social issues and sensitivities, eg representation of gender, representation of religious beliefs, linguistic usages, accessibility; professional body codes of practice, eg BBC producers’ guidelines, Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility standards
Legal
People who work in the creative and media industries have alot of rules and regulitions that they must abide by. Some of the legal issues are listed below;
Broadcasting Act 1990 (and later amendments) is a british law which replaced the independant television commission and radio authority e.g broadcast that makes smoking good but doesn't list the bad effects is a break of this law
Official Secrets Act 1989 which stopped made film people giving to much information about secrets to the public e.g national secreats broadcast to the public would be a breach of this
Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments) which created a new law for publishing obscene material e.g nude stuff on a childrens show
Films Act 1985 made further provision with financing to films and connected purposes
Video Recordings Act 1984 which made video recordings for sale or hire carry a classification by the home office e.g selling a film without a classification
Race Relations Act 1976 (and later amendments) which stopped dicrimination against different races e.g not giving someone a job because of their colour
Human Rights Act 1998 was made to make sure everyone is treated fairly like every human being has the right to be free e.g being used as a slave and not being free
Licensing Act 2003 (and later amendments) to make sure licenced premises don't show non licenced stuff and breach the copyright rules like pubs showing sport from sky sports but with a foreign satelitte reciever, this breaches the british privacy law but not the european ;
privacy law so personal information is dealt with sensitivly and protect peoples privacy e.g peoples personal life being put in the paper
copyright and intellectual property law gives people the right to which their products is sold e.g someone using a song for their own profiet without the writers permission would be a breach of this
libel law was made to make sure no hatred is exposed to a person that injures their reputation e.g Wayne Rooney's sex life being released in the paper
A major breach of these law was the privacy law which News Of The World breached. Employers of NOTW hacked phones of many celebrities including Prince William to listen in on phone conversations like Prince Williams arrangements which he investigated into and found out they NOTW were hacking into voicemails and using code names for payments to cover up there tracks. This later forced the worlds longest and greatest newspaper to stop and apoligies were made to everyone involved in the scandel and police procautions were taken to the employes involved.
I thought this scandel made me think about how it would effect me, I wouldn't like all my private life known to the public and posted in newspapers.
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) are a group of people that classify film and games to make sure they are suitable for a type of audience like making sure theres no swearing in kids films.
OFCOM (Office Of Communications) they make sure that everything shown to the public is okay to be shown to the public and also have guidelines for the producers on how to handle certain situations like racism in programmes
Code of practice
All members of the press have a duty to maintain a high professional standard which includes preamable and public expectations below. It is a set of writers rules which explain how people working in a paticular profession should behave.For example one of the codes is the press must not identify victims of sexual assualt or publish material likely to contribute to such identificatin unless there is adequate justification and they are legally free to do so.
Representation
Representation in media refers to place, people and cultures which are represented in different parts of the media.
Stereotypes of different people are represented in different ways on tv shows. On family guy which talks about a american family it makes men look like the dumb ones and women look like the smart one and in films black ameircans are made to look like gangsters.
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