michael's yellow book

Edited/ collated by Michael Considine
This a selection of articles, examples, explanations of everything in the current VCE media study guide. Good to keep and add things too. Useful for all sections of the study guide.

Womens' weekly covers

 A great selection of old Women's weekly magazine covers. The covers depict what was going on at the time in history. Easily address Unit 4, Outcome 2 Social Values.

Swinburne On Line Professional Development

This is from the Swinburne On Line Professional Development
Teachers and Students Resource Page for Media
It includes documents and links listed below are intended to help students learn about the relationship between the media and the social values of the culture in which media texts exist. Unit 4 outcome 2, social values.

Rinso Washing Powder: A Bachelor Grey, 1942

This ad would be good to use to illustrate social values in Media text which can address Unit 4, Outcome 2.

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women

With Jean Kilbourne. Presented by The Media Education Foundation
Jean Kilbourne present the issue of gender representation with a focus on women, looking over the past 20 years. She uses advertising examples which are flawless images of women, and how this can contribute to women self esteem, and also how society views women.
Excellent to use in Unit 1 Media representation, outcome 1 and 2. Also, it could be used for Unit 4 outcome 2 social values.

Through the wringer, teaching social values with print media

By Michael Considine, Screen Education, 2007, pp92-97

A an article that could be used to guide lessons around teaching how social values influence media text. It gives examples of how students have responded to the exercise

Good to address Unit 4, Outcome 2, attitudes in the form of social values held in society during the production period of media texts; for example, attitudes about characters/individuals, institutions, behaviour, social issues, objects, social relations.

Women's magazines

A resource of Women's magazines of the 1920's, 1930's, and the 1940's website from Steve Johnson Cyberheritage.

A good resource for Unit 4 Social Values, Outcome 2, ways in which social values of the production period shape the content of media texts;

Nelson media. VCE units 1-4

Jo Flack, 2005 Thomson Learning Australia,

A text designed to cover all areas of the media VCE study guide. Great to use as a starting point and to generate ideas of how to cover the different learning outcomes in the study guide. Particularly good for Unit 4 Outcome 4 social values, outcome 3, as it outlines the different media theories or modals: Bullet or Hyperdermic, Further transmission models (The Laswell model, Shannon weaver model, uses and Gratification approach, catharsis), Reinforcement theory, Dependency theory, Cultivation theory.