What is the difference between a consumer based media regulation system and a citizen based regulation system?
Consumer based regulation system
- what people want
- consumer chooses what they want to watch by giving producers freedom to create those products.
- media makers are given as much freedom as possible to make the media that audiences want to consume.
Citizen based regulation system
- what government want
- argues that media has a role in shaping society and it’s citizens
- provides rules
What impact did the 2003 Communications Act have on media regulation?
- The act was designed by the labour government in 2003
- The act promoted independent tv production by requiring the BBC and Channel 4 to commission more content from smaller production companies
- Livingstone and Lunt think it’s bad as it is too free regarding citizens interests.
What is the drawback of a self-regulated system?
- Media producers self regulate themselves
- Regulation in place for the media is not rigorous enough.
- Can mess with people’s lifes if consumers want to buy the media products.
- No-consequences for horrible articles
- This led to the leveson inquiry which was a judicial public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal. A series of public hearings were held throughout 2011 and 2012.
How do you regulate media content and organisations on a global scale?
- very hard to regulate but it is needed
- who will regulate who
- not everyone will agree