Lecturer: Professor David Buckingham:
Articles
Gove's plans send out an anti-education message
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/13/gove-education-plans
Students were studying The Simpsons as basic means of understanding the subject
Tories to tackle Media Studies Menace
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/tories-to-tackle-the-media-studies-menace-1772933.html
The ideas that media studies is a "soft" subject (pratical and vocational subject) were making schools in league tables appear better than they are.
Wothless qualifications give false hope to state students
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/22/deceive-children-worthless-qualifications
The idea that high achieving state school students do "soft" subjects and give them false hope.
Arguments against Media Studies:
"Dons despair as students spurn science inferior of Media Studies"
Argues tha media studies isnt a real subject
"Studens Misled over jobs in the media"
Argues it isn't easy to get jobs
Is it academic? Is it a soft option? Does it provide jobs?
History of Media studies:
Matthew Arnold, Frank and Queenie Leavis used Media studies for new generations to criticise popular culture, to better society- help them get better job, improve civilisation.
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