Ch. 1 Social impacts of the media -- The age of the tabloid -- Adjust your mind-set -- Turn off that TV, read this page with care... -- Is television bad for children? -- Doctors to query child TV habits -- Violence on television -- Advertising and children -- Using television sensibly -- The screen violence debate -- The naked truth -- The threat on the net -- Dark side of the download -- Media slate youth: Study -- A society for all ages -- Ch. 2 Media ownership -- Media ownership and control rules -- Time to break the media ties -- Media report sets scene with clarity -- Turn up the media debate -- Media diversity less if liberalised -- Changing cross-media rules threatens us all -- Cross-media change ruled out -- Ch. 3 Media regulation and ethics -- Should the media be self-regulating? -- Community views about television content -- Journalists' code of ethics -- Ethics: How to complain -- Content regulation -- Codes of practice for internet service providers and content hosts -- Internet regulation in Australia
Summary
The media in all its forms is an integral part of most Australian's daily lives. This book examines levels of media ownership, power and regulation; sex, violence and censorship in the media; the protrayal of gender stereotypes and minority groups; sports sponsorship, and the impact of television on social development
Analysis
Advertising
Censorship
Children
Codes of conduct
Codes of practice
Federal issue
Internet
Language learning materials
Mass media
Media ownership
Social change
Television programs
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 42) and index
