xixTopic guideConglomerates; Core nations, peripheral nations; Deregulation; Deregulation: fi ve myths of; Diver-
sifi cation; Europe: cross-border TV channels; Facebook; Globalization (and the media); Google;
Guard dog metaphor; Independent producers; Independent Television (UK); Institution; Media
Imperialism; Microsoft Windows; Network; Network neutrality; News agencies; News Corp; News:
globalization of; News management in times of war; Newspapers, origins; Normative theories of
mass media; Ofcom: Offi ce of Communications (UK); Organization cultures; Power; Press; Press
barons; Press Complaints Commission; Public service broadcasting (PSB); Radio Broadcasting;
Regulatory favours; Underground press; World Trade Organization (WTO) Telecommunications
Agreement, 1997; Yahoo!.
MEDIA ISSUES & DEBATES
Audience: active audience; Censorship; Churnalism; Consumerization; Core nations, peripheral
nations; Culture: globalization of; Data protection; Dependency theory; Deregulation; Deregula-
tion: fi ve myths of; Disempowerment; Eff ects of the mass media; Empowerment; Ethnocentrism;
Feminism; Freedom of Information Act (UK), 2005; Gatekeeping; Globalization (and the media);
Hegemony; Hyperreality; Ideological state apparatuses; Ideology; Impartiality; Information gaps;
Information surplus; Journalism; Journalism: citizen journalism; Journalism: phone-hacking; ‘Libel
tourism’; Liberal Press theory; McDonaldization; McQuail’s accountability of media model, 1997;
McWorld Vs Jihad; Media activism; Mediapolis; Media Studies: the internationalization of Media
Studies; Media theory: purpose and uses; Mobilization; Murdoch eff ect; Network neutrality; News
management in times of war; News: the ‘maleness’ of news; Objectivity; Open source; Other;
Polysemy; Pornography; Power; Predatory pricing; Privacy; Privatization; Professionalization (of
political communication); Public opinion; Public service broadcasting (PSB); Public sphere; Queer
theory; Racism; Right of Reply; Showbusiness, age of; Sponsorship; Surveillance society; Tabloid,
tabloidese, tabloidization; Text, integrity of the text; Virtual reality; Wedom, Th eydom.
MEDIA: POWER, EFFECTS, INFLUENCE
Accessed voices; Agenda-setting; Attribution theory; Ball-Rokeach and Defl eur’s dependency
model of communication eff ects, 1976; Bigotry; Catalyst eff ect; Colonization; Compassion fatigue;
Consensus; Consent, manufacture of; Conspiracy theory; Consumerization; Contagion eff ect;
‘Coups and earthquakes’ syndrome; Crisis (definition); Cultivation; Demotic turn; Deviance
amplifi cation; Digital optimism; Disempowerment; Displacement eff ect; Eff ects of the mass media;
Frankfurt school of theorists; Hypodermic needle model of communication; Ideological state appa-
ratuses; Ideology; Information blizzards; Inheritance factor; Intervening variables (IVs); Journalism;
Kuleshov eff ect; Kuuki; Labelling process (and the media); Legitimation/delegitimation; Main-
streaming; McCombs and Shaw’s agenda-setting model of media eff ects, 1976; Media imperialism;
Media moguls: four sources of concern; Mobilization; Moral panics and the media; Narcotizing
dysfunction; Network neutrality; News management in times of war; Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of
silence model of public opinion, 1974; Pornography; Power; Power law phenomenon; Primacy, law
of; Public opinion; Self-fulfi lling prophecy; Showbusiness, age of; Signifi cant spiral; Sleeper eff ect;
Slow-drip; Smart mobs; Stigma; Survivors and the media; Twitter; VALS typology; Virtuous circle;
Visions of order.
MEDIA: OWNERSHIP & CONTROL
Berlusconi phenomenon; British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB); Casualization; Churnalism; Citizen
Kane of the Global Village; Class; Commercial confi dentiality; Communications Act (UK), 2003;
Cross-media ownership; Conglomerates; Consumerization; Convergence; Cultural apparatus;
Culture: copyrighting of culture; Culture: globalization of; Deregulation; Diversifi cation; Elite;
Europe: cross-border TV channels; Frankfurt school of theorists; Functionalist (mode of media
analysis); Globalization (and the media); Globalization: the engines of; Hegemony; Ideological
state apparatuses; Ideology; Leadership; Marxist (mode of media analysis); Mass communication/