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A Level Media Studies - Mrs edmunds > Zoella > Flashcards

Zoella Flashcards

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How can Banduras Media Effects theory be linked to Zoella?

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Zoella injects messages into the minds of a passive audience, for example Zoella’s constantly made-up appearance injects the message that females should look a certain way into her viewers passive minds.

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How can Baudrillards theory of Postmodernism be linked to Zoella?

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Zoella promotes consumer culture

Vlogs reinforce hegemony - relationships, conforms to stereotypical femininity

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How can Bell Hooks’ Feminist Theory be linked to Zoella?

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Zoella subverts the conventional woman by having her own successful business - feminism, ending patriarchy
BUT - she contributed to patriarchy by staying at home, being dependent on men etc

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How can Gauntlett’s Identity theory be linked to Zoella?

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The young audience may take aspects of Zoella’s identity and use them to build their own identity
Bc of parasocial interaction - viewers feel they can identify with her

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George Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory and Zoella

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The more her audience see the representations of Zoella’s perfect life and relationship, the more they will believe them to be true.

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Stuart Hall’s Reception Theory and Zoella

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Preferred reading - Zoella cares about her relationship with her fans and takes their comments into consideration
Oppositional - Zoella does not care about her relationship with them and only acts like their friend to maintain viewers and make money

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Livingstone and Lunt and Zoella

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YouTube is Zoellas main platform = struggle of regulation vs giving consumers choice
However, Zoellas videos contain sanitised content

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Shirky ‘End of Audience Theory’ with Zoella

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Zoellas parasocial interaction with her viewers reinforces the ‘end of the audience’ because viewers now have input into what Zoellas vlogs are about - comments, shares, tweets etc

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How can Van Zoonens Feminist Theory be linked to Zoella?

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‘Zoellas appartment’
Zoella conforms to stereotypes with her hair and makeup
Feminine topics - baking, decorating
- Alfie = strong, been to the gym

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What is virtue signalling?

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The act of posting online content which shows a person is good and virtuous ( having high rural standards)

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What is an example of virtue signalling with Zoella?

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‘Anxiety - The Update

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What is the targeted gender of Zoella’s vlogs, blogs etc ?

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Females predominantly
BC videos are about stereotypically interested in makeup, fashion and relationships= all in her videos
Emotive content - ‘Reacting to Zalfie Edits’ video

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What is that age of Zoella’s target audience?

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13-24
13+ because young people are starting to use technology more
Sanitised content

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What socio-economic group is Zoella’s work targeted at?

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B - middle class groups - bc of expensive products that she promotes 
alongside E bc students are her main audience - young girls aspire to be like her
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What are the psychographics of Zoella’s audience in terms of lifestyle?

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Single people, young couples, heterosexual

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Psychographics - activities and interests

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Makeup, fashion, stereotypically feminine

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Psychographics- psychometric grouping

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People who like superficial things such as makeup and fashion and who care about their appearance.
Alongside aspires, politically apathetic and mainstream people

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Psychographics - Youth tribe

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Zoella is concerned with being ‘on-trend’

Zoellas vlogging lifestyle also represents the idea of life choices

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What mise-en-scene is often found in Zoella’s videos, such as the ‘Full Face Of Gloss’ video:

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Fairy lights, plants, pinks, blues on bedding etc

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In what video can Zoella be seen as the homemaker, stereotypical woman, traditional role of a woman?

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‘Getting Organised For Christmas’

21
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How old is Zoella?

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27

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When did Zoella start blogging?

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2009

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When did Zoella start YouTube?

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Later on in 2009

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What was Zoella named as in 2013, and who by?

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‘One of Britain’s most influential tweeters’

The Telegraph

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Who was she an ambassador for from 2013?

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National Citizen Service

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When was her novel ‘Girl Online’ released and how many books does she have in total?

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2014

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What is Sanitised Story Content?

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Content that avoids controversy, bad language or material that may cause offence

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Single Camera Edit

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A production filmed with just one camera, usually very quickly

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Narrative currency

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Stories that are updated and that discuss things that are recent

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Codes of Realism

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Technical, narrative or symbolic devices that are suggestive of the real world

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Aspirational Narratives

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Stories that inspire audiences to want a particular lifestyle or to change their behaviour in some way

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Jump cut

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An editing technique that cuts material from single takes, giving the effect of jumping forward in time

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Breaking the fourth wall

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Where the presenter addresses the audience directly

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Candid imagery

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Photos that aren’t posed

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Unscripted narrative

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Improvised moments in narrator dialogue

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Collaborative content

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Where vloggers make co-productions

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Amateur aesthetic

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A deliberately non- professional filming style

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Everyday miss-en-scene

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Using costume, makeup and sets that appear natural

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Presenter POV (point of view)

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Seeing what the presenter sees

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High-key lighting

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A lighting style that eliminates shadows

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Invitation into private spaces

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Filiming that takes place in areas usually off limits to film crews

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Narrative authenticity

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Story structures that deal with real life

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Best friend characterisation

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A presenting style that gives the audience access to details of the presenters life

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Confessional narrative

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Giving the audience access to inner thoughts

45
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Name 5 of the products Zoella includes in her video ‘What’s In My Travel Bag?’

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Clinique Moisture Surge  
iPad Pro and laptop 
Leaf phone case from urban outfitters
Medium Burberry Rucksack
Zoella Beauty No Filter Needed Zip Purse
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Consumer culture

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Zoella promotes consumer culture by encouraging fans to buy certain products

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Hegemony

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Zoella’s videos reinforce hegemony because she appears as the conventional woman (makeup, stays at home)

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Hyper-reality

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Fans are often unaware of what is real in Zoella’s videos

- how her lied appears perfect but is not

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