AQA A-level Sociology: Media Topic 1 Ownership and control Revision lesson

Detailed and diiferentiated (up and down), student led lesson that recaps:

• patterns of ownership
• the mainpulative, hegemonic and plurlaist approach to media ownerhsip and control
• formal and informal controls of media output or content.

References the following concepts: Agenda-setting  Gate-keeping   News values  Marxism    Structuralism vs Interactionism    
Ownership  Ideology  Capitalism   False consciousness   Neo-Marxism
Lords of the Global Village  Formal and informal methods of control.

ANSWERS INCLUDED FOR SOME MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED**
RESOURCES FOR LESSON CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PTT
Made for AQA A-level but can be easily used for other specs (just need a different source of information/ textbook)
**Based on the content in 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **