Unit 7: News Apps

1. what are your most used News apps?

     I don't use News apps, I often go online to view my news.

• Mode-of-address: how a media product engages with an audience. formal/informal modes of address. Different modes of address used my News media:

1. Peer to Peer- informal and subjective, used mainly by gossip magazines as they speak as equals and in an informal manner.

This is very informal as they are very chatty tone

This is Peer to Peer mode of address as it is very informal and talking about rumours/gossip

2. Teacher to pupil- this is instructional and content is educating the audience, used for TV and Print news which is used to educate and inform. 

They have statics

3.Parent to child- this is commanding and this mode of address is a device to show the power structure.

• Press agencies- organisation which gathers reports and news stories which they sell to News institutions.
• how does ideology relate to the News? the majority of people have the same beliefs or ideas, this is reinforced by the news media.
• Linguistic conventions: these are words and phrases used as part of a style of journalism. For example magazines are written in colloquial terms
• colloquial terms are used in ordinary or familiar conversations; not formal or literary.

DailyMail:

• headline: Killer 'surrendered because he felt bad' after he and a second gunman shot six people dead during 'terror attack on Muslims' at Quebec City mosque 'while they shouted Allahu Akbar'
• This is presented when you first open the app and takes over the whole page.
• Teacher to pupil mode of address
• Topic of the stories are about death/killings or the government
• various topics covered

The Sun:

• Headline: Lotto ade taken for a ride: Fiancée walks out with 30 prise mags.
• promoted at the top of the page and has a banner saying 'exclusive'
• Peer-Peer mode of address.