Industry

• Curran and Seaton - Power and Media

  • The media is controlled by a small number of companies
  • Media concentration inhibits variety, creativity and quality
  • Socially diverse patterns of ownership help create conditions for more varied and adventurous media productions
  • Minimising risk, maximising power
• Livingstone and Lunt - Regulation

  • Struggle between furthering the interests of consumers by protecting them from harmful material whilst ensuring choice and market competition
  • Powerful global media corporations regulate content their consumers find to strengthen their own ideologies
  • Minimising risk, maximising profit
• David Hesmondhalgh - Cultural Industries

  • Cultural industry companies minimise risk and maximise audiences through vertical and horizontal integration
  • Media conglomerates operate across multiple cultural industries
  • The internet is partially incorporated into a profit-oriented set of cultural industries