Introduction to Media Studies

Media Educators have developed a set of Key Concepts through which new students can be introduced to the subject. These are often remembered through the acronym MIGRAINE:

M \- Media Language
I \- Institutions
G \- Genre
R \- Representation
A \- Audience
I \- Ideologies and Values
N \- Narrative
E \- Economical, political, social, historical!

These should be seen as a starting point for the study of the Media and not an exhaustive model of Media Studies.