The V-chip Debate: Content Filtering From Television To the Internet

by Price,Monroe E.

• ISBN13: 9780805830613
• ISBN10: 0805830618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A detailed commentary about the V-chip and its impact on communication policy. for scholars, lawyers, policy makers, and others interested in mass comm., broadcasting, and program rating issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Monroe E. Price
PART I ADOPTING THE V-CHIP SYSTEM: CANADA AND THE U.S.
In Search of Reasonable Solutions: The Canadian Experience with Television Ratings and the V-Chip	1	(22)
Al MacKay
Developing Television Ratings in Canada and the United States: The Perils and Promises of Self-Regulation	23	(24)
Stephen D. McDowell
Carleen Maitland
Three Questions About Television Ratings	47	(12)
Marjorie Heins
Media Filters and the V-Chip	59	(32)
J. M. Balkin
PART II OTHER PERSPECTIVES, OTHER MEDIA
The V-Chip and Television Ratings: British and European Perspectives	91	(8)
Andrea Millwood Hargrave
Media Ratings Systems: A Comparative Review	99	(34)
Joel Federman
Who Will Rate the Ratings?	133	(24)
James T. Hamilton
Media Content Labeling Systems: Informational Advisories or Judgmental Restrictions?	157	(22)
Donald F. Roberts
An Alternative to Government Regulation and Censorship: Content Advisory Systems for Interactive Media	179	(16)
C. Dianne Martin
Motion Picture Ratings in the United States	195	(12)
Richard M. Mosk
PART III THE INTERNET DEBATE
Yelling ``Filter'' on the Crowded Net: The Implications of User Control Technologies	207	(14)
Daniel J. Weitzner
Rating the Net	221	(116)
Jonathan Wemberg
PART IV APPENDIX
A Canada
I. Report to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission	247	(9)
II. The Canadian Television Rating System	256	(3)
B United States
I. Public Law 104-104, Telecommunications Act of 1996	259	(4)
II. Statement by All Segments of the Television Industry	263	(1)
III. TV Parental Guidelines-First Proposed System	264	(7)
IV. Public Notice FCC 97-34	271	(3)
V. Joint Statement of Motion Picture Association of America, National Association of Broadcasters, National Cable Television	274	(1)
VI. TV Parental Guidelines-Revised Proposal	275	(6)
VII. TV Parental Guidelines-On-Screen Icons	281	(1)
VIII. The UCLA Television Violence Report 1996	282	(23)
C Europe
I. European Union, Television Without Frontiers Directive II	305	(1)
II. European Union, Green Paper on the Protection of Minors and Human Dignity in Audiovisual and Information Services	306	(12)
III. French Audiovisual Council, Violence on Television: Steps in the Cooperation between the French Audiovisual Council (CSA) and Broadcasters	318	(2)
IV. French Audiovisual Council, The Protection of Minors, Excerpts from the TF1 and M6 Licences	320	(3)
D Bibliography	323	(14)
Mariene Gebauer
Barry Sherman
Contributors	337	(4)
Author Index	341	(4)
Subject Index	345