13C: January assessment learner response

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).

• good application of some theories/debates
• provides examples of the power influence of media
• conglomerates, including referring to Pareto's law.

2) Read through the mark scheme. Of the six different statements, write which you think is currently your strongest and which is weakest. Explain WHY and, for the weakest, what you are going to do to improve in that area.

Critical autonomy


3) Read through the exemplar A grade essay. What does this essay offer that yours does not? Identify THREE things you can take from this essay to improve your own responses in future.

• focuses on the question throughout the essay and gives a wide range of examples.
• keywords 
• quotes 

4) Write ONE new paragraph for your January assessment essay. Ideally, this should be a section you did not cover in your original essay. This paragraph needs to be comprehensive and meet the criteria for Level 4 of the mark scheme.


...However;  a Marxists perspective on the impact of new and digital media would be that participants are not able to participate equally; due to gatekeepers who manipulate how we react to different medias. Allan de botton states 'the new is very nature bias' which shows that their are ruling bodies behind the media who control us by voicing their opinions. This hegemony belief and value can be reinforced by paretos law -the idea that a minority of producers are serving a majority of consumers could be challenged.