Contemporary Media Regulation

Candidates should look into these 4 points:

• 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
• the regulation of online media
• social networking and virtual worlds
• 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. 
• Regulation might be researched in regard to media content, access, ownership and control and / or in relation to politics, public interest and democracy.