YEAR 13 Tuesday 10th May 2016

Today's session considered issues linked to Section A of the exam. The class were shown two texts and asked to consider the question:
HOW IS DIGITAL MEDIA REPRESENTED IN THESE TWO TEXTS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZ3RlMBnk4
https://vimeo.com/145593316
The password for the link above is:KC

The session then moved on to discuss the Section B 'Impact of Digital Media' Question:
'New and digital media is creating one global culture.' To what extent do you agree with this view?
The class discussion was superb. I expect a THREE PARAGRAPH and EVALUATIVE CONCLUSION response to be handed to me on Friday.
Before we began to attack the question we considered the phrase 'one global culture' and considered what this actually means. Class discussion defined this term as the global accessibility of information. Some students considered globalisation as a negative feature of digital culture as it does not encourage individuality or difference and certain global companies such as Google and Apple have far too much power. Class discussion was excellent.

HOMEWORK: Complete the essay.

Potential structure:

The creation of ONE GLOBAL CULTURE could be seen as an advantage with institutions such as Small Candles and Khan Academy democratising knowledge. It is possible to offer information on a global scale to benefit isolated communities. The Small Candles idea is a fine example of one digital community using the global access of digital media to provide practical digital resources that will benefit a community in another part of the world. It is a positive example of the world being 'ONE GLOBAL COMMUNITY'.

We also discussed how access to global News sources allows the UK audience to challenge the influence of subjective UK mainstream media representations. This moves into the Baudrillard argument and the fact that ONE GLOBAL CULTURE is meaningless when attempting to access true news. YOU KNOW THE ARGUMENT!!! Focus on a specific News story to illustrate your view.

The THIRD paragraph could be...ANY of the issues discussed in today's session. I want to see evidence of Independent Research and Critical Autonomy.

The conclusion needs to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of ONE GLOBAL CULTURE.