Ownership + Control

Question 1

Curran

CR

Answer 1

Ownership concentrated
1937= ‘press barons’
2012= media moguls
-Horizontal + Vertical intergration produce global conglomeretes

2003

Question 2

Whale

Answer 2

Pluralist
-Democratic societies require a diverse provision of media products
-Subscribe to a ‘market model’
-Owners Global problems of trade + investment mean content cannot be influenced

1977

Question 3

Miliband

Answer 3

Neo-marxist
-Mass media acts as an ISA
-Transmits conservative ideology, capitalism not criticised

1973

Question 3

Castles + Kosack

SG

Answer 3

Scapegoats
-Media represents BAME poorly to hide true cause of inequality
-Divide and rule WC

1973

Question 3

Tunstall + Palmer

Answer 3

Regulatory favours
-State no longer interested in controlling new media as interests overlap
-Neglect to criticise policy, hide statistics etc.

1991

Question 3

GUMG

Answer 3

Hegemonic Marxist theory
-Economic pressure- lack of criticism motivated by profit rather than ideology
-Agenda setting- media decides issues discussed, not consumer led, resulting in cultural hegemony

Question 3

Jones

Est

Answer 3

Media + Establishment
-Alliance of unaccountable powerful groups, bound together by common interests and shared mentalities
-protect position by by managing democracy
-Scapegoat unemployed, immigrants etc.

2015

Question 3

Strinati

overview

Answer 3

Postmodernist
-Countries transformed from industrial modern (manufacturing) to post industrial service economies
-impact - media saturated, globalisation (no barriers), no absoloute truth

1995

Question 3

Baudrillard

polysemic

Answer 3

Invalid claim of journalists + owners control
-cant disseminate views as there are multiple versions (hyper relity), undermined truth + objectivity
-Polysemic means information interpreted variety of ways so no message more powerful than another

1998

Question 3

Pluralist views

Answer 3

Market model
Democratic mirror
Media professionalism