Chapter 10: regulation now?

This chapter in the Media Student’s Book explains why ‘regulation’ is a key issue in media studies and explores the different models that have developed in different contexts. The chapter is organised under the following headings:

• Politics and media economics
• Regulation and ‘freedom’
• Historical background
• Changes in the ‘orthodoxy’ of economic policy and new models
• Deregulation, liberalisation and media institutions
• The contemporary regulatory environment
• A ‘free market’ for classification, censorship and sex and violence?
• The public gets the media it deserves?
•  ‘Free choices’ and ‘free speech’?

As for the other chapters, there is a list of links here as indicated in the book for reference and further study.