Media Regulation Essay Plan

  

Media Regulation 

 

 

Media Regulation considers issues of morality and decency, accuracy of content and media ownership.

 

 

 

Media Regulation essay plan

 

Intro – Living in a ‘post-truth’ era (post-truth meaning an era where facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief)

 

NZ’s regulatory body / chief censor and how our classification system works

 

o   History of NZ’s regulation (big law changes that impacted film/ TV/ media regulation)

 

o   Case studies for film classified in NZ – 13 Reasons Why (personal opinion on it)

 

o   Case study for videogame classified in NZ – Manhunt

 

o   Censorship as part of regulation – Disney & Song of the South / Dumbo 

 

-       Should censorship occur / does it stop conversations about things like racism and the past that we need to teach younger generations / who holds the power to say what we ‘should’ and ‘shouldn’t’ consumer?

 

o   Case study for censorship – Mosque shooting in Chch, footage taken off social media and manifesto banned. Was this a good thing? Would have been harmful to society

 

 

o   Audience consumption – families not knowing what kids are consuming 

(families not watching TV together because they have internet & technology, able to talk through things/ self-regulate or censor inappropriate content, do we now need moral gate-keepers?) 

 

 

-       Problem of consumers now being producers (Shirky – ‘prosumers’) – harder to regulate online content (e.g. platforms needing to become editors of content i.e. Facebook banning Trump or Mosque shooter’s live video being taken down. (Govt. to regulate internet article)