- Cultural industries – Distributing cultural goods and services on industrial and commercial terms.
- Production – The making of a video such as a commercial.
- Distribution – promoting content to online audiences in multiple media formats through various channels.
- Exhibition / Consumption – Retail branch of the film industry.
- Globalisation (in terms of media ownership) – the worldwide integration of media through the cross cultural exchange of ideas.
- Vertical Integration – When a media company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution.
- Regulation – Mass media regulations are rules enforced by the jurisdiction of law
- Free market – The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control.
- Diversity – Diversity in the media is, more than a matter of professional ethics, a matter of questioning that given power.
- Innovation – Media innovation can include change in several aspects of the media landscape – from the development of new media platforms, to new business models, to new ways of producing media texts.
The Nationwide Project was an influential media audience research project conducted by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Charlotte Brunsdon is a professor of film and television studies at the University of Warwick and researcher.
Nationwide is a former BBC current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 until 5 August 1983. It was broadcast on BBC 1 each weekday following the early evening news, and included the regional opt-out news programmes.