Previous Questions - Component Two
- Mastering Media
- May 14
- 3 min read
Updated: May 15
2024 Questions
Section A (Television):
Explore how the set episode of Peaky Blinders reinforces or challenges genre conventions.
Explain how social and cultural contexts influence audience interpretations of television products. Refer to the set episode of The Bridge in your response.
Section B (Magazines): How useful are feminist theories for analysing the representations in the set editions of Vogue and The Big Issue? Refer to at least one of the following theories in your response: van Zoonen's feminist theory or bell hooks' feminist theory.
Section C (Online): To what extent has the internet challenged the power and dominance of large media organisations? Refer to Zoe Sugg and the Attitude website in your response.
2023 Questions
Section A (Television): How useful are structuralist theories for exploring television products? Refer to Lévi-Strauss’s structuralist theory of binary oppositions and the set episodes of Peaky Blinders and The Bridge in your response.
Section B (Magazines): To what extent can audiences interpret the same magazine in different ways? Explore the set editions of Vogue and The Big Issue in your response.
Section C (Online):
Explain how media production and distribution have changed in the age of YouTube and the Internet. Refer to Zoe Sugg in your response.
Discuss the influence of social and cultural contexts on the representations on the Attitude website.
2022 Questions
Section A (Television):
Explain Henry Jenkins’ theory of fandom. Refer to Peaky Blinders to support your response.
Explore how representations in the set episode of The Bridge may position audiences.
Section B (Magazines): Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of semiotic approaches to magazine analysis. Refer to Roland Barthes’ theory of semiotics and the set editions of Vogue and The Big Issue in your response.
Section C (Online): How much influence do economic factors have on online media products? Refer to Zoella/Zoe Sugg and the Attitude website in your response.
2021 Questions
Section A (Television): Steve Neale argues that genres may be dominated by repetition, but they are also marked by difference, variation and change. Evaluate this theory of genre. Use the set episodes of Peaky Blinders and The Bridge to support your answer.
Section B (Magazines): To what extent do social and cultural contexts influence audience interpretations of magazines? Refer to the set editions of Vogue and The Big Issue to support your answer.
Section C (Online):
Explain the impact of the internet and online platforms such as YouTube on media regulation. Refer to Zoe Sugg/Zoella in your response.
Explore how the Attitude website challenges the misrepresentation of minority groups.
2020 Questions
Section A (Television): ‘Television products are significantly influenced by the contexts in which they are produced.’ How evident is this in Peaky Blinders and The Bridge?.
Section B (Magazines): Curran and Seaton argue that media industries are generally controlled by a small number of powerful companies whose main purpose is to create a profit. Evaluate this theory of power and media industries. Refer to Vogue and The Big Issue in your response.
Section C (Online):
Explain Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Use Zoe Sugg/Zoella to support your response.
Explore how the Attitude website targets and attracts a specialised audience.
2019 Questions
Section A (Television): ‘Television is a global industry.’ To what extent do Peaky Blinders and The Bridge support this claim?.
Section B (Magazines):
Discuss the influence of historical context on representations in the set edition of Vogue magazine.
Explore how the set edition of The Big Issue conveys viewpoints and ideologies.
Section C (Online): Clay Shirky argues that audiences in today’s online age are no longer passive consumers of media content. Evaluate this ‘end of audience’ theory. Refer to Zoe Sugg and the Attitude website to support your answe
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