Demonstrate understanding of a significant development in the media
You need to pick a significant change or innovation that's happened in media (like social media, streaming, digital news, ownership changes, etc.) and explain how and why it happened and what impact it's had. At higher grades, you need to dig deeper into the real effects it's had on society, culture, politics, the economy, technology, or how people think — and judge whether those effects are good, bad, or mixed.
You identify a media development and explain how it happened and what impact it's had in a basic way.
You analyze the development by explaining several different impacts it's had across social, cultural, political, economic, technological or ideological areas.
You evaluate the development's impact by making judgments about its significance and effects on media and society, showing you've weighed up different perspectives.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.