ covers the contentious representations of women and body image but these are explored in this study through the key concept of ideology, exploring what ideologies are constructed by the media representations, how they are constructed and why the ideologies which are formed from these representations are an issue in contemporary society. The word representation must not therefore appear in your investigation title.
New and Digital media includes: The internet (web, email, VoIP, chat), mobile telephony (txt, 3G, smart phones), gaming, new media technologies like MP3, High Definition, PVRs (Sky+, Freeview+ etc.)
You could in this unit for example carry out a case study of a chosen new media area e.g. YouTube or Wikipedia. Within this you might study a variety of new/digital technologies over the period of a term such as the impact of mobile phones and the changing modes of consumption of media products that are a consequence of such developing technology, or the impact of social networking sites on the internet such as MySpace. This would allow you to investigate a variety of media issues and debates such as globalisation, ownership and control and the digital revolution and its consequent effect on production and exhibition. Candidates might consider how new technologies affect the way we consume (and produce) media products and therefore affect the ways that media products are produced, distributed and exhibited. They could widen this approach to study the impact of new media across different media platforms. You will also consider the changing role of audiences and the decline of the mass audience in the new interactive age, and how this mainly affects media institutions now and in the future.
EXAMPLE: A CASE STUDY OF YOUTUBE
A case study of YouTube might look at a variety of issues all linked with the list above but would also examine the nature of the site, its content, the implications of a medium where we are all producers of media texts, the debate over whether a site such as Youtube is part of a democratisation of the media or whether media institutions have forestalled the power of the audience by purchasing such sites. There are also considerable implications for all media producers (and audiences) in the sense that now, it can be argued, creators of media products can control the distribution and exhibition of their own products.
How will I use this case study in an exam?Here are some examples of typical exam questions on the topic of new and digital media:
- “Digital media have, in many ways, changed how we consume media products.” Who do you think benefits most – audiences or producers?
- “Media institutions are right to feel threatened by new/digital media.” Consider this statement and show how media institutions are reacting to technological developments.
- The development of new/digital media means the audience is more powerful in terms of consumption and production. Discuss the arguments for and against this view.
- “The new generation of UK media power players are going stratight to their audience via the web” www.mediaguardian.co.uk Monday July 14 2008. How have media institutions responded to the opportunities offered by new/digital media?
- Developments in new/digital media mean that audiences can now have access to a greater variety of views and values. To what extent are audiences empowered by these developments?
- Why and with what success are traditional media institutions adapting to the challenge posed by new/digital media?
In the exam you will be given a choice of two questions on ‘Representation’ and two on’ The Impact of New & Digital Media’. You will select just 1 question to answer, on either of these topics, dependent upon which you feel most comfortable with in the exam and use examples from these, applying relevant theories and issues and debates from both the teacher led and your own case study. This section of the exam will last for one hour and will be worth 60% of your A2 exam grade (30% of your overall Media Studies grade).
Step One - Generating Topic Ideas for Individual Case Studies:
A study of the impact of new and digital media on………
- Music promotion and the charts
- TV broadcasting
- Advertising
- The media and democracy
- The role of the distributor and exhibitor
- The internet & social networking sites
- The role of media institutions
Now try brainstorming a few of your own……..
- Impact of new and digital media has had on the coverage of Sport
- Impact of new and digital media has had on the coverage of Football
- Broadcasting in Sports
- Role of record labels and how this has changed through new and digital media
- Impact new and digital media has had on the speed of breaking news
Step Two: Identifying relevant theories/ issues & debates
Some well-known theories/ issues and debates on the topic of new and digital media include:
- Hegemony
- Marxism
- Pluralism
- Cultural Imperialism
- Globalisation
- Post-colonialism
Not all of these will be appropriate for your own individual study but a good starting point is to identify the key areas that each of the above theorists covers
Use the table below to help you gather information and sources on each of the theorists/ issues and debates above and identify those relevant for your study. You may find additional theorists and/or issues of your own which you wish to refer to and should also include these below:
Topic Covered
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Book/ Publication/ Online source
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Key Quotes
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Theorist/ issue or debate
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Topic Covered
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Book/ Publication/ Online source
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Key Quotes
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Step Three: Choosing individual topic area and relevant theorists
Step Three: Choosing individual topic area and relevant theorists
Write here what your case study will involve. Remember it should be about the impact of new and digital media on.......
Explain why you have chosen this topic and why you think this will be a rich area for study.
The reason why I have chosen the topic of music and the way it is marketed through using new technology and the impact new and digital media has on the way music is portrayed towards its audience is because I am personally very passionate about this. It will be a rich area for study due to the fact that the music is a very large area to cover and due to there being a new stories coming out nearly every day ab and the power in the institutions going through a major change now portrays how it will be a rich area for study.
Identify at least three media texts/ products that you will use as your primary sources of evidence to demonstrate the impact of new and digital media in your topic area.
TEXT
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PLATFORM (broadcast, print, e-media)
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YEAR OF PRODUCTION
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List here the theorists you have identified in your research table above that you will need to refer to for your study:
Approval by teacher and comments:
Signed:
Next steps:
- Has new and digital media had an impact upon ownership and control of the media institution(s) involved in your case study area? Explain in detail any impact and what exactly has changed.
- What impact has there been on the way in which the audience now consume the media products/ texts involved in your case study? How does it differ from what went before? Consider (SHEP)
- What impact has there been on how the media institution now has to produce the texts and the way in which the texts/ products are distributed and exhibited? This should involve a detailed textual analysis of at least 3 texts to demonstrate the point.
- Is the size of the audience any different now than before the impact of new and digital media (or has the pattern of usage changed)? E.G. consider for the impact of new and digital media on TV broadcasting the change in audience ratings for programmes as a consequence of the deregulation of TV. (Prior to deregulation audience figures could be 20m+ for Eastenders etc to a situation today where, due to the massive number of channels now available, audiences are vastly reduced and fragmented).
- Who are the primary target audience now and has this changed? Who was it before and how do you know?
TEXT
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CURRENT TARGET AUDIENCE
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ORIGINAL TARGET AUDIENCE
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HOW DO YOU KNOW?
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- How have the audience responded to the changes? Is there more customer choice? Is there evidence of a more pluralistic model? What evidence do you have to support this?
- What concerns/ considerations are there (if any) for the media institutions involved in your case study as a result of the impact of new and digital media? (e.g. deskilling or multi-skilling of the workforce/ decline in workforce etc)
- What are the political and social implications of the new technologies and the methods of their consumption? E.g. moral panics etc?
- Consider the effects so far, and possible effects in the future, on media institutions involved in your case study (media production).
- What issues may there be regarding media effects and /or regulation/ censorship as a result of changes due to new and digital media?
- Are there any cross-cultural factors and /or effects of globalisation involved in the impact of new technology on your case study? E.g. the internet has been said to be ‘globalising culture’ through its promotion of the English language.
- Consider theoretical perspectives in relation to the impact of new/ digital media in your case study. E.g. Representation of certain groups as a result of changes, Marxism & Hegemony, Liberal Pluralism, colonialism, audience theories etc.
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