Where are the assessment details?
You can find the assessment details on the ELE page, under the Assessment Information tab. This is the only place that assessment information is published.
This page focuses on the essay. There is a dedicated ‘Video Support‘ page.
Essay support
There is extensive guidance in the essay brief, which I encourage you to look at on ELE.
The most important things are:
If you use the same case study in both assessments then you need to ensure that you do so in a way that does not involve you submitting substantially the same material twice. You must offer two different and separate arguments – one distinct argument/focus per assessment. It is perhaps safer and simpler to select two separate case studies.
Essay FAQs
N.B. If you have more questions, please post them in the comments section of this page and I will add them to the FAQs.
What does the essay question mean?
The essay question is asking you to discuss how ‘the digital’ has changed understandings of space and place in relation to a particular case study example.
Can you use the same case study for the video and the essay?
Yes – BUT: you must ensure that you are not submitting the same argument, or the same form of discussion, twice. You must offer two different and separate arguments – one distinct argument/focus per assessment. It is perhaps safer and simpler to select two separate case studies.
How specific does a case study need to be?
You may select more complex case studies but they still need to be fairly easy to articulate and discuss within the context of a 2000-word essay. Again, specificity may help you for this assessment. Having said that, for the essay it may be more fruitful to think in terms of particular phenomena (places, practices things) than in terms of particular apps or services. Therefore you might think in terms of, for example: ‘surveillance’ (and/or ‘surveillance capitalism’); rather than specifically CCTV, or specific forms of tracking.
your argument/narrative, it does not include credits/references.