Regulation: Issues and questions

CONTENT GUIDANCE - Contemporary Media Regulation

Questions will cover the following issues

What is the nature of contemporary media regulation compared with previous practices?

What are the arguments for and against specific forms of contemporary media regulation?

How effective are regulatory practices?

What are the wider social issues relating to media regulation?

Candidates might explore combinations of:

Film censorship, the regulation of advertising, the Press and regulation/control, computer/video

game classification, contemporary broadcasting and political control, the effects debate and

alternative theories of audience, children and television, violence and the media or a range of

other

study contexts relating to the regulation of contemporary media.

Sample questions:

1.     Evaluate arguments for and against stronger regulation of the media.

2.     To what extent can the media be regulated in the digital age?

3.     To what extent are contemporary media regulated adequately?

4.     Why is the regulation of media so complex?

5.     How far do changes to the regulation of the media reflect broader social changes?

6.     To what extent is contemporary media regulation more or less effective than in previous times?

7.     Discuss the need for media regulation.