Consumer based regulation
- System that prioritizes what people want.
- Individual needs
- More mainstream, less variety.
Citizen based regulation
- Social needs over individual wants
- understanding the wants/needs of individuals but putting the ‘more important’ information first.
2003 Communications act
- Allowed consumer based regulation to dominate the media landscape
- superseded the Telecommunications Act 1984
- Created Ofcom
- independent television companies were freed up to produce content that was more commercially viable.
- lacks the civic minded republicanism that had been fostered within previous regulatory frameworks.
Self Regulation
- Allows for wider variety in the media landscape
- Freedom to say and do whatever you want
- newspapers and advertisers are self regulated
- ‘Get away with anything’
How do you regulate media on a global scale
- Large world wide united nations regulation organisation?
- Loop hole is to create media in an area with loose regulation and broadcast it to the UK, USE, etc.