Lesson Seven Tasks

Read the article given to you and answer the following questions.

Contemporary Media Regulation

Summarise what is meant by a moral panic (P105).
Name some contemporary moral panics.
What is problematic about a moral panic?
Summarise labelling theory.
What is problematic about the labelling theory?
What relationship does the manufacture of news have to moral panics (P104)?
What is the difference between censorship and regulation (P109)?
What is the IWF and is it still in operation?
How does the example of China demonstrate the effectiveness of regulation?


Media in the Online Age
What is Web 1.0?
What is Web 2.0?
What does Chris Anderson say about Web 2.0?
What is the Long Tail?
What does Andrew Keen think about Web 2.0?
What does Keen say are the problems of anonymity?
How far does Web 2.0 embody Tim Berner's Lee's original intention for the internet?
What is P2P and what impact does it have on the music industry?


Media and Collective Identity
Read page three and then summarise the difficulties of nationalism.
How is nationality constructed?
What is problematic about nationality?
Read the top of page 6 to the bottom of page 7 and then summarise the idea of an imagined community?
How would you describe Britishness as an identity?


WeMedia and Democracy
How does the article define the citizen journalist?
What is problematic about citizen journalism?
What is the poster boy of the citizen journalist and how does it link to democracy?
What does Dan Gillmoor say about news and how does it link to democracy?
What does Saracevic tell you about the differences between citizen and traditional journalism?
What does Dan Gillmoor say that citizen journalism provides that mainstream journalism doesn't?
Do some research into Daily Kos.
What is Web 2.0? (Ask the online age group to help you).
Research Huffington Post, what does the article say is problematic about the Huffington Post?
How does Lemann's point impact on democracy? Do you agree with Lemann?
What does Robert Samuelson say is the downside of all this 'democracy' and do you agree?