Theoretical Framework

Question 1

Media Industries

Answer 1

How the media industries’ processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms

Question 2

Audiences​

Answer 2

How media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them, and how members of audiences become producers themselves.

Question 3

Representation

Answer 3

How the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups

Question 4

Historical Contexts

Answer 4

• The effect of historical context on representations
• How media products relate to the time in which they were made and set through their representations, discourses and ideologies
• How audience responses to and interpretations of media representations reflect historical circumstances

Question 5

Social and Cultural Contexts

Answer 5

• How media products relate to the social and cultural contexts in which they were made and set through their representations, discourses and ideologies
• • How media products are shaped or informed by particular cultural influences such as genres, styles, movements and the work of other media producers
• How audience responses to and interpretations of media products reflect social and cultural circumstances

Question 6

Industry Contexts (including economic and political contexts)​

Answer 6

• How media products relate to their industry contexts, for example in terms of economic and political factors such as globalisation, ownership, funding and regulation, and through their representations, discourses and ideologies