Research Essay
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Here are the questions -
1. What is the difference between blogging and journalism? Is there a difference? Explain your views with examples.
2. We need rules of etiquette for digital media. Argue the case both for and against.
3. According to Jenkins and Deuze (2008), convergence must be understood as ‘both a top-down corporate-driven process and a bottom-up consumer-driven process.’ Explain this contradiction and its implications today
4. What is the cultural imperialism hypothesis? How does it differ from the idea of cultural convergence?
5. What are the implications of convergence and ongoing cultural change for journalists and media workers in today’s workplace?
6. Why and how is Australia’s ‘public broadcaster’, the ABC, intrinsically different from commercial radio networks? What role, if any, should it continue to play in the new digital environment?
7. Explain why contemporary cultural industries are ‘under tremendous financial strain’ (Holt and Perren, 2011) and assess the steps they have made towards developing new business models. Discuss with respect with to TWO (2) media industries.
8. How is the mediasphere changing? Is there still a private sphere? Explain your argument with examples.
9. Comment on the assertion about the Gulf War in the Textbook (p.152) that “the military preferred to manage the media in such a way that there was no possibility of Vietnam-style imagery and reporting that could jeopardise the possibility of victory”. Does contemporary war reporting adhere to the hegemonic or pluralist schools of media thought?
10. Define what Edward Bernays means by ‘engineering consent’ and what Chomsky and Herman mean by ‘manufacturing consent’. How do these terms relate to or differ from public relations?
11 Is WikiLeaks the most significant development in journalism in the past half century, or is it simply a repository website where disaffected citizens can upload ‘secret’ material?
12 What role, in your view, will the mainstream news media (the Fourth Estate) play in the twenty-first century multi-media, global, digital world? Justify your views.
13 How does television contribute towards ideas of the nation? Explain with examples.
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