Q: What is the difference between a consumer based media regulation system and a citizen based regulation system?

Consumer – The government gives media companies a wide amount of possibilities and ideas to create media freely

Consumer – government isn’t regulating the media to be educational and factual

Citizen – Government gives pro-social policies for media which also give the society what they want, while maintaining a degree of order

Q. What impact did the 2003 Communications Act have on media regulation?

– The 2003 Communications act allowed other independant TV companies were freed up by being given more freedom in terms of creating media as they no longer had a civic-minded republican ideology in terms of media, slanting towards a consumer regulatory system as the content was now more commercially viable

– Ofcom was created in the UK to regulate media, which is a government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom

Q. What is the drawback of a self-regulated system?

– The drawbacks of self-regulated system are that the system doesn’t always work in favor of the society, but to restrict them.

– self regulated systems have a high chance of corruption as they regulate themselves, which means any mistakes can be swept under a rug and forgotten about

Q. How do you regulate media content and organisations on a global scale?

– Global organisation which regulates the whole of media, with the same punishments and the same rules

– have countries agree on a set of rules to be put in place everywhere