AQA A-level Sociology Media: New media - The impact the new media have had on traditional/ old media

£4.50

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students to identify and explain the impact the new media has had on old media.

Covers the following key terms:

Top-down control of the media

Bottom- up control of the media

Cultural chaos/ anomie

Covers the following sociologists:

Reuters Institute for study of Journalism (2005)

McNair (2006)/ Philo (2012)

Newman and Levy (2014)

Bivens (2008)

Covers the following key terms that students might have previously learnt:

Agenda-setting - News values – Churnalism -

Citizen journalism - Primary definers -

Infotainment - Concentration of ownership -

Traditional/ old media - New media -

Interactivity – Passive vs active audience

Requires the information in textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law.

Starter allows students to recap some key terms they might have learnt so far in the media unit (e.g. topic 1, 2 & 3 - the features of the new media).

Answers to main activity included

Includes key term and definition sheet for lesson (new and for previously learnt key terms that link).

Includes two 10 markers - item and no item with detail scaffolding included

DETAILED ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED.