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AS/Y1 Media C1SB Industry Curran & Seaton
1. AS Media: Key Theory
Power and media Industries: Curran & Seaton
2. Media Industries: Key Theory
Power and media industries: James Curran and Jean Seaton
• The media is controlled by a small number of companies
primarily driven by the logic of profit and power.
• Media concentration generally limits or inhibits variety,
creativity and quality
• More socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create
the conditions for more varied and adventurous media
productions
3. Media Industries: Key Theory
The media is controlled by a small number of companies
primarily driven by the logic of profit and power.
1) What do you understand by this statement – rewrite it in your own words
2) What other motives, besides profit and power, could there be for producing media?
3) You will be given the name of a media conglomerate. You have 10 mins to research the
names of the other media companies they own, from a range of media industries and some
of the most well known media prodcust they make.
4. Media Industries: Key Theory
Media concentration generally limits or inhibits variety, creativity and quality
1) What do you understand by this statement – rewrite it in your own words
2) Why do you think this statement might be true? Can you think of any evidence to support it?
5. Media Industries: Key Theory
More socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create the conditions for more varied and
adventurous media productions
1) What do you understand by this statement – rewrite it in your own words
2) What examples of “more socially diverse patterns of ownership” can you think of? In other
words, what alternatives are there to private ownership of media companies? Is there
evidence to suggest their productions are more “adventurous”?
