- The theories I am interested in are language and power, analysing the lexical choices, discourse structure etc. to distinguish whether they aim for different social class audiences.
- HYPOTHESIS: Broadsheet newspapers aim their newspapers at a different audience to tabloids.
- To achieve evidence whether my hypothesis is true, I have collected 12 newspapers (3 tabloid and 3 broadsheet over 2 days) with the same dates and key story.
- METHDOLOGY: Due to the data being published nationally, no ethical issues can be raised, needing no consent to use the data.
- I have made the data comparable by collecting the papers over 2 days with the same data, using the same newspapers over the 2 days, and the newspapers all covering the main story of the birth of royal baby.
- The datas reliable as I collected it over 2 days, with 6 of the papers being broadsheet and 6 of them being tabloid.
- One problem I faced was not making the data comparable. However as the newspapers are covering the same story, the data can be made comparable.
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
A2 Coursework investigation
Comparison of Broadsheet to Tabloid newspaper
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Good start. Evaluate how reliable the data is given that it is only a two-day period. How is the data not comparable? How limited is the comparison - give as much detail about your thinking as possible.
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