Health Check Quiz Answers

                             Health Check Quiz Answers

Q: 1.   What is media.

A way to communicate information, between person to person, modern media must got out to a vast amount of people, which means mass production.

Q. 2. List at least 5 different types of media that exist from your timeline research task.

Newspaper, Video games, Radio, Films, Tv

Q.3.   what is web 2.0? what does web 2.0 offer to consumers compared to web1.0.

Web 1.0 had limited communication, and was one way (from the publisher to viewer.) Whilst, Web 2.0 has more advanced web pages, that are more than one way direction, and is centred around user generated content, with more advanced and specialised graphics/

Q.4  What are the four main elements used to analyse a music video/film/tv media tex

• Mise en Scen

• Editing

• Camera

• Audio

Q 5. In Prof. S. Hall’s theory on encoding and decoding there are three ways in which a media text can be decoded.   Describe them below

1. –Preferred - when the text is read, in the way it was intended

2. -Negotiated - where some of the message is accepted by the media, whilst, some is also rejected

3. –Oppositional - where the audience rejects the producers preffered reading completely 

Q. 5 Define representation

How media texts deal and present issues related to gender, race, ethnicity, age etc.

Q.6 Define stereotype

A common generalisation of a group, that may be inaccurate, but is common belief.

Q. 7 Define counter-stereotype. 

The exact opposite to a particular stereotype.

Q.8  Define working Class.

Individuals who engage in manual work, often having low levels of educational achievement.

Q.9 list five media stereotypes associated with the working class 

Poor, uncultured, vulgar, using benefits,tax wasting.

Q. 10 list four black racial stereotypes .

Violent, Loud, Gangmembers, Athletic

Q.11 identify the four stereotypes associated with Alvardo 

Exotic, Dangerous, Pitied, Different

Q.12 discuss Butsch theory on the representation of the working class (1992)

Working class are flawed

Q.14. Discuss Newman (2006) theory on the representation of the working class 

Negative opinion, and, flawed individuals.

Q.15 Shildrick and MacDonald (2007) suggested that the poor are undeserving of sympathy