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1) List the different people/groups represented in the trailer (men/women/Americans etc.) There're very popular representation like masculine man, soft women, foreign villains, good Americans, America as a safe country, Europe as a dangerous one. 2) For each group you identify, decide whether the representation is a dominant or alternative portrayal. Explain why you think this. All of them are a dominant portrayal. From the trailer all I can tell is that there's nothing alternative about it. It's the perfect example of fully dominant representation.  3) What stereotypes can you identify in the trailer?  It's a very stereotypical movie that have everything that we can put in an American action movies: men are powerful and need to safe their women from the arms of a foreign villains. 4) Why might the Taken trailer offend or alienate certain groups? They definitely alienate American white man and America over all...

1) What does the term 'Cultural Industries' actually refer to? Cultural industries combine the creation, production, and distribution of goods and services that are cultural in nature and usually protected by intellectual property rights. 2) What does Hesmondhalgh identify regarding the societies in which the cultural industries are highly profitable? Profitable countries like UK or USA are usually dominated by the biggest companies, and have a huge inequality between the poor and the rich. 3) Why do some media products offer ideologies that challenge capitalism or inequalities in society? 4) Look at page 2 of the factsheet. What are the problems that Hesmondhalgh identifies with regards to the cultural industries? Risky business Creativity versus commerce High production costs and low reproduction costs Semi-public goods; the need to create scarcity 5) Why are so many cultural industries a 'risky business' for the companies involved? Even if the pro...

1) Type up your research notes from the lesson - what did you find out about your allocated media conglomerate? Selection of companies: Alphabet, The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, 21st Century Fox, Facebook, Viacom, News Corp, Time Warner. If you were absent or don't have the notes, research any of the companies above and find examples of all the terminology outlined in the notes at the start of this blogpost. Alphabet   It was created through a corporate restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. The two founders of Google assumed executive roles in the new company, with Larry Page serving as CEO and Sergey Brin as president. Alphabet's portfolio encompasses several industries, including technology, life sciences, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries include Googl...

1) What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated? It's a system that provides rules and regulations to make sure that all the organisations are fair. The regulation is needed to set a age limit in films and video games to provide children to see things like horror movies.  2) What is OFCOM responsible for? OFCOM is responsible for granting licences to TV and Radio stations. It is necessary and it's illegal for  TV broadcasting and Radio stations to air without it.  3) Look at the section on the OFCOM broadcasting code. Which do you think are the three most important sections of the broadcasting code and why? Section 2: Harm and Offence,  Section 7: Fairness and  Section 8: Privacy. I think they are the most important because those are the things that are the most important in everyday life. For example, the privacy of celebrities is often disturbed and something comes up on the media that no one should be able release information th...