LECTURE RECORDINGS

Part 1 audiences and users (definitions, theories, concepts, issues)

https://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/uploaded/project/2020_STUDYPLAN/03-2020/886f980b94b1482d8275b97207c73a7a.preview

Part 2 video games (guest speaker: Dr. Larry May)

A – Introduction

https://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/uploaded/project/2020_STUDYPLAN/03-2020/d53964f773ad4479ba939c1980d8a067.preview

B – Popular discourses and debates

https://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/uploaded/project/2020_STUDYPLAN/03-2020/ce68a8a0361e466c8773241fdc8cf7bd.preview

C-The ‘media effects’ perspective

https://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/uploaded/project/2020_STUDYPLAN/03-2020/8e1252b892ad427abf61c02bc44c74cb.preview

D- The ‘media use’ perspective,

https://mediastore.auckland.ac.nz/uploaded/project/2020_STUDYPLAN/03-2020/b8d4e8de1fb34e9ea8f638aedbb4f2a2.preview

SLIDES:

week 4 audiences and users.pdf

week 4 videogames effects and meanings.pdf

Required reading (take notes and bring them to the tutorial, ready to discuss):
Matt Hills 'Audience' (chapter 6) (Links to an external site.) in Jonathan Laurie and Oullette Gray (eds), Keywords for Media Studies, New York: New York University Press, 2017. (Links to an external site.)

Recommended further reading:
'Mass' (chapter 37), and 'Public' (chapter 51) in Keywords for Media StudiesLinks to an external site..

Tutorial preparation:

1. Note down up to two words or concepts that cropped up in the lecture that you found unclear and would like to discuss.

2. Watch the following clip and note down your observations. Consider how the clip constructs a particular narrative about video game use (consider graphics, experts, music, images etc). Think about the ways in which the clip relates to concepts discussed in the lecture - particularly the notion of moral panics.

Video Games TV feature

IS FORTNITE TOO VIOLENT? - A CURRENT AFFAIR (HD) (Links to an external site.)

3. Write down in one beautiful, well-written sentence the central claim you are going to raise in your assignment.

4. Write up a plan that details what each paragraph in your assignment is about and in which order you are going to present them. Write down in one sentence the central point of each paragraph.

5. What conclusions will you draw from your analysis? Note down 2-3 points.