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Media Analysis: What is the Issue/Problem that Requires a Policy Change/New Policy? - Politics Assignment Help
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Assessment task 2: Media Analysis Intent: Essay This assessment item focusses on understanding the power of the media in influencing health policy and politics. Task: Students are required to analyse a media article that has been specifically selected by the subject coordinator for the purpose of this assignment. The media article and an in-class session, which includes one or more worked examples, will be provided during on campus day 2. Analysing the media article: What is the issue/problem that requires a policy change/new policy?- Overall, is the media article in favour or opposed to the issue? What tactics does the media article use to convince readers? What level of impact will this have?
- Which organisation created the media? (does this influence the article?)
- Was the author a recognised expert in the field?
- What is the media trying to convince you on?
- How balanced and objective is the portrayal of the issue?
- How balanced and objective are the arguments put forward?
- Are there specific terms that stand out? Values-laden terms? Emotive language? What are they and why are they being used?
- How might the public react to it? Why is this important?
- What creative techniques are used to attract the reader’s attention?
- Is the language coloured to present some things as more positive than others?
- How might different people understand this message differently than me?
- What points of view are represented?
- Whose perspectives are missing?
- Is evidence given to support any information and/or view/s?
- Is a balance of evidence for different perspectives given?
- Is there evidence from an authority in the field? Why is this important?
- Are claims attributed to specific sources?
- Study alternative perspectives and world views, learning how to interpret events from multiple viewpoints.
- Seek understanding and insight through multiple sources of thought and information, not simply those of the mass media.
- Learn how to identify the viewpoints embedded in news stories.
- Mentally rewrite (reconstruct) news stories through awareness of how stories would be told from multiple perspectives.
- Analyse news in the same way they analyse other representations of reality (as some blend of fact and interpretation).
- Notice contradictions and inconsistencies in the news (often in the same story).
- Notice the agenda and interests served by a story.
- Notice the facts covered and the facts ignored.
- Notice what is represented as fact (that is in dispute).
- Notice questionable assumptions implicit in stories.
- Notice what is implied (but not openly stated).
- Notice what implications are ignored and what are emphasized.
- Notice which points of view are systematically put into a favourable light and which in an unfavourable light.
- Mentally correct stories reflecting bias toward the unusual, the dramatic, and the sensational by putting them into perspective or discounting them.