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   Blog tasks: The decline in print media Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption 2019 Read  this Ofcom 2019 report on the consumption of news in the UK . Note down the key statistics and changes that Ofcom highlight and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the key findings from the report on pages 2-3. How do UK adults generally get their news?  TV remains the most-used platform for news nowadays by UK adults, 2) Read the overall summary for adults on pages 7-8. What do you notice about the changing way adults are getting their news? Tv remains the most used platform however there has been an overall decrease(79%) Social Media has gone up, nearly half of adults(49%) use it for news 3) Look at the summary of platforms used on page 13. What do you notice about newspapers and how has it changed since 2018? The newspaper has the least amount of composition and it has decreased by 2% in a year.# 4) Now look at the demographic summary for news

    1)  Videogames: Women in videogames 2)  Videogames: Further feminist theory 3)  Learner response: OSP assessment 4)  Videogames: Tomb Raider Anniversary 5)  Videogames - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes 6)  Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 7)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 1 - Language & Audience 8)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 2 - Industries 9)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 3 - Representation 10)  Videogames: Exam question

  To what extent do video game makers target audiences through changing representations? (arguing your viewpoint) Refer to two of your three Videogames Close study products to support your answer.  [25 marks] PLANNNING Intro – your opinion/ thesis statement – link to question and keywords 2 nd para - Tomb Raider – Representations 3 rd para – Sims – Representations 4 th para – Tomb Raider – Audiences / Industries 5 th para – Sims – Audiences / Industries Sim's Freeplay and Tomb Raider has definitely changed its representation to some extent as time passed to target its target audience. The target audience for Sim's Freeplay has been more targeted towards generation Z whereas Tomb Radier is targeted more towards millennials and this has resulted in the representation for Sims to progress further then Tomb Raider. However, some representation in both game is still stereotypical. Tomb Raider can definitely be credited for its representation since Lara Croft is the first female

  1)  Videogames: Women in videogames 2)  Videogames: Further feminist theory 3)  Learner response: OSP assessment 4)  Videogames: Tomb Raider Anniversary 5)  Videogames - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes 6)  Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 7)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 1 - Language & Audience 8)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 2 - Industries 9)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay part 3 - Representation 10)  Videogames: Exam question

Textual analysis Re-watch some of the expansion pack trailers and answer the following questions: 1) How do the expansion pack (DLC) trailers reinforce or challenge dominant ideologies? The chic boutique represents capitalist ideologies and materialism. Teen updates target the specific audience 2) What stereotypes have you identified in The Sims FreePlay? More heterosexual relationships are shown - heteronormativity Most of the videos feature white characters- lack of diversity 3) What media theories can you apply to representations in The Sims FreePlay? masculine toxicity- Men are created to play a certain role Representation reading Read this Forbes article on gender and racism in The Sims franchise and answer the following questions: 1) How realistic does The Sims intend to be? Reflects the life in America in an ideal world. “We’re not really looking for realism, we’re looking more for believability,” 2) How has The Sims tried to create more realistic representations of ethnicit

1) What definitions are offered by the factsheet for ‘feminism ‘and ‘patriarchy’? Feminism is a movement which aims for equality for women – to be treated as equal to men socially, economically, and politically. patriarchy is male dominance in  society 2) Why did bell hooks publish her 1984 book ‘Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center’? She had identified a lack of diversity within the feminist movement, and argued that these diverse voices had been marginalised, being put outside the main body of feminism. 3) What aspects of feminism and oppression are the focus for a lot of bell hooks’s work? Feminism as a struggle to end patriarchal oppression - it should be a serious political commitment rather than a fashionable lifestyle choice. “Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression” 4) What is intersectionality and what do hooks argue regarding this? The term intersectionality is used to describe overlapping or intersecting social identities and related system