Media Policy

ISBN-13: 9780631204343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 260 str.

David Hutchison

Opis

The book discusses the basic issues of principle, the processes of implementation and the actual consequences in practice.

• Provides a cross-media analysis of media policy
• Uses case studies to illustrate policy implementation
• Includes chapter summaries, questions for discussion and a chapter on further reading

Recenzje

"Impressive introduction to media policy debates" Times Higher

"Few (books) pare the subject back to its basics as readably as David Hutchison′s Media Policy" Media,Culture and Society

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction.

Part I: Contexts:.

2. Age of Darkness, Age of Enlightenment? The Intellectual Background.

3. Markets, Media and Moguls.

4. Technology – Chance, Fate and Choice.

Part II: Principles:.

5. Freedom, Democracy and Enlightenment.

6. Protecting the State.

7. Protecting the Citizen, Protecting Society.

Part III: Practice:.

8. Actors in Performance.

9. Privacy, Accuracy and the Press Complaints Commission.

10. Remoulding Public Service Broadcasting: The Challenge to the BBC.

11. Intervention in the Newspaper Market Place.

12. Censorship, Classification and Censure.

13. Coping with Cultural Imperialism.

14. Further Reading.

References and Notes.

Index.

O autorze

David Hutchison is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Glasgow Caledonian University; for a number of years he was a member of the BBC General Advisory Council and of the Scottish Film Council.

Blurb

Media policy is an exciting field of continuing controversy. In this book, David Hutchison explores the link between the general formation and implementation of policy and the specific experience of media policy by the population as a whole. The book discusses the basic issues of principle, the processes of implementation and the actual consequences in practice.

Hutchison adopts a cross–media approach to policy discussion, ranging across the press, cinema and broadcasting and examining the links between policy in the whole of the media. The book is divided into three sections: the first covers the cultural, economic and technological contexts of media policy; the second considers the principles behind the basis of policy as it has developed over time; and the final section uses case studies to explore the implementation and revision of policy, and relates the earlier discussions to contemporary practice.

The emphasis is on UK media policy within the context of European regulation and legislation. The book also takes account of the activities of transnational and global corporations, and makes important comparisons with experience in North America. The volume includes summaries and questions for discussion to aid students and lecturers.