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=Welcome to our WSC scholarship wiki= Welcome to the new 2012 scholars! For our next meeting could you please read the following article about Media Futures and come prepared to discuss it; []

Delicious links for 2012

And don't forget to sign up for the facebook group!

16/6/11 Here are the essay topics for you to do by **Wednesday June 29th. You can e-mail it to me or bring it along to the tutorial.** You need to be prepared to discuss what you discovered and wrote about. The brainstorm we did at the meeting is on the sheet with the questions. Don't forget to look at the close reading and genre pages on this wiki and to use the handouts (see me if you missed them) and the delicious links at: 23/5/11 The information/readings/things to think about for our tutorial on 1st June is on the Close Reading page Please read it.

13/5/11 As requested, here is the link to the delicious delicious [] Remember:
 * To go here to add bookmarking buttons to your browser - it saves a lot of time when you want to tag something you have read
 * To look regularly at what your network is saving (there's a button to click to do this!)

Welcome 2011 Scholarship candidates! Here's something to watch and to think about. We will discuss it! This guy called Kirby Ferguson has a passion project (ie doesn't get paid for it unless people donate) called Everything is a Remix. It's a series of videos which explain how nothing in Hollywood (or in any creative industry is original - and he shows you how he's come to that conclusion. It's interesting to us because of copyright, fair use, intellectual property, genre labelling, industry etc etc etc (we'll talk about it!!!) In the meantime you can watch part one and two (which is more pertinant to us I think) here and go here (scroll down to it) for the transcript of the narration to Part 2. Highly recommended and FASCINATING!!!! Deb

I will e-mail you and invite you to become a member - so you can contribute to the wiki and engage in discussion with each other (see the tab above)

We will add information as we get it (notice this is a collaborative exercise!) I've made some pages to the left, but feel free to make more pages and add stuff (you'll need to ask me to add you as an organiser to do this - go for it!)


 * Read the scholarship specifications for this year
 * You can find other scholarship resources like past exams and assessment resources at the same link. See the essay from the top scholar in 2009 too.
 * Last year's assessment report - telling you how they mark it and what you need to do, will be out in a wee while.
 * Understand that you have to answer **TWO** of the following questionTs

Question One will focus on the relationship between media and wider society.

Question Two will focus on the development of a medium and/or the factors that shape a media industry.

Question Three will focus on the close reading of media texts.

here's something to get you thinking in the meantime

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