Deciding What We Watch: Taste, Decency and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA

ISBN-13: 9780198159360 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 200 str.

Colin Shaw

Opis

This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and the means by which they have responded to them. The book describes, with examples, the operations of compliance regulations and standard controls. It also explores the moral basis and history of such regulation as it has until now been applied to major issues of taste and decency.

Recenzje

Deciding What We Watch makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the regulation of the media industries in the UK and the USA. The book offers an illuminating insider's view on media regulation, a perspective that is often missing from academic accounts. The publication would be of interest to students and academics within cultural studies, people working within the media industries and lawyers working in the field.

O autorze

Colin Don Shaw is a former broadcasting executive with the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority and is a visiting scholar at Duke University, North Carolina