Music In the Online Age

• What happened in the 90s?
• What’s happening now and what are the issues?
• What does it mean for independent labels today?
• What is curation?
• How does curation address the issues of today?
• How has music video production changed, and what has led to this change?
• How do new bands get noticed today?
• How has music video production been ‘democratised’?
• How has the internet changed the music industry?
• How has the music industry evolved?

Media in the Online Age

0. What's it all about?
   
   
• How have online media developed?
  
• What has been the impact of the internet on media production?
  
• How is consumer behaviour and audience response transformed by online media.
  
• To what extent has convergence transformed the media?
  
  Candidates might explore combinations of any two media, considering how each (or the two in converged forms) can be analysed from the above prompts. Examples might be music downloading and distribution, the film industry and the internet, online television, online gaming and virtual worlds, online news provision, various forms of online media production by the public or a range of other online / social media forms.