Index so far !

 First Post

Media consumption audit

Semiotics

MIGRAINE- Reading an image - Media codes

Reception theory

MIGRAIN : Genre

Blog feedback and LR

Narrative blog task

MIGRAIN: Audience classification

Audience theory 1 blog task

Audience theory 2

industries ownership and control

Cultural industries

Public service broadcasting

regulation

representation

intro to feminism

everyday sexim

feminist theory and gender!

identity in the online age

ideology

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