Media Magazine - links and quotes

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/mm22_DVD_extra.html

"These audiences now enjoy the similar access provided by television extras, which can also be seen to provide access to wider on-screen audiences, whether they be in the studio or communicating with the programme via phone or computer"

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/mm27_global_marxism.html

" Marxism can inform our understanding of the political and economic relationships underpinning global media."

"Marxism can inform our understanding of the political and economic relationships underpinning global media."


http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/mm22_what_is_news.html

"Elite nations are often focused upon, reinforcing their perceived importance, whilst many smaller and poorer countries and communities are ignored altogether. News is inherently ideological."

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/reading%20charity.pdf


http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/Buffalo_Sold.html

An ideology is a collection of ideas that form a larger system of beliefs. Typically these are the ‘isms’ that you will have heard of, many associated with political beliefs – communism, Marxism, capitalism – together with other ideologies like feminism, Christianity and environmentalism

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/4sets.html

The technological forces are then harnessed, or exploited, by economic forces, the companies in the business of making profits

technologies that make it possible to manufacture a certain media product at a certain time. For example, highly miniaturised digital circuitry and broadband telecommunications for the so-called 3G (third generation) mobile phones, which are starting to hit markets this year.

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/Ofcom.html


Since its launch at the end of 2003, the ‘unified regulator’ the Office of Communications (Ofcom) has been happily banning advertisements.

It takes only a single member of the public to complain about an ad, for a ban to be considered. The largest number of complaints that has prompted a response from Ofcom to date is 797 – very high only in comparison with the others