Media Studies A-Level
Transnational culture
What Transnational culture means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Transnational culture
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Reference: AQA
Media content, ownership and audiences that cross national borders, while rule-making and enforcement remain largely national.
Topics that use Transnational culture
- Regulation as summarised by Livingstone and Lunt (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Citizen versus consumer framing
- Citizen versus consumer interest
- Contested purposes of media regulation
- Contested regulation
- Globalisation
- Independence from state and commercial pressure
- Inequality in audience competence
- Jurisdiction
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