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articles to help with question 4s

June 2013 -  suggest that a home can be more than simply a place to live.

Think of a place you call home.

Discuss the significance of this place in terms of your culture and your identity.

http://pulptastic.com/james-mollison-where-children-sleep/ 
Kids bedrooms. what they tell us about their identity

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/sleep-in-america-2014_n_4876677.html
the cultural products we have in bedrooms can take over our lives

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nash-riggins/uk-homelessness-government-doesnt-care_b_4860547.html
is the government actually tackling the property crisis, mortgage rates and homelessness?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/13/uk-weather-residents-batt_n_4779016.html ]
the somerset floods causing horrific damage to peoples homes. 
just commodities being ruined? something more special? 


June 2012 - As a Communication and Culture student, explore some of the meanings of the ‘tourism experience’ (going on holiday).

http://www.channel4.com/news/slum-tourism-poverty-kenya-kibera-africa-jamal-osman 

a very strange appeal of Kenya slums by Western tourists

but its improving the country's economy

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/south-korea-ferry-disaster-tourism-hit-hard-accident-20140424

the disaster of a country can affect more than the locals

http://www.edp24.co.uk/what-s-on/your_ultimate_guide_to_easter_monday_1_3563494

Easter weekend; spend it in this country (we need the money), it is a time for family

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/10/20-per-cent-parents-fined-unauthorised-holidays

going on holiday can break the law.....

just because its the school holidays, we shouldnt be allowed to leave and have a break, We must LEARN

image based question 4s

January 2011

A group of primary school children has devised a website which includes advice about

how to behave when in England. The screen shot below is from that website. Read this

carefully before attempting the task below.

  Task:

 Using your knowledge of cultural practices and non-verbal communication, discuss the

implications of the advice given here. (20 marks)

January 2013

What can you, as a student of Communication and Culture,

suggest about the meanings of cultural practices and

products in this image?

 (20 marks)

past question 4s for Com&Cul

June 2013

‘Home is where the heart is.’

‘It ain’t a house, it’s a home.’

‘To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with the

things we believe are most important.’

Task: These sayings suggest that a home can be more than simply a place to live.

Think of a place you call home.

Discuss the significance of this place in terms of your culture and your identity.

(20 marks)

June 2012

Tourism appeals to the human imagination. As an activity it knows no bounds: it is

global and it affects the environment it occurs in, the people who host it, the economies

it seeks to benefit and the tourists who consume it as an experience, product and an

element of their lives. (Stephen Page, Tourism Management: An Introduction)

 As a Communication and Culture student, explore some of the meanings of the

‘tourism experience’ (going on holiday). (20 marks)

June 2011

When A-level Communication and Culture was launched in 2008, it was not well

received in all quarters. Several newspapers, including the Daily Mail, questioned the

legitimacy of an A-level dealing with popular culture and everyday life. Read the extract

from the Daily Mail, 26 May 2008, before attempting the task below.

For anyone who spent two years poring over the intricacies of the War of the Spanish

Succession to scrape an A-level in foreign history, it may be best to look away now.

You might have felt duty bound in those days to ration the time you spent shopping,

listening to pop music or discussing dates.

But there is no such problem for today’s teenagers...because they can get a

qualification in it.

As part of a controversial A-level in popular culture, pupils will learn about the tradition

of kissing in cinemas and ponder such questions as ‘is skateboarding better than polo?’.

The qualification, being offered by the country’s biggest exam board from September,

also entails a study of celebrity body images and allows pupils to write about clothes

and hairstyles.

One assignment requires them to ‘explore the relationships between cinema-going and

dating’ with the aid of source material like The Drifters hit Kissin’ in the Back Row of the

Movies.

Another asks students to describe the cultural significance of their bedrooms and

friends.

The A-level in ‘communication and culture’ is billed by the Assessment and

Qualifications Alliance as ‘excellent preparation’ for higher study.

The course spec insists the ‘everyday is worthy of study’ but critics are concerned it will

lack academic rigour.

They also warn it could help schools maintain strong league table positions while

sidelining disciplines such as history and English literature.

 Task:

 How do you respond, as a student of this AS level, to the Daily Mail’s attack?

 (20 marks)

i found this absolutely hilarous!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/12/frozen-gay-propaganda-christian-pastor-colorado

apparently the Disney film Frozen is blasphemy and promotes gay and lesbian ideology upon 5 year olds.

i understand the points they bring up like Elsa's song Let it Go as it can be seen to discuss the freedom given when coming out and being comfortable with your identity (sexuality). 
yet it is just an innocent children's cartoon!  

articles about popular culture practices and products which allow individuality

The constant battle between British and American styles of music -

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/07/blurs-girls-boys-britpop-american-grunge



Singer Kesha has dropped the $ from her name after coming out of rehab - 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/10/kesha-rehab-eating-disorder-new-name



our love of celebrities taking one step further: Famous Rich and Hungry (new documentary for Sport Relief) 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/benefits-street-poverty-porn-celebrity-bbc



the need for constant news and the status of celebrity blurs with criminal or sportsman?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10680027/Oscar-Pistorius-bet-Congratulations-Paddy-Power-youve-offended-130000-people.html
- this is just so beyond wrong. How can you bet on the outcome of a murder of a young woman?

semiotic and process analysis of images (homework)

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the sender is Spotify and the teenagers.
the receiver is us as we are the camera but we are not addressed by the subjects in the picture.

the message is telling us that music allows you to be who you want 

but the semiotics can tell us more than that:

- its clearly young people in the image so we can tell who the advert is targeted at.
but why are they topless? is it stereotyping teenagers: they get drunk at parties and strip and dance to seemingly rubbish music. 

is this saying that you shouldn't listen to others who judge you and just listen to the music that you want and dance how you want (no matter how stupid you look) 

of course music can't judge but its a signifier to young people who feel judged that they should use spotify to get music and block out the disapproving (usually parents)