Industry

• Profit and power

  Who:Curran and Seaton

  Media industry is dominated by an oligopoly of conglomerates

  This limits creativity and quality

  More variety would be better
• Tried and tested

  Who:Hesmondhalgh

  Cultural formatting using genre, franchise, stars

  Minimise risk and maximise audience

  Vertical intergration

  Horizontal intergration
• Regulation

  Who:Livingston and Lunt

  Interest if citizen vs consumer

  Who is regulation for

  Is regulation still viable in the age of global corporations and the Internet