MIGRAIN: Final index

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  1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions

2)Media consumption audit
3) Semiotics blog tasks
4) Language: Reading an image - media codes
5)Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet
6)Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis
7)Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions
8)Narrative: Factsheet questions
9)Audience classification: blog tasks
10)Learner response
11)Audience Theory 1
12)Audience Theory 2
13)Ownership and control
14)Cultural industries
15)public service broadcasting
16)Regulation
17)MIGRAIN: Introduction to feminism
18)Feminist theory: blog tasks
19)Blog tasks: Ideology
20)MIGRAIN: Collective identity in the online age

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