Princess’ A-level media exam blog

  1) What does the term 'Cultural Industries' actually refer to? The term 'cultural industry' refers to the creation, production and distribution of products of a cultural or artistic nature. 2 ) What does Hesmondhalgh identify regarding the societies in which the cultural industries are highly profitable?  Hesmondhalgh identifies that the societies in which the cultural industries are highly profitable tend to be societies that support the conditions where large companies, and their political allies, make money. These conditions being: constant demand for new products: minimal regulation outside of general competition law; relative political and economic stability; workforces that are willing to work hard. 3) Why do some media products offer ideologies that challenge capitalism or inequalities in society? Some media texts tend to offer ideologies which challenge capitalism or the inequality of gender and racism in society. This happens because the cultural industry nee...

  Media conglomerate research 1) Type up your  research notes  from the lesson - what did you find out about your allocated media conglomerate? Selection of companies: Alphabet,  The Walt Disney Company,  National Amusements,  Meta,  News Corp,  Time Warner, Comcast. If you were absent or didn't have time in the lesson to make these notes, research  any one  of the companies above and find examples of all the terminology outlined in the notes at the start of this blogpost. Conglomerate ownership: Google, Youtube, Fitbit, Waze. Vertical/Horizontal integration:  Horizontal -   Google drive for cloud storage, Google docs for working with documents and spreadsheets, Google picture storage systems, music, software shops, book distribution, and on and on.   Vertical -  Google is almost completely vertically integrated. They have their own technology or own infrastructure pretty much every step of the way. Let's work fr...