OCR A-Level Media Studies media industries overview quiz quiz

Owning several competing businesses all at the same single level of the chain

Owning several stages of the chain (production, distribution, exhibition)

A type of statutory regulation imposed on media firms by the government

A reception position adopted by an audience when decoding a media text

A camera technique used to create a particular visual effect on screen

A statutory regulator that oversees and licenses media organisations

Promoting and selling the same property across a company's holdings

An audience theory explaining how viewers decode media texts actively

The separation of media into entirely distinct and separate forms

The closure and shutting down of established media companies

A type of stereotype used to represent a social group in the media

The coming together of media forms and technologies

A few profit-driven companies dominate, narrowing variety

Ownership has no effect at all on the content that is produced

All media organisations are publicly owned and funded by the state

The audiences themselves collectively own and run the media outlets

Greater concentration of ownership into just a few very large conglomerates

Greater diversity of ownership, including alternative and public service

Removing all regulation from the media industries entirely

Reducing the total number of media companies in the market

It is low-risk and its outcomes are reliably predictable in advance

It is always publicly funded by the state rather than commercially

It is high-risk, so firms develop strategies to manage risk

It cannot be analysed or theorised in any systematic sociological way

Avoiding all marketing and promotion of the finished product entirely

Refusing to integrate either vertically or horizontally with other firms

Deliberately targeting the smallest possible niche audience every time

Formatting through stars, genres, sequels and franchises

Between protecting citizens and serving consumer choice and freedom

Between the profit a media firm makes and the losses it sustains

Between traditional print media and the newer online media forms

Between the screen actors and the producers who employ and fund them

Ofcom

The ASA

The BBFC

IPSO

Audiences no longer use any media at all in their everyday lives now

There are now far too many separate regulators all competing with one another at once

Globalised, converged and online media cross jurisdictions and are hard to police

Regulating the media has now been made completely illegal under the law