Contexts:

Historical:

  • How do media products reflect and influence historical issues/events
    • For example, a specific era where a certain type of media product would be displayed due to the influence of history at that time

Economic:

  • How media producers operate through the business and financial system
  • How these products differ based on their economic context through production, financial and technological opportunities/contraints
  • For example, the impact this has on production budgets and their sources of funding

Cultural:

  • The beliefs, meaning and practices that guide the shared behaviour of individuals of a certain group
  • For example, the cultural products created by a society will reflect the time in which they are produced and enable an understanding of the ways they were made and the values and beliefs of that time

Social:

  • Relationship between media producers and the society within which they operate
  • For example the way in which the products reflect and construct social attitudes and portray these changes in society

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