• BOOK – fake news vs media studies – J.McDougall
• “I’ve always said you can’t understand the world without the media nor the media without the world”  professor Natalie Fenton
• “I do spend long periods of time with my gaze turned away from the media, because I’m seeking to understand what’s going on out there, and then the role of the media in that context. I’m always putting the social, the political and the economic contexts first.” 

WAR OF THE WORLDS

• HISTORICAL – power and influence of radio in its early days
• SOCIAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL – broadcast on the eve of WW2 to reflect fears of US invasion

LETTER OT THE FREE

• soundtrack 13th amendment documentary

HIDDEN FIGURES

• potentially controversial themes of race in the US
• particular groups being ‘hidden from history’
• SOCIAL, CULTURAL – targets an audience often ignored by Hollywood (age, gender and race)

MAYBELLINE

• contemporary debates around identity and the self
• reflexive, fluid identity (many MUA)

TEEN VOGUE

• combines politics and fashion
• feminsit stance
• radical voice in US mainstream media due to reports or Trump’s presidency
• social + economic – succeeded whilst other online magazines have struggled to maintain audiences