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SAGE PUBLISHING Media Regulation 2011 Edition by Lunt
"An exemplary study of how media regulation works (and, by implication, how it could work better) set within a wider discussion of democratic theory and political values. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars but to people around the world grappling with the same problem: the need to regulate markets, and the difficulty of doing this well."- James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London In Media Regulation, two leading scholars of the media examine the challenges of regulation in the global mediated sphere. This book explores the way that regulation affects the relations between government, the media and communications market, civil society, citizens and consumers. Drawing on theories of governance and the public sphere, the book critically analyzes issues at the heart of today's media, from the saturation of advertising to burdens on individuals to control their own media literacy.Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone incisively lay bare shifts in governance and the new role of the public sphere which implicate self-regulation, the public interest, the role of civil society and the changing risks and opportunities for citizens and consumers. It is essential reading to understand the forces that are reshaping the media landscape. Media and Communications Regulation and the Public InterestIntroductionRegulation and the Role of the StateRegulation, Civil Society and the Public SphereMarket Innovation versus Social Democratic ValuesIntroducing the Case StudiesRegulation and the Public InterestFrom Government to GovernanceThe Theory of RegulationStrategies of RegulationNew Labour, Social Democracy and RegulationThe European ContextThe UK ContextRegulation and the Public InterestOfcom's Core Purposes: A Discursive StruggleMedia Regulation and the Implied AudienceThe Communications Act 2003: In Whose Interest?Ofcom's Remit: Interpreting Its Primary DutiesActions to Further Citizens' and Consumers' InterestsCitizen Interests in a Wider PerspectiveOfcom as a Regulatory AgencyOfcom's Remit and RationaleFrom Guiding Principles to Working PracticesCore Business: Telecommunications, Spectrum Management and Media PluralityOfcom as an Institution in the Public SphereThe Content Board and (Communications) Consumer PanelDefining Citizen and Consumer Interests in PracticePublic Views of RegulationConclusionOfcom's Review of Public Service TelevisionIntroductionPublic Service Broadcasting in the 1980s and 1990sOfcom's Remit in Reviewing Public Service TelevisionOfcom's First Review of Public Service TelevisionA Public Service for AllOfcom's Second Public Service Television ReviewOfcom's Consultation on the Second ReviewConclusionMedia LiteracyA New Lease of Life for an Old PolicyA Puzzling Task for the New RegulatorDefinitional Diversity in EuropeMedia Literacy as a Neo-Liberal PolicyThe Politics of Media LiteracyFrom Media Literacy to Digital ParticipationFrom Principles to PracticeFrom Individual Skills to Social CapabilitiesConclusionAdvertising Regulation and Childhood ObesityIntroductionRegulating Advertising to ChildrenThe Challenges of Evidence-Based PolicyRegulatory Action and ReactionRegulatory Effectiveness?Reflections on Evidence-Based PolicyConclusionCommunity RadioIntroductionThe Community Radio Order 2004Regulating Community RadioEvaluating Ofcom's Regulation of Community RadioConclusionConclusionsA Change of DirectionThe Power to Make PolicyOn the Value of an Independent RegulatorConclusionsAfterword