Essay Title/Topic
- Hyperreality, News Content and the Media.
Main issues addressed by argument
- The impossibility of the apparent objectivity of news reporting
- Affects of media ideology on the 'image' created by subjective news reporting
- New media, and McLuhan's theory of the medium as the message, and how this has affected the 'image' created by news reporting
- Media utilization of the 'value' of signs in the press and reporting
Visual Material
- Season 5 of the television series 'The Wire', which follows 'media consumption' as a theme. As well as other work by the series' writer, David Simon.
- Charlie Brooker's NewsWipe
- Structure and layout of various publications, physical and online
Theoretical Approach
- Reality and Hyperreality
Specific Theorists and Writers
- Jean Baudrillard
- Roland Barthes
- Marshall McLuhan
- Ferdinand De Saussure
- David Simon
Books/Articles already located
- Baudrillard, J, (1983). Simulations. Translated From French by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beckman. USA: Semiotext(e)
- Baudrillard, J., (1991). The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. Translated from French by Paul Patton. Indiana University Press.
- Barthes, R., (1977). Image Music Text. London: Fontana Press
- Eldridge, J., (1995). Glasgow Media Group Reader, Volume 1: News Content, Language and Visuals. London: Routledge
- McLuhan, M., (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
- Alia, V., 2004. Media Ethics and Social Change. Edinburgh University Press.
