Blog tasks: The Times Case Study - Audience and Industries

Audience


1) What are the main audience demographics for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can. the upper class as the times have more advanced  vocabulary thus targetting the higher educated audience .

2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment? the times contains hardcore news 

3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected or challenged by the design and news stories in the CSP pages we have studied?  the times contain haredcore news thus not attracting any younger audience who would like soft news.

4) What are the main audience pleasures offered by the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory.
survillance,entainment , personal identity ,becoming an active participant 

5) Why might a reader enjoy this CSP edition of the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory categories and write as detailed an analysis as you can. Survillance is used to go trough the scandal as people would want to know whats going on the world aswell as entertainment as readers would want to be enteraitned and this scandal has been made enterating by the times.

Industries

1) Who owns the Times? Write the name of the company AND the billionaire who owns the company.
rupert murdoch 
2) What was the The Times's circulation in 2019? How many papers did the Times used to sell back in the 1990s? You can find all of these statistics in the blogpost above. 
376000 now but before use to sell 800000

3) How has the Times reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet? Watch the two videos above for more on this. the times have moved to a many platforms and are using social medi a strategies .

4) What does IPSO stand for and what is IPSO's job?
independent press standards organisation, there job is to :
  • Regulate 1500 print and 1100 online titles.
  • Listen to complaints about press behaviour.
  • Help with unwanted press attention.
  • Advise publication editors .
  • Provide information to the public.
  • Provide a journalist whistleblowing hotline.

5) Why do some people want stronger regulation of British newspapers? Look at the information above on newspaper regulation to find out more on this.
people want stronger regulation of brtish newspaper because the newspaper industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself using IPSO and that stronger, statutory regulation should be introduced instead. This would also implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry which followed the phone-hacking scandal.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Advertising CSP 3: Represent NHS Blood campaign

Our final close-study product for Advertising and Marketing is the NHS Blood and Transplant online campaign video 'Represent' featuring Lady Leshurr. This product provides an excellent opportunity to explore a range of different representations: ethnicity, masculinity, femininity, class, age, disability and ability and place. It's also a different type of advert as it's not promoting a product but instead is a campaign designed to  influence  the audience's behaviour. Sample questions for Advertising and Marketing In your Media exams, you are likely to get questions similar to these: 1) Why do advertisers use stereotypes? [6 marks] advertisers use sterotypes to have an commuitty to agre and sterotypes also will get attaeion from people that agr ee and dont agree  2) Explain how advertisements reflect the social and cultural contexts in which they were created. [12 marks] Think about how you might answer those questions based on the CSPs we have studied.
Read more

His Dark Materials: Language and Representation blog tasks

1) Write an analysis of the episode - using your notes from the screening in class. Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) You can currently watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here. Camerawork, editing and sound:  Mise-en-scene: Narrative and genre:  You can access our notes from the close-textual analysis in a previous class here - you'll need your Greenford Google login to open this. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the fantasy TV genre? family conevntions by not swearing and being pg age rating adn fantasy by having witches and fling. 3) Applying Propp's character theory, what character roles do some of the main characters in His Dark Materials fit into?  red dress and strng women in more conttol in power like lyra n miss coulter  4) What enigma and action codes (Barthes) can you find in His...
Read more