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

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.

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 the social groups that are most likely to use the new media, according to age, social class, gender and location and the reasons for it.

Covers the following key terms

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 ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED - INCLUDING ANALYSIS POINTS

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

Surveillance

Democracy

Commercialisation

Sovereigns of cyberspace

Social capital

Covers the following sociologists:

McNair​

McLuhan​

Fenton (from Topic 2)​

MacKinnon​

Newman and Levy

Makes links to the following key terms students 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

Starter activity includes 10 marker from media topic 3 with detailed scaffolding to help students answer.

Includes a key term sheet for the lesson

ANSWER TO MAIN ACTIVITY INCLUDED

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