Industry Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
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Power and Media Industries
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- Curran and Seaton
- “the media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic of profit and power.”
- “media concentration generally limits or inhibits variety, creativity and quality”
- “more socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create the conditions for more varied and adventurous media productions”
2
Q
Regulation
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- Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt
- “there is an underlying struggle in recent UK regulation policy between the need to further the interests of citizens (offering protection) and the need to further interests of consumers (ensuring choice, value for money and market competition)”
- “the increasing power of global media corporations, with the rise of convergent media technologies and transformations in the production, distribution and marketing of digital media, have placed traditional approaches to media regukation at risk”
3
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Cultural Industries
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- David Hesmondhalgh
- “the idea that cultural industry companies try to minimise risk and maximise audiences through vertical and horizontal integration”
- “considers the radical potential of the internet has been contained to some extent by its partial incorporation into a large, profit-orientated set of cultural industries”
