YEAR 12 LIT..18th June 2018

In the last session I introduced an Anthology of poetry to assist you when preparing for your COURSEWORK. We discussed how MODERNISM attempted to create a new literary form to capture the experience of the new century. I referred to the work of Picasso and how his work changed in an attempt to find a new form of artistic expression to reflect the complexity of the industrial world. We lionked this to Eliot's LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK.

This is Picasso's work in  1900..

 





















This is Picasso's work in 1907..

Below is a link to a recent interview on Channel Four News with the brilliant poet Bejamin Zephaniah...Click on link below...He is a man with views that are worthy of your attention. READ HIS POETRY. HE IS AN INCREDIBLE TALENT but is not considered canonical. BE AWARE OF HIS EXISTENCE...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zowOkv0Cuhk
Here is his poem..MONEY..1991..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2TiNi9w-XE 

BEN OKRI and the power of poetry..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVvUS2UhcQ
Here is Ben Okri's poem about GREENFELL...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9Ni-IPnAc&t=68s 

TONY HARRISON'S V...this is the film from 1987..Part One..You can navigate from here..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8&t=9s 
This is the poet that we will study for the second paper of the exam. V is an incredibly controversial poem. READ IT..LISTEN TO IT...THINK ABOUT IT...

EXPLORING V...BBC Radio 4 Documentary...Essential resource..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW49WJ0F2HM&t=1064s 
This is the audio recording of the poem from the BBC..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7if44iVP3_I 

Here is a link to my TONY HARRISON PODCAST...
https://soundcloud.com/fishymedia/tony-harrisonthis-pen-is-all-i-have-of-magic-wand

31st MAY...HALF-TERM FINAL SESSION.....

Section A...Texts to generate class discussion..
Trailer..Citizen Four...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM
Absolutely cultured:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-IayPCWvo
Independent article linked to Hull:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3EmLgVVKI
Westworld Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctIuZfSsa4
Black Mirror trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ELQ6u_5YYM
Jonathan Pie..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfxkuC8b2o 

How are media forms or language used to engage the reader?
How is Hull represented in these two texts? [texts 2 and 3]
How is humanity represented in these texts? [texts 1 and 6]
Who is the target audience for texts 4 and 5?

Ackley Bridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGwcgyO5w8 
TEACH FIRST adverts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2zPypEiok
Watch this cracker...!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eTQWyWM-2Y
How is education represented in these two texts?

Questions 2 and 3 will ask you to consider media issues that link in some way to the two texts in the opening question. Students may need to apply MEDIA THEORY and show an awareness of HOW AN AUDIENCE MAY USE a media text. Students need to also be aware of NARRATIVE THEORY.
For example, HOW might an audience gain pleasure from watching a documentary such as Citizen Four , Westworld, or Jonathan Pie?
Students must be able to apply media theory to these kind of questions.
HOW MIGHT THE AUDIENCE GAIN PLEASURE FROM A TEXT? Be aware of the theories that suggest that the audience is passive and asctive.

Question 2....How might an audience gain pleasure from a series such as Westworld?
Question 3 may ask students to consider a wider media issue. It could ba absolutely anything..form the influence of social media to the difficulties of regulating media..Question 3 will demand that you illustrate your underrstanding of current media issues and debates..
IS MEDIA HELPING TO DUMB-DOWN CULTURE?
IS SOCIAL MEDIA HAVING A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR WORLD?
SHOULD WE REGULATE THE INTERNET?


SECTION B...The Impact of New and Digital Media....

I have made it very clear that students will only be successful in Section B if they have indulged in some serious independent research. The whole aim of this section is for students to offer a wide range of media examples when confronting the focus of the question. Conclusions need to be evaluative and powerful. Conclusions need to leave the examiner feeling that you actually care about this subject.

Issues and debates....
REGULATION..When does regulation become censorship? How does regulation differ in different parts of the world?
GLOBALISATION and advantages/disadvantages of global interconnectivity...
AUDIENCE/PRODUCER DEBATE....
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY...Has NDM created a more democratic world?
5 countries that block the web..
https://www.cloudwards.net/internet-censorship/
Internet access statistics UK..
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/householdcharacteristics/homeinternetandsocialmediausage/bulletins/internetaccesshouseholdsandindividuals/2017

Some decent recent resources from my blog....
Humans of New York..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVmdSzKYrOQ
Irish Abortion referendum being hijacked by American pro-life groups:
https://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-bans-foreign-advertisers-during-ireland-abortion-vote
The films of Waad Al-Kateab in Syria..Citizen Journalism that was broadcast by a mainstream news broadcaster..
https://www.channel4.com/news/inside-aleppo-stories-from-the-besieged-syrian-city
This page has some particularly decent links...
http://fishymediaresources.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-24th-y13-resources.html
Note the comments by politicians such as Amber Rudd [now sacked] and Jeremy Hunt. Both blame social media for issues that could actually be caused by thier own policies.
These two links are also packed with relevant resources:
http://fishymediaresources.blogspot.com/2018/03/year-13-23rd-march-2018-resources.html
http://fishymediaresources.blogspot.com/2018/03/year-13-20th-march-2018.html

Y13 22nd May...FINAL WEEK...

