AQA A-Level Media Studies studying media products overview quiz quiz

A media product that is made by the students themselves for their coursework portfolio

Any media product that happens to be mentioned somewhere in a published textbook

A specific media text set by AQA for in-depth study using the framework

A media product that is now out of date and no longer available to audiences

Four

Six

Twelve

Nine

To persuade audiences to buy products, services or ideas

To inform audiences impartially and objectively about important events

To regulate and oversee the conduct of other media industries and forms

To classify audiences into demographic and psychographic categories

They contain no stereotypes of any kind because they come from a simpler time

They encode the social attitudes and stereotypes of their time

They are always far more accurate and truthful than any modern adverts are

They deliberately avoid targeting any particular audience group whatsoever

Deliberately avoiding any kind of link between the song lyrics and the visuals shown

Using only completely still photographic images throughout the entire video

A relationship between lyrics, music and visuals, often with edits cut to the beat

Never once showing the recording artist or band anywhere on screen at all

Print journalism and digital online media only

Scripted fiction and factual non-fiction broadcasting

Strictly local stations and international stations only

Public service and commercial

The criteria editors use to decide which events are newsworthy

The cover price that a reader has to pay to buy a copy of the newspaper

The particular political party that a given newspaper openly supports

The total number of regular readers that a particular newspaper has

Ofcom

IPSO

The BBFC

The BBC

The media language framework only

The audiences framework only

The industries framework

The representation framework only

Players are completely unable to influence anything that happens within the game

Games are simply watched passively in the same way as a film or television show

Games do not contain any representations of people, places or social groups at all

Interactivity means players actively shape the experience and often create content

A user who both produces and consumes media content

A professional media producer only, who never consumes any content themselves

A media regulator whose job is to control online platforms and their content

A purely passive viewer who only ever watches and never produces anything

They are all owned and run directly by the national government of each country

Content crosses borders, anyone can publish, and platforms sit outside traditional broadcasting rules

They contain no harmful or offensive content of any kind that would need regulating

They are not actually used by any real audiences at all and so there is simply nothing there to regulate