Concept information
Preferred term
media regulation
Definition
- self-regulatory programs and efforts by the television, radio, magazine, newspaper, and other media industries that are aimed at monitoring and regulating advertising by screening ads and accepting only those that are truthful, fair, and in good taste, rejecting all others; criteria and standards are established by individual media vehicles, as well as by media associations for the entire membership. Ultimately, each media vehicle makes the decision to accept or reject an advertising message.. [Source: Dictionary of Marketing Communications; Media Regulation]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Advertising and Federal Communications Commission
- Children's Internet Protection Act
- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
- Children's Television Act
- deregulation of children's programming and the Federal Communications Commission
- industry self-regulation
- internet blocking
- Internet Content Rating Association
- parental advisory labels and rating systems
- radio regulation
- regulation of advertising
- regulation of pornography
- U.S. public policy on pornography
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/media_regulation
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