Theorist-Industry Flashcards
Curran & Seaton-Power and media industries
Media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic of profit and power
By concentrating media production into the hands of so few companies, there is an increasing lack of variety, creativity and quality
We need more socially diverse and democratic patterns of ownership help to create varied and adventurous media productions
Livingstone & Lunt-Regulation
An underlying struggle in recent UK regulation policy between the need to further the interests of citizens (Protection for harmful material) and consumers (Ensuring choice, value for money, and market competition)
The increasing power of global media corporations, together with the rise of convergent media technologies and developments in the production, distribution and marketing of digital media have placed traditional approaches to media regulation at risk, allows producers to completely ignore media regulations
Hesmondhalgh-Cultural industries
Producers try to minimise risk and maximise audiences through vertical and horizontal integration
They also standardise and format their cultural products (e.g. through the use of stars, genres, and serials)
The largest companies or conglomerates now operate across a number of different cultural industries
