The Times

The Times

1. Industry

   • First published in 1785
     • Year on year sale growth
       • 407, 566 daily average
   • Part of Times Newspaper Group
     • Subsidary of News UK
     • Rupert Murdoch
       • Phone hacking scandal 2011
         • 911
         • Murders
   • Company is predominantly right wing
     • The Times remains neutral
   • First to introduce online newspaper
     • Paywalls
   • Independant Press Standards Organisation (IPSO)
     • Not backed by government -fully funded
     • Regulates newspapers
     • Anti-Leveson
   • Curran and Seaton - Media Industries
     • Vertically integrated company
     • Inhibit creativity
     • Diverse pattern of owndership
   • Livington and Lunt - Regulation
     • Adhere to strict rules
     • IPSO

2. Language

   • Colour palette - Red white and blue
     • American iconography
       • Enigma codes - Barthes
       • Code of dress - Red white and blue
   • Medium close up shot
     • Trump in the foreground
   • Semiotics - Barthes
     • American iconography
       • Cultural significance
   • Structuralism - Levi-Strauss
     • "The New World"
       • Invites readers to make their own interpretations

3. Representations

   • Trump and Pence
     • Stereotypical white, middle class male
     • Conservative values
     • Dressed in tailored suits
       • Business like and conservative
     • Wear American flag badges
       • Represents patriotism
   • Body language and facial expressions
     • Connotates determination and a serious approach
   • Representation - Stuart Hall
     • Signs of Trump suggest he belongs to a specific cultural group of white middle class men
       • Inequalities of power in social groups

4. Audience

   • Predominantly ABC1
     • Over 35
     • Right wing stance
   • Fairly neutral approach
     • Auddience can construct their own opinons
   • "A New World" intertextual reference
     • Dystopian
       • End of world
     • tyranny and behavioural conditioning
     • Educated audiences may know the book
   • Cultivation - Gerbner
     • Repeated patterns (Trump and election) can shape audiences views
   • Reception - Stuart Hall
     • Negotiated view
   • End of audience - Clay Shirky
     • Audience is no longer passive
     • Get involved in forumns etc

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