Final Index

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  1. Introduction to Media
  2. Media Consumption Audit
  3. Semiotics
  4. Reading an image
  5. Reception Theory
  6. Genre
  7. Narrative 
  8. Psychographics presentation
  9. October assessment LR
  10. Audience Theory 1
  11. Audience theory 2
  12. Industries: Ownership and Control
  13. Cultural industries
  14. Public Service Broadcasting
  15. Regulation
  16. Introduction to representation
  17. Feminism
  18. Feminist Theory
  19. Identity in the online age
  20. Ideology

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