databases and libraries

·       Audience analysis organisations – These look in to the amount of people and what type of people watch what programs based on their demographic, age, gender and socioeconomic status, for example Barb research into the amount of people who watch certain programs on TV and VOD this shows what programmes are most popular, this can help us when making ‘Life in-between’ as we can find what programs are similar to ours so we can research into why it is successful and how we can use intertextuality to compete with the most popular programs that already exist in our genre. 

·       Public archives – A collation of information that Is open to the public and maintained by the local counsel, these public archives are for the research. An example of a public archive would be The National Archive and this service would help us when making ‘Life in-between’ as it holds factually accurate information that we can reference in our content.

·       Media databases – A list of contacts that is useful to someone working in the media industry most commonly journalists. The BFI (British film institute), IMBD, channel 4 archive and the BBC archive are examples of media databases as they store all sorts of media from the past.

·       Content libraries – Content is uploaded to a central location so a company can access it as a resource many content libraries are not digitalised and is an example of technological convergence. An example of this would be Youtube or any creative commons website i.e. Getty images.

·       Press archives – Where all the major news articles and newspapers are kept for historical reference. An example of this is Press association. A lot of this is stored on blogs and can use citizen journalism.

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