KEY TERMS: MEDIA TEXT, USES AND GRATIFICATION (ENTERTAINMENT, INFORMATION, PERSONAL IDENTITY, SOCIAL INTERACTION), PROSUMER
Question of the Week:
“What new ideas have you learnt about your role as a media prosumer in the wider media ecology.”
Here is the article for the week to help you think about this.
Get into the habit of reading up about your next Media Lesson. It will be interesting to see how many of you actually visited our blog before this lesson. If you are reading this, then well done you! Always, refer to the key terms at the start of the blog post to know what key and important vocabulary you should be including in your blog post reflections.
TASK
Create a collage with a minimum of 15 – 20 pictures that illustrate your MEDIA DIET
What you read, watch and listen to. In other words what media do you consume?
When you watch, listen and read, you are called a CONSUMER.
Also, what media do you contribute to? What apps, blogs, social media do you add texts, status and click and likes to?
When you interact and contribute to the media, you are called a PROSUMER.
An example – WITH some ideas from media theorists,
Blumler & Katz
You will use ideas described in the Uses and Gratification theory from Blumler and Katz, to indicate which of these media you use for your:
- ENTERTAINMENT
- PERSONAL IDENTITY
- SOCIAL INTERACTION
- EDUCATION AND INFORMATION
Annotate about 6-8 of the examples with E, SI, PI, I to show that you understand how you use media for various needs and pleasures:
You should complete the collage using a single Google Slide, then download it as a jpeg – it will be embedded into your first blog post!