Social Issues That Affect Media Regulation

• Changing audience consumption
• Changing social attitudes to sex, drugs, violence - more relaxed
• More worried about internet
• Emphasis on classification rather than censorship at bodies like the BBFC
• More concerned about sexual violence, imitable use of weapons, self harm
• More openness, less secrecy
• More concerned with social equality
• Harm test

Film 

• Scapegoat for societal problems
• Moral panics
• Increased illegal consumption via the internet - unregulated and not restricted by age ratings
• nanny state?
• art pushing boundaries
• better understanding of how children consume films/its effect on them

Press 

• Need to protect free press
• freedom of speech
• press's role in democracy
• 'public right to know'
• Phone hacking scandal
• Globalisation
• Internet and self-regulation
• Citizen journalism
• Super-injunctions