Kenian Media Exam Blog

1) What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated? - Regulation is a rule maintained by authority. - To provide rules and regulations to ensure that organisations operate fairly. 2) What is OFCOM responsible for? - Regulating broadcast media such as TV and radio.   3) Look at the section on the OFCOM broadcasting code. Which do you think are the three most important sections of the broadcasting code and why? - Protecting under-18, Crime and Privacy. Protecting under-eighteen because the young audience should be protected from anything that could harm their innocence. Crime because a lot of people sometimes become influenced by the media, and Privacy because everyone has a right to have their business out of the media. 4) Do you agree with OFCOM that Channel 4 was wrong to broadcast 'Wolverine' at 6.55pm on a Sunday evening? Why? -  Yes because if Channel 4 previously had been putting on child friendly films at a time where most kids would be winding down b...

WWW: There’s a lot of good work here already so now we just need to fill in any gaps and make sure we are fully completing work. I’d say some of your best work so far is the Reading an Image analysis – excellent deconstruction of the meanings in the 50 Cent RBK advert and the advert you’ve chosen is so powerful too. The challenge now is to get that quality and consistency across all of your work and ensure you are meeting deadlines and posting 100% complete tasks.  EBI: Two key areas to improve here: firstly, some of your work is missing or unfinished. You’re actually missing the very first blog task – introductory 10 questions – which I really like to read to get to know people. The questions are on this blogpost so make sure you create the blogpost and answer them on your exam blog:  http://mediamacguffin12.blogspot.com/2023/09/welcome-to-level-media-studies.html After that, you are missing the odd question in places. For Semiotics, you need to answer the two questions on En...

OFCOM REVIEW OF PSB IN BRITAIN 1) Look at page 3. Why is it a critical time for public service broadcasting?  - Audience viewing habits continue to change rapidly and competition from global content providers is ever increasing.  2) Read page 4. How has TV viewing changed in recent years?  - Live broadcast viewing has declined, as audiences increasingly choose to view content at a time that suits them on global online and on-demand content services. 3) Still on page 4, what aspects of PSB do audiences value and enjoy?  - Audiences value the purposes and objectives of PSB, including trustworthy news and programmes that show different aspects of UK life and culture. 4) Look at pages 4-5. Find and note down the statistics in this section on how much TV audiences tend to watch and how they watch it.  - The average viewer now spends over an hour a day watching services like Netflix and YouTube. - We still watch, on average, over three hours of live broadcast TV each ...