Media and Collective Identity Prompt Questions

1. How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic/social/collective groups of people in different ways?

2. How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?

3. What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?

4. To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated?

Media in the Online Age Prompt Questions

1. How have online media developed?

2. What has been the impact of the internet on media production?

3. How is consumer behaviour and audience response transformed by online media, in relation to the past?

4. To what extent has convergence transformed the media?

Contemporary Media Regulation Prompt Questions

1. What is the nature of contemporary media regulation compared with previous practices?

2. What are the arguments for and against specific forms of contemporary media regulation?

3. How effective are regulatory practices?

4. What are the wider social issues relating to media regulation?

'We Media' and Democracy Prompt Questions

1. What are 'We media'?

2. Where/how has 'We Media' emerged?

3. In what way are the contemporary media more democratic than before?

4. In what ways are the contemporary media less democratic than before?