We will equip you with the skills to deconstruct media texts (music videos, TV programmes, adverts, posters, magazines and newspapers) and identify what these tell us about the world. This matters because we live in a ‘media age’, spending a significant proportion of our lives online, watching films and TV, reading, listening to music and playing video games. We depend on media to entertain, connect, and inform us. Media producers hold a significant amount of power, however, is this power used responsibly? You will explore important issues – such as stereotyping, patriarchy, colonialism and political bias. You will also develop your creative skills by producing your own media texts. Over the course, you will analyse a range of media texts – including adverts, television programmes, newspapers/magazines, computer games, music videos and websites, considering issues such as representation, ideological bias, and social/historical context.