MEDIA THEORY
Glossary; Media Literacy Key Concepts; Terms common to all media; Media Conventions; Genre; Ideology; Realism and Representation ; McLuhan Summary; Media Theory Overview
Websites: McLuhan ; PG's Radio Teaching Site (useful for close analysis of radio drama production in Question 1)
MEDIA REGULATION
General: Freedom, Regulation and Control (pdf)
Press: What is the Press Complaints Commission ? (also mp3); PCC Editors' Code(also mp3);
Film: Censorship History (also mp3); Censorship in Hollywood -Hays Code (also mp3); The BBFC Classification Process (also mp3) ; Case Studies in Censorship (also mp3); Petely and Barker on Censorship; BBFC Statement on The Exorcist; BBFC Statement on Crash
MEDIA AUDIENCES
Audience and Media Effects; Audience Effects (Powerpoint) Media Effects - Gauntlett (also mp3); How Children Interprete Screen Violence; Effects Research Glossary
Websites: BBFC Student Website; Press Complaints Commission