| Key Question | Focus | Specifics |
| Why Regulate? | – Truth – Child protection – Political bias – To abide by law – Criminal activity – Health and safety – Ownership – Privacy – Slander – Reputation – Morals/Ethics | – War in Ukraine – COVID – Johnny Depp VS Amber Heard Court trial – Elon Musk buying out twitter – Power of status |
| Who regulates what? | – Government – Individuals – Specialist bodies (eg. Ofcom) – Internal regulation within companies (Code of Conduct, HR) – Self regulation – Key individuals (eg. celebrities, influencers, opinion leaders) | – IPSO (Newspaper and Magazine ) – ITU (Radio) – Ofcom (Complaints for broadcasting) – BBDC (Cinema) – PEGI (Video games/ Games in general) – PRS (Music) |
| How will regulation be put in place? | – Privacy – Data protection – Copyright | |
| What gets regulated? | – Radio – Newspaper – TV/Film – Games – Magazine – Social Media – The News – The internet – Books |
Libertarianism = The idea of being free from control and regulation. The freedom of expression without being told what to do by authority.
Authoritarianism = Society in which people are oppressed by the state and are told what to do/ regulated.
Epicurus
- 3 ways of finding happiness: Friends, Family and an analysed life.
- He studied happiness and revealed that money isn’t a way to finding happiness
- Hedonism = The word is derived from the Greek ‘hedone’ (“pleasure”). The idea that human behaviour seeks increase of pleasure and a decrease of pain, pleasure should be the ultimate goal.
The Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School was a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929.
Key Ideas, they theorized that …
- Pleasure was commodified in the media and in popular culture. The idea that the media sells a perfect idea that money can buy happiness.
Mary Whitehouse and Media Watch UK
- Mary Whitehouse (1910-2001) was a British school teacher who left her job to become a conservative activist
- She campaigned for less social liberalism and against the British media which she thought promoted a ‘permissive society’ in the 1960’s. She was against the society of the time which saw the rise in the civil rights and gay rights movements, 2nd wave feminism and the right to contraception and abortion.
- She based her ideas of off traditional Christian teachings
- Founded the ‘National Viewer’s And Listener’s Association’ (now known as Media Watch UK).
- As the president of the group, she used the organization as a way to criticize the BBC for their portrayals of sex, violence and use of bad language.