OSP: The Voice CSP
The Voice Language and contexts Homepage Go to the Voice homepage and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? 2) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values and ideologies of the Voice? 3) Look at the news stories on the Voice homepage. Pick two stories and explain why they might appeal to the Voice's target audience. 4) How is narrative used to encourage audience engagement with the Voice? Apply narrative theories (e.g. Todorov equilibrium or Barthes’ enigma codes) and make specific reference to stories on the homepage and how they encourage audiences to click through to them. Lifestyle section Now analyse the Lifestyle section of the Voice and answer the following: 1) What are the items in the sub-menu bar for the Lifestyle section and what does this suggest about the Voice audience? 2) What are the main stories in the Lifestyl...