Media Studies A-Level
Regulation
What Regulation means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Rules and bodies that limit ownership concentration or set content standards, acting as a counterweight that can restrain the power of large media organisations.
Imposing rules, the opposite of deregulation, which is removing or relaxing them.
Topics that use Regulation
Related terms
- Concentration of media power
- Cross-border media ownership
- Curran and Seaton's critique of market power
- Deregulation
- Deregulation of media
- Economies of scale and risk spreading
- Effects on audience choice and diversity
- Free market
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