Discuss the Similarities and Differences between China and UK TV Industries
11 Pages Posted: 6 May 2012
Date Written: May 5, 2012
Abstract
Discussing media and its various aspects can be a daunting task, especially when the television industry is involved. In the modern era, we all live in what McLuhan terms a ‘global village’, a space in which it is possible for every person to contact others via various communication media irrespective of location (McLuhan and Powers, 1992). Media has been defined as a message carrier – carrying or transferring messages between senders and receivers, or between external environments and audiences (Littlejohn, 2002). Meyrowitz (1993) insists that media is channel, language and environment. But what does the term ‘media’ mean exactly? To date, there is no one or simple definition (Littlejohn, 2002). Television (TV) is a form of mass media that helps to transport communication openly and at a distance to many receivers within a short space of time. According to Lu (1999), Peng (2004) and Zhou (2004), in a narrow sense television is a subsidiary industry appertaining to the entire media industry as well as the industrial cluster comprising the corporations or organizations participating in investing, producing, selling, transmitting or broadcasting and investigating television information or programmes, and the relationship between them in the market.
Keywords: television, China, UK, Chenoyceil, Chenoy, lawyer, advocate
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