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Media industries Glossary and Theorists Flashcards

power and media industries, regulation, cultural industries

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Power and industries- Curran and Seaton

What is regulation?

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Rules or sets of standards that are expected to be adhered to by media producers

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Power and industry- C+S

What is deregulation?

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The relaxing of controls and limitations imposed upon the media by the state

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Power and industry- C+S

What is free market?

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A capitalist system where the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers and where state/legal regulation is kept to a minimum

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Power and industry- C+S

What is media concentration?

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Process wherein fewer individuals or organizations control shares of the mass media

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Power and industry- C+S

What is Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)?

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Television and radio programmes that are broadcast to inform, entertain or educate the public, without trying to make a profit. They are financed in some way via the state

e.g. the TV licence funds for the BBC

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Power and industry- C+S

What is globalisation?

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  • The global spread of media and communications systems and businesses
  • How local and national industries are linked to a wider world culture
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Power and industry- C+S

What are conglomerates?

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A large corporation that owns a large number of media companies, such as television, radio, internet, publishing
* Gives the conglomerate large amounts of power in their market

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Power and Industry- C+S

What does neo-liberalism mean?

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A political ideology favouring free market capitalism

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Power and industry- C+S

What is surveillance?

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Monitoring of events, stories and issues going on in the world

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Power and industry- C+S

What is meant by privacy?

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Protecting personal info shared across digital platforms

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Power and industry- C+S

What is security?

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Protecting a brand image or reputation from attacks that use cintent and influence through digital/ broadcast media?

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Regulation- Livingstone and Lunt

What is meant by public sphere?

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A place where society discusses the issues that affect everyone

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Regulation- L+L

What is meant by governance?

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System of rules and processes set up by an organisation to ensure compliance with local and international laws, accounting rules, ethical norms etc

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Regulation L+L

What is media literacy?

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  • The ability to access, analyse and understand media
  • Allows a better understanding of the complex messages received via the media
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Regulation- L+L

What is meant by transnational culture?

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An analysis of the cultural, linguistical and political effects of colonisation, migration and globalisation among cultures

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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What are cultural industries?

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Industries that produce and sell popular culture as commodities

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Cultural industries- Hesmonhalgh

What is commodification?

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The process by which something becomes an object that can be marketed and sold

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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What is technological convergence?

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The coming together of technologies and institutions to create a new product or media experience

Voice, data, audio, video

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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What is media convergence?

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Merging of traditional media with digital communication technologies (telecommunications, internet)

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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What is diversification?

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Large corporations spreading their interest and shares in a wide variety of mass media forms

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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What is meant by innovation?

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  • Something new/ a change
  • Introducing a new idea/ method/ device etc
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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What is vertical integration?

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When one company acquires another so that it has ownership of different paths of the production process

Usually operatewd by separate companies

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Cultural industries- Hesmondhalgh

What is meant by horizontal integration?

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Companies who acquire other companies operating in the same sector

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