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’?

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