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About Ofcom

It is useful for media studies students
Ofcom (Office of Communications)  is the organisation which regulates the UK’s broadcasting, telecommunications and wireless communications sectors.  Ofcom also sets and enforces rules on fair competition between companies in these industries.
Ofcom's main legal duties, as set out in the UK Communications Act 2003, are to ensure:
• the UK has a wide range of electronic communications services, including high-speed information services
• a wide range of high-quality television and radio programmes are provided, appealing to a range of tastes and interests;
• television and radio services are provided by a range of different organisations;
• people who watch television and listen to the radio are protected from harmful or offensive material;
• people are protected from being treated unfairly in television and radio programmes, and from having their privacy invaded; and
• the radio spectrum (the airwaves used by everyone from taxi firms and boat owners, to mobile-phone companies and broadcasters) is used in the most effective way.
I suggest one of the students of  uk media course accept this topic as the his or her term project.

 Media Landscape - United Kingdom
For MA students of the Institute for North American & European Studies of the University of Tehran (INAES)(Department of British Studies)
According to the report:Media Landscape - United Kingdom It should be remembered that, while, in many respects, the UK media landscape is a single entity, there are distinctive English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh dimensions, reflecting the composition of the State itself, and heightened by devolution in the late 1990s.

The Political Economy of Media
We have already discussed about the political economy of media in our class,now, Monthly Review Press has just published a new book: The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas.
The book includes Robert W. McChesney's latest thinking on journalism, the Internet, global political economy, and the burgeoning media reform movement. More

 

The Spring 2008 issue of Global Media Journal
The Spring 2008 issue of Global Media Journal-American Edition, contains invited papers and selected papers presented at the Global Fusion Conference, “Contested Intersections: Publics, Movements, Institutions,” Saint Louis, Missouri, September 7-9, 2007, including:
• Women Making News: Gender and Media in South Africa, Margaretha Geertsema, Butler University, USA
• Satellite Television and the Public Sphere in Egypt: Is There a Link? Basyouni Ibrahim Hamada, Cairo University and MSA University, Egypt.
• Communicating the Negative Impact of Pack Journalism to Media Reporters, Gerald-Mark Breen and Jonathon Matusitz, University of Central Florida, USA
• Global or Local Identity?: A Theoretical Analysis of the Role of Viacom on Identity Formation Among Children in an International Context, Kristin C. Moran and Leeva C. Chung, University of San Diego, USA
• And more…

 

Media UK
For MA students of the Institute for North American & European Studies of the University of Tehran (INAES)(Department of British Studies):
A media directory for the UK. Listing websites, addresses, telephone numbers, live links and more for all areas of the online media, it's your one-stop media portal: Media UK

 

THE FALL 2007 ISSUE OF THE Global Media Journal
The Fall 2007 issue of Global Media Journal-American Edition, with focus on Media, Religion, and Politics in the Age of Globalization, contains a selected number of refereed and non-refereed papers, including:
“Saving” Muslim Women and Fighting Muslim Men: Analysis of Representations in the New York Times, Smeeta Mishra, Bowling Green State University, USA
The Complete Story: Religion and Race in Global Non-Fiction Programming Barbara Selznick, University of Arizona, USA
The Abortion Debate in a Mexican Online Forum: Globalization, Religion, and Politics, Eileen A. Yam, Abt Associates Inc., & Emily Vala-Haynes, USA·
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide: Reconsidering the Role of Local and Global Media, Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK·
A historical perspective on fundamentalist media: The case of Al-Manar Television, Assem Nasr, University of Texas at Austin, USA·
And more…Global Media Journal (Indexed in CSA) publishes works that assess existing media structures and practices, such as global media concentration, globalization of media, global consumer culture, the role of media in democratic governance and global justice, propaganda, media reception and representation, commercialization, new media technologies, media regulations, regional media, alternative media, and other timely issues.
Global Media Journal is a rapidly expanding, open-access, and scholarly publication with:
Established and independent African, American, Arabic, Australian, Canadian, Chinese, Indian, Mediterranean, Persian, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish Editions.
Refereed papers, invited papers, book reviews, and contributions by graduate students.
Global Media Journal, an official publication of the Global Communication Association and Global Fusion Consortium, is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, USA, and its editions are sponsored by major universities throughout the world.
Yahya R. Kamalipour is the Founder and Managing Editor
Email: kamaliyr@calumet.purdue.edu

 

The Lasswell Formula
this is for MA students of the Institute for North American & European Studies of the University of Tehran (INAES)(Department of British Studies)
You have here the mainpoints of what disscussed today in class.
Remember that the Lasswell Formula [1948] [ Harold Lasswell] is typical of what communication scholars refer to as a transmission model of communication.
The Formula consists of five major components:

The sociologist, Harold Lasswell, tells us that in studying communication we should consider the elements in the graphic above. It is quite a useful model, whatever category of communication we are studying.
some questions under WHO part of the Formula:
who owns this newspaper?
what are their aims?
what are their political allegiances?
do they attempt to set the editorial policy?
does the fact that they are a republican account for the newspaper's repeated attacks on the Royal Family?
are they subject to any kind of legal constraints?
how does the editor decide what to put in the paper?
What are your questions about four other components, we will continue the debate on class.

 GMJ Book Series: Volume 1
Att: Students of the Institute for North American & European Studies of the University of Tehran (INAES)(Department of British Studies)
Marquette Books LLC is pleased to announce publication of the GMJ Book Series: Volume 1 (Fall 2002-Fall 2006) Global Media Journal, American Edition.
Through more than 12 global editions, GMJ publishes works that assess existing media structures and practices, such as global media concentration, globalization of media, global consumer culture, the role of media in democratic governance and global justice, propaganda, media reception and representation, commercialization, new media technologies, media regulations, regional media, alternative media, and other timely issues.
This volume contains the refereed papers published online from Fall 2002 to Fall 2006. The book is scheduled for publication in Spring 2008. Ask your library to order it (see Web site below for details).
GMJ is the official publication of Global Communication Association, Global Fusion Consortium.
Founder and Managing Editor: Yahya R. Kamalipour
Marquette Books LLC, America’s Fastest Growing Small Press