HUMANS OF NEW YORK RESOURCE...this is a good example of new and digital media being used by the audience to become the producer and inspire the creative instinct in other people.
BRANDON STANTON....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVmdSzKYrOQ
Humans of...???? Stanton's idea has been used as a starting point for photographers all over the world.

STUDENTS NEED TO CONTINUE TO RESEARCH FOR THEIR CASE STUDY. YOU MUST SUPPORT YOUR CRITICAL ANALYSIS WITH SPECIFIC MEDIA REFERENCE.

Humans of Leeds:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-32834923

YEAR 13 11th May..resources..

Interesting use of 'digital influence' linked to Ireland's Abortion referendum. More evidence that interconnectivity may be problematic. Media issues and debates?
https://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-bans-foreign-advertisers-during-ireland-abortion-vote

Consider the Section A questions from the last session.

AND consider possible content for the SECTION B question...

One of the great benefits of new and digital media is that they have enabled audiences to set their own agenda in terms of how they use media. Does evidence from your case study support this view?

1st May 2018 Y13 Media...

Conservative broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvDYt286IeQ
Scottish Labour broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahjmHlFoiiM 
Labour Party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7kMnefoHY 
LIbDems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlXtinzmkk
Jonathan Pie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfxkuC8b2o

How are media forms used to shape meaning in two of these texts?

Channel Four....
Facebook article..
https://www.channel4.com/news/how-facebook-privacy-changes-could-strengthen-its-power

April 27th Y13 Media...

Robert Fisk...

ROBERT FISK QUOTES....
'Journalism must challenge authority, ALL authority,  especially when governments and politicians take us to war..'

Facebook resource...'A MORALITY FREE ZONE'..
https://www.channel4.com/news/facebooks-technology-officer-faces-questions-from-mps 
Facebook advert?? You Tube..2012..CHAIRS..to celebrate one billion online users...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M23PSy0BtU&t=7s 

How is Facebook represented in these two texts?

'Social media is dangerous.' To what extent do you agree with this statement?

'New Digital Media is little more than a device to manipulate people.'
To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Homework..Plan this essay..It will be a timed response next Friday.

April 24th Y13 resources...

At the moment the mainstream media is being attacked for its bias linked to Syria and Windrush. The mainstream media is being criticised for merely supporting the view of the government and failing to challenge the information being presented to them by government sources.
Here is research from the London School of Economics that concludes that the mainstream media do not represent the views of Jeremy Corbyn in a 'democratic' manner:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/research/research-projects/representations-of-jeremy-corbyn 
The last two paragraphs of the above article summarise the findings of the report.
This article published last week by Owen Jones has caused some controversy...WE CAN NO LONGER PRETEND THAT THE PRESS IS IMPARTIAL...:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/09/no-longer-pretend-british-press-impartial-country-more-leftwing
Peter Oborne writing on the Spectator blog..WE HAVE A MORAL DUTY TO MISTRUST THE GOVERNMENT ON SYRIA:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/has-britain-already-forgotten-about-the-chilcot-report/

Be aware that AMELIA GENTLEMAN'S journalism helped amplify the horror of the Windrush controversy:
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/apr/20/amelia-gentleman-windrush-immigration 
Waad Al-Kateab's brilliant films broadcast by Channel Four in Aleppo...Quality citizen journalism:
https://www.channel4.com/news/inside-aleppo-stories-from-the-besieged-syrian-city 
Nick Davies discovered the phone hacking scandal:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/nick-davies-found
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/04/hack-attack-nick-davies-review-gripping-account-hacking-affair
Channel Four's coverage of the WINDRUSH disgrace and the Cambridge Analytica scandal have been fine examples of investigative journalism.

Novara media's sympathetic view of Owen Jones' article..:
http://novaramedia.com/2018/04/22/the-renewed-bullishness-of-the-british-establishment-media/ 

FACEBOOK continue to be attacked for lack of regulation..Martyn Lewis:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43857921 
Jeremy Hunt attacks social media..
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/22/jeremy-hunt-social-media-firms-failing-safeguard-children-online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43853678
Remember Amber Rudd blaming social media for knife crime..
http://www.itv.com/news/2018-04-08/amber-rudd-to-urge-social-media-firms-to-tackle-gang-related-internet-content-following-spike-in-deadly-violence/

Section A resources:
Conservative local election broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvDYt286IeQ 
Scottish Labour Party broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGL9segt8Fs

How is each text using media forms to shape representation?