AQA A-level Sociology: Media - What are the main features of the new media?

£5.50

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the main features of the new media.

Cover the following key terms:

  • Technological convergence

  • Cultural convergence

  • Collective intelligence

  • Participatory culture

  • Blogsphere

  • Digitality

  • Digital underclass

  • Dispersal

  • Hyper-textuality

  • Interactivity

Covers the following sociologists:

  1. Livingstone and Bovill

  2. Jenkins

  3. Lister et al

Starter activity is based on media representations of sexuality and disability

Answers to Main activity included

Includes a key term sheet for the lesson (excluding the five main features of the new media which can be found in the answers for the main activity).


Plenary requires students to apply knowledge to a 10 marker with an item and recap how to select hooks in the item. Brief answers to this included.

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the main features of the new media.

Cover the following key terms:

  • Technological convergence

  • Cultural convergence

  • Collective intelligence

  • Participatory culture

  • Blogsphere

  • Digitality

  • Digital underclass

  • Dispersal

  • Hyper-textuality

  • Interactivity

Covers the following sociologists:

  1. Livingstone and Bovill

  2. Jenkins

  3. Lister et al

Starter activity is based on media representations of sexuality and disability

Answers to Main activity included

Includes a key term sheet for the lesson (excluding the five main features of the new media which can be found in the answers for the main activity).


Plenary requires students to apply knowledge to a 10 marker with an item and recap how to select hooks in the item. Brief answers to this included.