Media Regulation

 What is media regulation?

Media Regulation is the monitoring and control of the output of the media texts that media institutions produce. 

Why is Media Regulated?

Media is regulated because audience can access media for many reasons, mainly entertainment. Media  texts need to be regulated because people in charge need to make sure that the media piece does not cause harm to anybody in any way, shape or form and some media texts and pieces could be accessed by children and those media pieces could be disturbing for children to view.

What can happen if media is not regulated?

Copycat theory- suppose there is a violent video game that is not regulated for the audience, it is possible for the media consumers to re-enact particular parts of the violent video games, risking violent behavior and it does not allow the the consumer to tell between reality and in game.

Examples of some countries regulating media 

some countries severely restrict viewing media pieces from different countries 

some video games have an 18+ warning on the package of the video game

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