Industry

Curran and Seaton	Livingstone and Lunt	David Hesmondhalgh
Power and Media	Regulation	Cultural Industries
qthe idea that the media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic of profit and power qthe idea that media concentration generally limits or inhibits variety, creativity and quality qthe idea that more socially diverse patterns of ownership help to create the conditions for more varied and adventurous media productions.	qthe idea that there is an underlying struggle in recent UK regulation policy between the need to further the interests of citizens (by offering protection from harmful or offensive material), and the need to further the interests of consumers (by ensuring choice, value for money, and market competition) qthe idea that the increasing power of global media corporations, together with the rise of convergent media technologies and transformations in the production, distribution and marketing of digital media, have placed traditional approaches to media regulation at risk	qthe idea that cultural industry companies try to minimise risk and maximise audiences through vertical and horizontal integration, and by formatting their cultural products (e.g. through the use of stars, genres, and serials) qthe idea that the largest companies or conglomerates now operate across a number of different cultural industries qthe idea that the radical potential of the internet has been contained to some extent by its partial incorporation into a large, profit-orientated set of cultural industries