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Topic guide
MEDIA ETHICS
Advertising: pester power; Alter-EU; Butler Report (UK), 2004; Commercial confidentiality;
Communications Decency Act (US); Data protection; Democracy and the media; Human Rights
Act (UK), 2000; Human Rights Watch; Index; Internet: monitoring of content; Journalism; Journal-
ism: phone-hacking; McQuail’s accountability of media model, 1997; Media activism; Mediapolis;
Media theory: purpose and uses; Normative theories of mass media; People’s Communication
Charter; Privacy; Reithian; Supervening social necessity; Taste; Television: Ten commandments for
media consumers; Universality.
MEDIA: FREEDOM, CENSORSHIP
‘Areopagitica’; Article 19; Butler Report (UK), 2004; Clipper chip; Commercial confi dentiality;
Communications Decency Act (US); Conspiracy of silence; DA (Defence Advisory) Notices; Data
protection; Democracy and the media; Defamation; Digital Economy Act (UK), 2010; Echelon;
First Amendment (US, 1791); Freedom of Information Act (UK), 2005; Gagging order; Hays Offi ce;
H-certifi cate; Historical allusion; HUAC: Hutton Report (UK), 2004; House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee; Human Rights Act (UK), 2000; Human Rights Watch; Icelandic Modern Media
Initiative (IMMI); Internet: monitoring of content; ‘Libel tourism’; Journalism: phone-hacking;
Lord Chamberlain; Milton’s paradox; Network neutrality; News management in times of war;
Offi cial Secrets Act (UK); Open source; Oz Trial; Panopticon gaze; Paperwork Reduction Act (US),
1980; Phillis Review of Government Communications (UK), 2004; Prior restraint; Privacy; Psyops;
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) (UK), 2000; Re-regulation; SLAPPS; Spycatcher
case; Stamp Duty; Street View (Google Maps); Super-injunction; Supervening social necessity;
Surveillance society; Taste; Tactics and strategies; Terrorism: anti-terrorism legislation (UK); USA
- Patriot Act, 2001; Video nasties; WikiLeaks; World Press Freedom Committee; World Trade
Organization (WTO) Telecommunications Agreement, 1997; Zinoviev letter, 1924; Zircon aff air.
MEDIA HISTORY
Agit-prop; Agora; Alexandra Palace; BBC, origins; Beveridge Committee Report on Broadcasting,
1950; British Board of Film Censors; British Film Institute (BFI); Calotype; Camera; Cigarette cards;
Cine-clubs; Cinema legislation; Cinematography, origins; Cinéma Vérité; ‘Clean up TV’ move-
ment; Comics; Commercial radio: origins; Communications Act (UK), 2003; Computer; Cylinder
or rotary press; Daguerreotype; Digitization; Fourteen-Day Rule (UK); Fourth estate; Franchises
for Independent Television; Franchises for 1993; Gramophone; Hays Offi ce; H-certifi cate; HUAC:
House Un-American Activities Committee; Kinetoscope; Linotype printing; Lithography; Lord
Chamberlain; March of Time; Mass Observation; McGregor Commission Report on the Press (UK),
1977; Minority Report of Mr Selwyn Lloyd; Miracle of Fleet Street; Monotype printing; Newspapers,
origins; Newsreel; Nickelodeon; Northcliff e revolution; Persistence of vision; Photography, origins;
Photogravure; Photo-journalism; Picture postcards; Pilkington Committee Report on Broadcasting
(UK), 1962; Pirate radio (UK); Poor Man’s Guardian; Posters; Press barons; Printing; Privacy; Public
service broadcasting (PSB); Radio broadcasting; Radio drama; Reithian; Roll fi lm; Satellite trans-
mission; Selsdon Committee Report on Television (UK), 1935; Shawcross Commission Report on
the Press (UK), 1962; Sound Broadcasting Act (UK), 1972; Stamp Duty; Stereoscopy; Synchronous
sound; Telegraphy; Telephone; Telerecording; Television broadcasting; Th aumatrope; Typewriter;
Ullswater Committee Report on Broadcasting (UK), 1936; V-discs; Victim funds; Video; Vitaphone;
War of the Worlds; Watergate; Wireless telegraphy; Yellow Kid; Zinoviev letter, 1924; Zoopraxog-
raphy.
MEDIA INSTITUTIONS
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA); BBC, origins; Amazon.com; Apple Macintosh; British
Board of Film Censors; British Film Institute (BFI); British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB); Casualiza-
tion; Commanders of the Social Order; Commercial radio; Communications Act (UK), 2003;