LO6 Regulation Theory

 Livingstone and Lund (2011)

Livingstone and lint think the needs of a citizen (moral and ethical) are in the conflict with the needs of the consumer, because protection can limit freedom. They noticed that regulating media to protect citizens from harmful content can limit freedom of expression. 

Key terms: 

- Citizen - a subject of a democratic society that has the responsibility to uphold social norms, they also have a right to be protect from harm. 

- Consumer - a person that interacts with media products and buys/purchases media products. 

- Command and Control - the idea that those in power such as the government or the watchdog organisations dictating what the public can access, the government control what happens and when. 

- Globalisation - the way in which industry has expanded on a global scale.

- Public sphere - is where the public can have a place for debate and conversation. 

- Technological convergence - the coming together of media technologies to provide services to the audience.

  We as a public should be able to know what is going on in the government however it is also their privacy and the image may be taken out of context. The public should not know when him and his girlfriend have a domestic violent argument for it is their relationship and it’s private, the public should only know things that concern them or could effect them otherwise it is just classed as ‘gossip’.