EDUQAS 2024 ONWARDS A2 COMP 1, PARTYGATE: REP & CONTEXTS IN 'THE TIMES' & THE 'DAILY MIRROR'

LESSON 6-10 IN THIS 15 LESSON UNIT. This lesson looks at REPRESENTATION and CONTEXTS in the ‘Daily Mirror’ and ‘The TImes’. It includes:

-What is representation and what does it concern?
-Mediation and construction
-Selection and combination/ omission
-Soft news V Hard news
-‘Dead Cat’ politics
-Partisan and objective journalism
-Fake news/ declining trust in print journalism

A breakdown of left, right-wing ideologies and centrism with political spectrum task based on other unseen newspapers from the 1st Feb 2022.
Deconstruction of two set newspaper covers and one unseen against selection and omission.
Media concentration supported with Mark Dixon infographic
Passive V active audiences
Cultural capital
Application of Stuart Hall to two set newspaper covers
Ideological state apparatus
4th V 5th estate
Two-step flow
Citizen journalism
Participatory culture
-Application of David Gauntlett
-In depth visual breakdown and planning task/ carouselPrint resource: the front page of The Sun, published on 9th December 2021, the day after the Conservatives were accused of holding a 2nd party in Downing street.

• the front page and article from the The Times you have studied, published 1st February 2022.

Compare how these pages from The Sun and The Times construct versions of reality. In your answer you must:

• consider the choices media producers make when constructing versions of reality

• consider the similarities and differences in the representations

• make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the representations relate to relevant media contexts.

**IMPORTANT: This resource includes a Framework H/W pack, printable power point/Word worksheets and notes in the notes section to support and guide teachers/ learning.

Whilst I have embedded a variety of videos, due to blocks on school accounts/ restrictions, if they do not **work, please see the links in the notes section of each slide.

The power point also includes theoretical framework + additional theorist slides at the end of the power point to aid differentiation/ scaffolding etc.

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school operates a two year A-Level; AS (YEAR 12) AND A2 (YEAR 13).
Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS AS/ A2 Revision Guides/ Mark Dixon’s ‘Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide’

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