Assignment - Media, Culture and Society

Pick up one topic from below 12 questions choose one you can do the best.

1. 'We know that women are represented in the media differently from the way men are represented. The question is why this happens.' Discuss.

2. How do media affect the thoughts-and actions of audiences? Do media differ in the influence that they exert? Evaluate the main approaches to media effects research.

3. Are social media significantly different from other forms of media both in how they operate and in how they affect the wider society?

4. Should journalists work for their employers, or for their readers and viewers, or should they be truly independent, and not work for anyone by the truth?

5. 'All media are subject to some form of state control, some more so than others.' Discuss with reference to at least TWO national media systems.

6. What reforms are necessary to create a democratic media? Discuss with reference to ONE media system.

7. 'Media systems are essentially accessories or extensions of their political systems'. Discuss with reference to THREE media systems.

8. How is the law used to regulate media practice and media content?

9. What drives change in media systems - is it economics or technology or some other factor?

10. Are the media and cultural industries just business like any other industry, or are they special?

11. Why do global media flows matter?

12. 'Hollywood films and other products of the culture industries are not the result of the talent of actors and directors and others, but of the tastes and expectations of audiences.' Discuss.

Total 5000 words and Harvard style.