1: Media studies is concerned with the relationship, people, life and society and looks at these relationships in a variety of different ways.
2: Media studies also focuses on the nature of media texts and ways the student can deconstruct the ways meaning is made throughout and between texts.
3: Media Studies became an academic subject with qualifications in the 1960's.
4: Sometimes it's difficult to tell where one media ends and another begins, this state of confusion is down to convergence.
5: Theories of creativity are becoming more important to media students because an increasing amount of people are starting to make their own original media.