Historical, social, cultural and political contexts — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Historical, social, cultural and political contexts
Media contexts
What you need to know
The contexts the specification sets out (historical, social and cultural, and political) and what each means for a media product.
How products reflect the time, society and politics in which they were made, through their representations, values and messages and through how they were produced, distributed and regulated.
How cultural influences, such as genres, styles, technologies and other producers' work, shape a product.
Writing about a context as an influence on the product, not the other way round, which is what Component 1 Question 2(a) and Component 2's context questions reward.
The set products for 2027 and 2028 exams are the Vogue and GQ covers; the Man with the Golden Gun and No Time to Die posters; the Guardian of 18 January 2022 and the Sun of 1 January 2021 (2027 exams only), then the Guardian of 6 May 2025 and the Sun of 22 March 2025 (2028 exams); the Quality Street and NHS 111 adverts; the Sun, Desert Island Discs, No Time to Die and Fortnite for industries and audiences; Trigger Point with The Sweeney, or Man Like Mobeen or Modern Family with Friends; and Lizzo or Taylor Swift, Stormzy or Justin Bieber, and Rio or Waterfalls. This Girl Can, The Archers and Luther were last set for 2026 exams, so past questions on them are practice only.
