Theorist-Industry

Question 1

Curran & Seaton

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Media concentration

Answer 2

Limits or inhibits variety, creativity and quality

Question 3

More socially diverse patterns of ownership

Answer 3

Create the condition for more varied and adventurous media productions

Question 4

Livingstone & Lunt-Regulation

Answer 4

An underlying struggle in recent UK regulation policy between the need to further the interests of citizens, and the need to further the interests of consumers

Question 5

Increasing power of global media corporations with the rise of convergent media technologies and transformations

Answer 5

Traditional approaches to media regulation are at risk in the production, distribution and marketing of digital media

Question 6

Hesmondhalgh-Cultural industries

Answer 6

Cultural industry companies try to minimise risks and maximise audience through vertical and horizontal integration, and by formatting their cultural products through the use of stars, genres and serials

Question 7

Largest companies or conglomerates

Answer 7

Operate across a number of different cultural industries

Question 8

Radical potential of the internet

Answer 8

Contained to some extent by its partial incorporation into a large, profit orientated set of cultural industries