1.1 Article: Brooker

Question 1

Big Question?

Answer 1

How does Charlie Brooker produce a satirical voice to condemn social media toxicity?

Question 2

Mode

Answer 2

Article

Online and printed in the Guardian

Inform the reader ab his column

Question 3

Audience

Answer 3

Guardian readers

People interested in world affairs

Political- left wing (labour)

People that enjoy satire & Brooker’s unique style of voice

Question 4

Purpose

Answer 4

Admonish the pointlessness of social media

Criticising futile comments/writing

Encouraging people to consider the revelance of what they are saying

Question 5

Colloquial language

Answer 5

‘jabber’ ‘blah’- by line

-1st person, opinionated and personal

‘sheer amount of jabber’

= 1) helps make it more personal
= 2) helps create a satirist voice

‘arsed’ ‘slagged’- taboo language

Question 6

I started to view myself as yet another factory mindlessly pumping carbon dioxide into a toxic sky

Answer 6

Metaphor

‘I’- personal pronoun
= Brooker views himself as complicit and culpable
‘Myself’- reflexive pronoun
= Accentuated his consciousness ab himself

‘Yet’- adverb
‘Another’- determiner
= creates a sense of tedium
= Brooker creates v little significance on himself as a person
=Mirrors sense of belittlement onto his audience and makes them question their contribution to this triviality

‘Mindlessly’- adverb
= Carefree nature mimics the attitude of society

‘Pumping’- verb
= repetitive nature
=suggests society is adding to the spirality of social media

‘carbon dioxide’- repetition
= creates semantic field of pollution, generates an immediate intensity of Brooker’s view
=virulent, suffocating nature of social media

‘Toxic sky’
‘Toxic’- adjective
‘Sky’- noun
= vast nature of sky being toxic is overwhelming
=global issue

Question 7

Self-depreciating voice

Answer 7

‘Eagle-eyed readers’ ‘Roughly two people’
‘Intense flurry of activity’- hyperbole ‘I mean four people’
- humorous voice
-irony

‘despite not being as funny as I never was in the first place

Question 8

Hyperbolic language

Answer 8

‘Im an elderly man from the age of steam’- hyperbolic metaphor
= makes light of his age
=self-depreciating humour

‘85 outraged columns, 95 despairing blogs, half a million wry tweets’
- hyperbolic analogy
- numbers increasing= mirrors social media spirals

Question 9

Key voices/ methods

Answer 9

Self-depreciating voice
Hyperbolic language
Colloquial language
Metaphor