AQA A-level Sociology Media: New Media (LESSON BUNDLE)

L1 AQA A-level Sociology: Media - What are the main features of the new media?

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:

Livingstone and Bovill
Jenkins
Lister et al
No starter activity
Answers to Main activity included
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.

L2 AQA A-Level Sociology: Media - Who uses the new media?

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand ‘Who uses the new media?’
Digital divide
Digital underclass

Covers the following sociologists:
Dutton and Black
Jones
Livingstone and Wang
Helsper
Ofcom
Boyle
Ofsted
Li and Kirkup

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 (topic 1, 2, 6 - the features of the new media).

Answers to main activity included

L3 AQA A-level Sociology: Media - The impact the new media has on traditional media

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

Cover the following key terms: Top-down control of the media
Bottom- up control of the media- Cultural chaos

Covers the following sociologists: Reuters Institute for study of Journalism (2005)- McNair (2006)/ Philo (2012) - Newman and Levy (2014)- Bivens (2008)

Key terms you should know: Agenda-setting-News values-Churnalism-Citizen journalism- Primary definers

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

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

Answer to MAIN activity included

No starter activity

Includes two 10 marker (one with item and one without item) and detailed scaffolding to help students write an a paragraph for it.

L4 AQA A-level Sociology Media: New media - Significance of the new media in contemporary society

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the difference between cultural optimists and cultural pessimists view of new media, explain the significance of the new media on contemporary society based on cultural optimists and cultural pessimists’ views and to analyse and evaluate these views.

Covers the following key terms:
Neophiliac ​

Cultural optimist ​

Cultural pessimist

Covers the following sociologists:
McNair​

McLuhan​

Fenton (from Topic 2)​

MacKinnon​

Newman and Levy

Makes links to the following key terms sttuents might know:
New media vs old/ traditional media – Social media – Interactivity – Virtuality – Digitality – Dispersal – Hyper-textuality – Digital divide – Digital underclass - Top-down control of the media - Bottom- up control of the media - Cultural chaos - Tabolidisation – Hyper-reality – Simulacra -Pluralism -

ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED

Includes a 20 marker with detailed scaffolding

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