COMM 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paladin Press, Commercial Speech, Prior Restraint

• School: U of M
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 101
• Professor: Shazia Iftkhar

Document Summary

Reality constructed to define power roles through circulation and influenced by capitalism. Henry viii (1500s) - licensing get (royal) permission to be able to release, use, perform, or give permission to do something. Concerns about media violence: natural born killers (1994) Privacy private information challenges of with new technologies. Ownership and market control marketplace of ideas may the best idea win, laws to encourage media competition, discourage monopolies and oligopolies, anti-trust policies. Majority opinion government has no right regulating political speech, corporate/labor speech is treated the same as individual citizen speech: restriction of this money goes against the first amendment. Dissenting opinion people with more money should not dominate/have more influence, unfair, companies are entities not people, erodes wall between business and politics. Government regulation the laws and guidelines that influence the way media companies produce, distribute, or exhibit materials for audiences by federal, state, county, or city government.