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Social media - useful for paper one

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rpsl/click-whats-next-for-big-tech?fbclid=IwAR3UAu_UBrxEDOfRIxlLQiAn8R_V4Y1J0FrJUQ5Q0JoCEjsGrXvn4gOaX3E

Distanced learning support from examboard

 https://www.ocr.org.uk/blog/distance-learning-resources-for-media-and-film-studies/?utm_campaign=RT04%20-%20Media%20and%20Film&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-90DyYYYyhuKG5q7RbIroURv9b_z9S54_kViRLcvy9_-zqfCv6uYH0j5Cbut0YPpZ3lN1ldirFCmOX0bIr0Ish7hqZKKw&utm_source=hs_email&utm_content=107218356&hsCtaTracking=48c00f0b-298c-4ae0-b991-9f50e9de6c03%7C1c53cf12-8948-4897-a747-84e840c19546 So. Many. Resources. 

TLDR: news

 https://www.youtube.com/c/TLDRNews/videos Some really great videos to watch that will get you up to speed on many events

Curran and Seaton in conversation

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtVjOR4QGQ&fbclid=IwAR1_WmSyqh070aNME5F6_yIFYd2_hDbiVrwQgyVAlI6dOxfrKIrrClh7psI Hearing them referred to as Seaton and Curran is a big shock, and to find out that they don't always agree with each other!

Google and news media

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55760673?fbclid=IwAR2L53HvrX65NyxRaTxvQqz72EfhK49Grryh1MAakSQla5g-4CpwMifNjU4

Mention of the Guardian

 https://www.thedrum.com/news/2020/04/17/uk-gov-enlists-newspapers-vast-stay-home-coverwrap-campaign?utm_campaign=Newsletter_Weekly_Media&utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR12C5QQ2r8U8a4ET2eRMscpQotcTdy1X0gPuPWlfReB8nQQPlfwUnPnpOw

Netflix info

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55723926?fbclid=IwAR0qvouWi3n5W4SFSjc5XAPan0WeZgkD2PuxhJImDLDMpsevfrPVfjTF2CA

Streaming wars

  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/21/amazon-wins-49-of-new-tv-streaming-customers-in-run-up-to-christmas

BBC funding and audience

  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/20/bbc-faces-financial-uncertainty-due-to-reliance-on-licence-fee-report?fbclid=IwAR2i4-GDe_AIbduGNHNTXxofgJZW3v4r6P2y5Jhhbq6ZaPvwz-pOWS3YsLo

Interesting in terms of audience/right wing media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qh1b/hardtalk-christopher-ruddy-ceo-of-newsmax-media

Review of the Media year

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qtkt/review-2020-5-the-media-year

Minecraft under lockdown

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qx14

Free speech/censorship/Twitter

 Really good for Paper 1, question 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r4vm

Free Zoom with Judith Butler!

  https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/leaders-shape-judith-butler/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=event+%7C+virtual+%7C++%7C+Events&utm_content=Events&utm_term=20210115&fbclid=IwAR0kW_YDKobSQkWTrRiTezbaTiwXj04qIidB1qHKIyADE3bKQHZkD8uRX9k

History of the a daily Mail

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2xZKYkT9gDuYTx_T6sLYjl3VTho77_aOEoJyuzrkDaMmFwRzNoRSVVP5E&v=tgsAct6n8aY&feature=youtu.be

BBC licence fee

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55666242

Excellent podcast re bell hooks

  https://rss.com/podcasts/nobraswereharmed/94394/

Interesting re Gilroy and colonialism

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/14/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-colonialism-zimbabwe-simukai-chigudu

Political leaning in UK news

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/13/britain-tv-news-right-gb-bbc

GREAT WATCH: think about the role of the media and the concepts of Baudrillard

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation Warning - there's some gruesome scenes. Proceed with care if you find scenes with blood upsetting. 

Social media

 https://uk.pcmag.com/news/119486/what-does-big-tech-know-about-you-basically-everything

The science of Stranger Things

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0910g2w/the-scienceish-of-stranger-things?fbclid=IwAR3JV_9-OSpHdZs3-OnpaecJV0ypWq0hcTmIkAnJTYriMN8F78cWV2S0gpI

News censorship

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55544205?fbclid=IwAR3B4X7WZWwKkYFee9OCz781TGA6cbyM0aWeWXuWVo19VfS91jqK2W8JVv8

Link to celebratory culture in red top and mid-market tabloids

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qsk1?fbclid=IwAR0R56Tk9-3miogrt9z_gvbzmDGbGdP5wsLVMsyQkasBw9VMszJG13iroRs

Next BBC chairman

 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/former-goldman-sachs-banker-richard-sharp-to-be-next-bbc-chairman?fbclid=IwAR1P3rlqm9pjExjqvXulKVgZXW5tGOaIy4ulei2YJrJso1ZdLguqLfBYRuo What a surprise! It's a white man. Revolutionary. 

Scott Trust

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj9iRYPMQXY&fbclid=IwAR0LhO_yLfUNh3QyBSQ5RdliC0yAAZaDGaW95S9Vcbul1RRe72ouh6EjnYY

Guardian - past and present

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRxJsUAhdM&fbclid=IwAR0R56Tk9-3miogrt9z_gvbzmDGbGdP5wsLVMsyQkasBw9VMszJG13iroRs

Interesting re regulation (Livingstone and Lunt)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55609903?fbclid=IwAR01BExbrizXxQLXJm_V2W6Vqe1t6US9QjdgKhGg8t0_P9Ii6WL0aF8W5Qo