Newspaper quiz

1 – Name 3 key differences between a broadsheet and a tabloid newspaper?

  • Broadsheet is bigger
  • Tabloid - more gossip
  • Tabloid less formal    
2 – Define Polysemy

Multiple meanings


    
3 – Define Bias

When someone has strong feelings or ideas about something so they base their writing on their opinions 
    
4 – What are two ways newspapers can be biased?

Politically biased

Selection (choosing a photo to represent someone in a certain way) and emission (leave out information)

    
5 – Define Agenda

What the newspaper is aiming to do/achieve
    
6. What is ideology?

A producers beliefs or ideas, used to change ideology of audience
    
7. What are the four steps of representation? 


    
1. The group, place or issue on which a media text is focusing.
2. Technical devices used
3. message about group being represented
4. Impact of the message on the target audience 

8. Define hegemony
Where one thing has power over another group over consent    (patriarchal hegemony, females wear makeup to look pretty)


9. What is the difference between sexualisation and objectification?

Sexualisation - to make something sexual

Objectification - To describe or treat someone like an object
    
10. What does Liesbet Van Zoonen theorise about gender?

Feminist theory, Gender constructed through discourse, womens bodies are their to be looked at.

   
11. What, arguably, is the difference between sex and gender?

Sex is either a male or female, what you are, whereas gender is a performance, what they choose to be
    
12. What is the biggest selling newspaper in the UK? 

The Sun

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