The Media Student's Book 5th Edition

This chapter in the Media Student’s Book explains why ‘regulation’ is a key issue in media studies and explores the different models that have developed in different contexts. The chapter is organised under the following headings:

Politics and media economics
Regulation and ‘freedom’
Historical background
Changes in the ‘orthodoxy’ of economic policy and new models
Deregulation, liberalisation and media institutions
The contemporary regulatory environment
A ‘free market’ for classification, censorship and sex and violence?
The public gets the media it deserves?
‘Free choices’ and ‘free speech’?

Explore: Football and celebrity Football Regulation

Chapter Links

http://www.arpp-pub.org/1-ARPP.html

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7320/

http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/gynewsjs.htm

http://www.dnotice.org.uk/

http://www.epra.org/content/english/index2.html

http://www.nbc.gov.ng/

http://www.broadcastingcommission.org/

http://www.fcc.gov/

http://blog.cdt.org/2008/07/25/another-free-speech-victory-against-the-fcc/

http://www.aipce.net/

http://www.techcentralstation.com/

http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/index_en.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/09/question_time_and_the_bnp.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/16/does-question-time-accept-racists

http://www.jmionline.org/jmi4.htm

Links which extend the book, or which became available after it was published

http://gaildines.com/
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY REGULATION