Key words

  1. Cultural industries  
    An industrialised culture concerned with producing, reproducing, storing and distributing good
  2. Production
    The creation of a piece of media
  3. Distribution
    How a piece of media is delivered to masses
  4. Exhibition / Consumption
    How media is presented and consumed by the masses of people
  5. Media concentration
    The ownership of a piece of media by a number of individuals
  6. Conglomerates
    A large company that owns the rights to multiple other company’s that are linked to media
  7. Globalisation (in terms of media ownership)
    The worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.
  8. Cultural imperialism
    A theory that certain nations have a control over media around the world
  9. Vertical Integration
    When media company’s own multiple company’s in the same chain of production
  10. Horizontal Integration
    A media company that owns multiple company’s of the same value
  11. Mergers
    Acquisitions of a media company by another
  12. Monopolies
    When either an individual or a company has complete ownership of a genre or sub-genre of media
  13. Gatekeepers
    When people determine who can look at specific pieces of media
  14. Regulation
    When certain things are blocked from being published by the media
  15. Deregulation
    The idea that there should not be regulations on what media can be posted due to the right of free speech
  16. Free market
    A voluntary exchange and the law of supply and demand that provides for the economy
  17. Commodification  
    The transformation of the relationship, which is trafficked into things that are free of the commercial nature of the relationship.
  18. Convergence  
    The merging of media technologies and platforms through digitalization and computer networking
  19. Diversity   
    A diversity of ideas, viewpoints or content opinions on a certain media subject
  20. Innovation  
    An invention of a new value or idea for journalism

David Hesmondhalgh stats that the media business is a very “Risky Buisiness”. However company’s work towards minimising the risk of the business.

An example of this would be companies acquiring other smaller company’s that are

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