Creating a Media Platform Portfolio: A Comprehensive Guide

Creating a Media Platform Portfolio: A Comprehensive Guide

Question

Elements Of A Media Portfolio

This assignment task requires you to create a portfolio that must contain the following items:

Design and create media products that can be featured on specific online media platforms. Media products must be one of the following:
podcast

video blog cast

Blog

Media products should communicate about one of the following topics in order to increase awareness of the topic across media platforms: You must specify the media platforms for which your product is suitable (you do not have to publish your product to any media platform). Determine your target audience and consider how you can best convey your ‘message’ to them. Please select one of the following topics:

Depictions of Social Groups in the Media

Media depictions of crime and health

The ambiguity of public and private spheres in new media

digital media, social activism, democracy

All videos or oral media products must be 5 minutes in length

Each media product must be 500 words long

At the end of your portfolio, you should provide a reference list for researching media products. Please provide separate reference lists at the end for Part 1 and Part 2 of your portfolio. 1. In addition to the media product, you must provide written analysis and commentary (1000 words).

2. Write comments discussing the role and influence of media in the 21st century world. Your commentary must include consideration of:

o‘Power’ in and around media

oContemporary social issues with digital and social media

oA reflection on your own media use based on your media diary over the semester in relation to the themes discussed on this course (you may use the first person where appropriate)

oA reference list must be provided

Internal approval:

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO1 Understand and discuss the key debates and theories around the character, content, role and impact of media in contemporary societies

LO2 Debate and discuss the issues of power and inequalities in relation to media

LO3 Apply social science skills of analysis to various mediated areas of social life relevant to student’s degree programme

LO4 Demonstrate knowledge about, and competency in, the use of various media forms to communicate effectively for specified purposes

Task requirements

You will need to upload your portfolio to the LSST Connect submission point by the specified date.
For video or sound products (vlogcast or podcast), you should provide a link to your media product at the beginning of your portfolio
For written products (blog); include this whole in your portfolio
Your portfolio must be presented clearly using sub-sections for each part
You may include images and links to media sources within your portfolio either within the main body of your work or as appendices at the end
How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against these assessment criteria:

Inclusion of all elements of the portfolio & following instructions
Media product
Knowledge, understanding and use of key concepts in the social science of media
Awareness of key issues in relation to 21st Century media
Quality of personal reflection
Presentation of portfolio including media product
Research and use of relevant academic material
Submission details

In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations

Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded, but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard.
Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.

Before you submit

Please use the provided checklist below to make sure you are ‘fit to submit’ your work
We recommend you use this checklist as soon as you get this assignment brief to help you plan your work