Regulation, Good practice and censorship

Regulation
There is (currently) no standard regulation or regulatory body to monitor social media.
However, private businesses cannot break the Data Protection Act (by, for example, publishing clients’ personal details without permission.

Cambridge analytics were using information from facebook in order to make fake stories on people.
Regulation
Equally, hate speech is covered by law, and this applies to social media.
Hate speech includes:
qRacism
qHomophobia
qSexism
qXenophobia
qIslamophobia

Terrorist Attacks
Increasingly, terrorist cells and individuals are uploading graphic content and sharing it via social
media. This is taken down by the relevant organisation (such as Facebook or Twitter), who respond to
‘reported’ content that may be offensive. 
The issue, though, is the response time. For example, ISIS beheadings, after being uploaded onto
social media sites, were shared amongst users so rapidly that authorities were effectively unable to
remove them. There’s also the issue of the ‘dark web’. 

Self-Regulation
Whether professionally or privately, users
are advised to comply with the law through
self-regulation. 
This means they should have an awareness
of what is, and what is not, illegal, and act
accordingly

Relevant Regulatory Bodies
IPSO – can monitor online copy from news agencies and magazine industry but have no control over
private individuals/businesses
ASA – can advise on online advertisements, as can Ofcom and BBFC
Online streaming and VoD (coupled with increasing piracy), however, make this problematic.






Censorship








China
China has some strict firewalls to prevent potential subversion of its regime. Some internet searches
are banned, and social media currently blocked in the country include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Google+, gmail and YouTube.
China has its own social media platforms – perhaps the most widely-used and well-known is Weibo.

 










Bias and Ideology





In Marxist thought, society is seen to resemble a pyramid. The ruling classes form only a small
percentage of the population, and their position is therefore propped up by the educated workers,
who in turn are propped up the working classes.
Because there are so many people at the bottom of the stack, it’s important to keep them from
revolting. This is really why the media exists, especially in terms of news, television, film, radio,
the internet – it’s a distraction from the realities of existence.

























Comments

  1. JCoSS Media Dept29 November 2019 at 04:01

    Excellent notes - perhaps you expand on the Justine Sacco case study, though. Case studies are important for the exam.
    Mr Boon

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