From newspapers and magazines to podcasts and television — a complete guide to analysing media texts critically, plus a ten-lesson program.
How media constructs reality — news, representation, audience, ownership, gatekeeping, and the techniques of print and broadcast forms.
Open the Guide →Ten lessons — from reading the news to analysing a podcast — each with a media-analysis task and exam-style question.
Open the Lessons →Media texts inform, persuade and entertain, and they are never neutral. In Stage 6 English, students examine newspapers, magazines, podcasts, radio and television programs, analysing how media constructs reality, targets audiences, and negotiates power and representation.