COM3702 Assignment 1 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the COM3702 Assignment 1 (QUALITY ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024. For assistance whats-app us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4... MEDIA POLICY AND REGULATION 2.1 The nature of media and communication policy: [20 marks:500 words] Read the Broadband Policy for South Africa. You are expected to read this policy along with your study materials in to answer the questions that follows. 2.1.1 Provide your own overview of what the Broadband Policy is all about in a paragraph. Cite the policy as a source consulted (4 marks). 2.1.2 Define policy as a process and indicate what problem the Broadband Policy seeks to address. Your answer should be able to demonstrate how the new media or internet is presenting new challenges to the policymakers. (6 marks) 2.1.3 What stage of the policy cycle do you think the Broadband Policy is currently at? You need to conduct your own research in order to determine the stage of the policy. (5 marks) 2.1.4 Identify and discuss the phase of communication policy paradigm that encompasses the Broadband Policy. (5 marks) 3 REPRESENTATION 3.1 News as representation [15 marks:375 words] Write an argumentative essay in which you discuss how news ‘flows’ along certain channels, which contain ‘gates’ where media personnel make decisions on how they perceive and reconstruct news before news appears in the media (Fourie 2008: 237). Give at least two examples of where the media make use of gatekeeping. Examples need to be from 2020 or after. [20] 3.2 Media and terrorism [20 marks: 500 words] You were required to select a newspaper or online article (media report) dealing with terrorist activity in any part of the world. Use this as a practical example. The article must be dated any time from 2017 up to the present. Remember it is compulsory to attach the article with the assignment.