Media Industries

Question 1

Curran and Seaton - Power and Media Industries

Answer 1

• Patterns of ownership and control are the most significant factors in how media operates.
• (Oligarchy) Media industry follows capitalist pattern of increasing concentration of ownership in fewer and fewer hands - creates narrowing of represented opinions and a sacrifice of quality for profit
• News is still controlled by powerful news organisations who have successfully defended their oligarchy.

Question 2

Livingstone and Lunt - Regulation

Answer 2

• Traditional regulation is being put at risk by increasingly globalised media industries, the rise of the digital
• Conflict between protection and maintenance of freedom.
  Ipso : Newspaper
  PEGI : video games
  Ofcom: Radio and television
  BBFC : Film