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Ownership and Control: → Type up your  research notes  from the lesson - what did you find out about your allocated media conglomerate? Selection of companies: Alphabet,  The Walt Disney Company,  National Amusements,  Meta,  News Corp,  Time Warner, Comcast. If you were absent or didn't have time in the lesson to make these notes, research  any one  of the companies above and find examples of all the terminology outlined in the notes at the start of this blog post. NEWS CORP: conglomerate → Digital real estate information, news media, book publishing Vertical and Horizontal  integration → Television, radio digital industries  Convergence and Synergy → Dow Jones and company published the street wall journal. Diversification → Tribune company  → it also diversified into radio and television broadcasting ( had businesses in educational publishing ). → Do you agree that governments should prevent media conglomerates from becoming too dominant? Write an argument that looks at both side

  CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: → What does the term 'Cultural Industries' actually refer to? those activities which deal primarily in symbolic goods – goods whose primary economic value is derived from their cultural value . → What does Hesmondhalgh identify regarding the societies in which the cultural industries are highly profitable? dominated by large companies, have minimal government regulation and significant inequality between rich and poor . → Why do some media products offer ideologies that challenge capitalism or inequalities in society? they provide explanations for the facts and problems of the social life, so enabling individuals and groups to orientate themselves in society . → Look at page 2 of the factsheet. What are the problems that Hesmondhalgh identifies with regards to the cultural industries? difficulty in predicting success, high production costs, low reproduction costs and the fact that media products are 'public goods. → Why are so many cultural industries

  MEDIA REGULATION: → What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated?  It protects citizens from unsafe food and products, from public and occupational health risks, and from fraud and financial detriment. → What is OF-COM responsible for? The regulator for the communications services that we use and rely on each day. → Look at the section on the OF-COM broadcasting code. Which do you think are the three most important sections of the broadcasting code and why? → Do you agree with OF-COM that Channel 4 was wrong to broadcast 'Wolverine' at 6.55pm on a Sunday evening? Why? I don't think they were wrong to broadcast wolverine as it is just part of their business and makes them money. → List five of the sections in the old Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice.  Accuracy Privacy Harassment  Hospitals  Children → Why was the Press Complaints Commission criticised? The PCC received extensive criticism for its lack of action in the  News of the W