Media study guides

A complete overview of audiences in Eduqas A-Level Media Studies. Explains targeting and categorising audiences, Blumler and Katz (uses and gratifications), Gerbner (cultivation), Hall (reception theory), and Shirky and Jenkins (the end of audience and participatory culture), and the Explain and essay question types the area rewards.

A complete overview of the Cross-Media Production NEA in Eduqas A-Level Media Studies. Explains the individual cross-media production in two forms, the annual Eduqas brief, the Statement of Aims and Intentions, applying the framework to production, and how the NEA is assessed and moderated. Always work from the current Eduqas brief.

A complete overview of the media in depth forms and the written papers in Eduqas A-Level Media Studies. Explains Television in the Global Age, Magazines (mainstream and alternative) and Online Media in Component 2, the set products and the five contexts, and the structure and skills of both written exams. Confirm your set products with your centre.

A complete overview of media industries in Eduqas A-Level Media Studies. Explains production, distribution and circulation, Curran and Seaton (ownership and power), Hesmondhalgh (cultural industries and risk) and Livingstone and Lunt (regulation), and the Explain and extended question types the area rewards across Components 1 and 2.

A complete overview of media language in Eduqas A-Level Media Studies. Explains semiotics (Barthes), narrative (Todorov, Levi-Strauss), genre (Neale) and postmodernism (Baudrillard), the technical and print codes of close analysis, and the Analyse and essay question types the area rewards.

A complete overview of representation in Eduqas A-Level Media Studies. Explains Hall (construction and stereotyping), van Zoonen and bell hooks (feminist theory), Butler (gender performativity), Gilroy (ethnicity and postcolonial theory) and Gauntlett (identity), and the Analyse and essay question types the area rewards.