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Introduction  to radio: blog tasks Create a new blogpost called 'Introduction to Radio' on your  Media 2 Coursework blog  and complete the following tasks: BBC Sounds Read  this Guardian feature on the launch of BBC Sounds  and answer the following questions: 1) Why does the article suggest that ‘on the face of it, BBC Radio is in rude health’? It has half the national market, with dozens of stations reaching more than 34 million people a week. Radio 2 alone reaches 15 million listeners a week and for  all the criticism of the Today programme  (“editorially I think it’s in brilliant shape,” says Purnell), one in nine Britons still tune in to hear John Humphrys and his co-presenters harangue politicians every week. 2) According to the article, what percentage of under-35s used the BBC iPlayer catch-up radio app? just 3% of under-35s use the iPlayer catch-up radio app, which will soon be axed. 3) What is BBC Sounds? BBC Sounds is a walled garden streamin...

  Postmodernism in music video: Blog tasks Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism: 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? If modernism is beginning to question authority, then postmodernism is making fun of authority to its face. Postmodernism takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations and expectations and pushes things a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? In 'The Death of the Author', Roland Barthes challenged tradition when he said that a writer’s opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else’s. Readers are free to interpret a work however they choose, irrespective of what the creator thinks. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text....

T he Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? "It’s an odd, eerie song, nodding to pop convention and sitting wilfully outside of it. It’s included, in passing, in Dorian Lynskey’s beautifully written book on protest songs, “33 Revolutions Per Minute”, but unlike the band’s “Free Nelson Mandela” does not merit its own chapter."  2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? "2 Tone had emerged stylistically from the  Mod and Punk subcultures  and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and bands, were both black and white. Ska and the related Jamaican  Rocksteady  were its musical foundations." 3) What social contexts are discussed regardin...