COM3703 - Media Studies: Content, Audiences And Production (COM3703)
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COM3703 ASSIGNMENT 01 (UNISA)
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................1
2. QUANTITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS........................................................................................................1
2.1 A definition of content analysis and its purpose...............................................................................1
2.2 Three advantages of content analysis...............................................................................................2
2.3 Whether the research to be conducted in the scenario will be descriptive or explanatory..............3
2.4 Research problem.............................................................................................................................3
2.5 Two suitable research questions.......................................................................................................3
3 NARRATIVE ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................................4
3.1 Three narrative assumptions.............................................................................................................4
3.2 One hour-long television series episode............................................................................................5
3.2.1 The name of the television series...............................................................................................5
3.2.2 Categories of dramatis personae................................................................................................5
3.2.3 An example of a donor and a dispatcher in the chosen television series....................................5
3.3 A narrative to occur in a setting or geographic place....................................................................6
3.3.1. The two types of places.............................................................................................................6
3.3.2. An example of the two places discussed in the television series...............................................6
3.4 A semic code in the chosen television series................................................................................7
4 FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM...................................................................................................................8
Participant observation............................................................................................................................8
4.1 The difference between film criticism and film analysis................................................................8
4.2 The four forms of film historiography based on the work of Allen and Gomery............................9
4.3 Example of each of the four forms...............................................................................................10
5. MEDIA AUDIENCE THEORY....................................................................................................................11
5.1. The research problem for the proposal..........................................................................................11
5.2. Assumptions of reception theory....................................................................................................11
5.3. Examples of each of the above-mentioned assumptions...............................................................12
6. CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................13
7. SELF-ASSESSMENT AND SELF-REFLECTION............................................................................................14
SOURCES CONSULTED:..............................................................................................................................15
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