Learning objectives:
To break down broadsheet newspaper reporting of the London riots with consideration given to mediation.
Key words:
Selection: This is what is chosen by the creators of the text to be included in the text.
This selection may reflect the ideology of the creators.
Editorial:
This is the part of the newspaper supposedly written by the editor who comments on the story of the day. It offers the newspaper an opportunity to express its views and to demonstrate its ideology or values.
Starter: How was the representation of young people constructed in the text below? Discuss.
Mediation relates to construction and selection and is the process that a text may go through before it is consumed by an audience. In the English riots of 2011 news of the event came from a variety of sources and then appeared on the front page of newspapers. With an event like this the audience have to rely on how the event is represented and mediated as they can not witness it first hand.
These are the mediation processes:
Aspects of the event are captured by a camera and this immediately gives a focus through what is included and what is left out. Selection and omission.
One of the main front page images was a track suited, hooded, youth in front of a burning car, this was then anchored by a caption suggesting how the audience should view the image. Anchorage.
A headline gave further interpretation, in this case through the use of emotive and hyperbolic language including lexis such as yob, feral and mob rule. Mode of address.
Within the newspaper, the editorial may offer further opinion offering a representation of the event.
The way in which the event was mediated through the use of images, text and representations of young people impacted on the way in which the audience may respond.
Task 1: Orange books:
Write a paragraph on how the London riots were reported by the Daily Telegraph.
Use media Studies terminology such as polysemic, selection, omission, construction, audience, ideology.
To break down broadsheet newspaper reporting of the London riots with consideration given to mediation.
Key words:
Selection: This is what is chosen by the creators of the text to be included in the text.
This selection may reflect the ideology of the creators.
Editorial:
This is the part of the newspaper supposedly written by the editor who comments on the story of the day. It offers the newspaper an opportunity to express its views and to demonstrate its ideology or values.
Starter: How was the representation of young people constructed in the text below? Discuss.
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These are the mediation processes:
Aspects of the event are captured by a camera and this immediately gives a focus through what is included and what is left out. Selection and omission.
One of the main front page images was a track suited, hooded, youth in front of a burning car, this was then anchored by a caption suggesting how the audience should view the image. Anchorage.
A headline gave further interpretation, in this case through the use of emotive and hyperbolic language including lexis such as yob, feral and mob rule. Mode of address.
Within the newspaper, the editorial may offer further opinion offering a representation of the event.
The way in which the event was mediated through the use of images, text and representations of young people impacted on the way in which the audience may respond.
Task 1: Orange books:
Write a paragraph on how the London riots were reported by the Daily Telegraph.
Use media Studies terminology such as polysemic, selection, omission, construction, audience, ideology.
Task 2: Orange books:
Answer the following question:
How might different audiences respond to the reporting on the riots by the Telegraph.
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