industry

Question 1

Power and media industries - Curran and Seaton (1)

Answer 1

the media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic of profit and power

Question 2

Power and media industries - Curran and Seaton (2)

Answer 2

media concentration generally limits or inhibits variety, creativity and quality

Question 3

Power and media industries - Curran and Seaton (3)

Answer 3

more socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create the conditions for more varied and adventurous media productions.

Question 4

Regulation -Livingstone and Lunt (1)

Answer 4

there is an underlying struggle in recent UK regulation policy between the need to further the interests of citizens (by offering protection from harmful or offensive material), and the need to further the interests of consumers (by ensuring choice, value for money, and market competition)

Question 5

Regulation -Livingstone and Lunt (2)

Answer 5

the increasing power of global media corporations, together with the rise of convergent media technologies and transformations in the production, distribution and marketing of digital media, have placed traditional approaches to media regulation at risk

Question 6

Cultural industries - Hesmondhalgh (1)

Answer 6

cultural industry companies try to minimise risk and maximise audiences through vertical and horizontal integration, and by formatting their cultural products (e.g. through the use of stars, genres, and serials)

Question 7

Cultural industries - Hesmondhalgh (2)

Answer 7

the largest companies or conglomerates now operate across a number of different cultural industries

Question 8

Cultural industries - Hesmondhalgh (3)

Answer 8

the radical potential of the internet has been contained to some extent by its partial incorporation into a large, profit-orientated set of cultural industries