Task 4: Legal and Ethical- Cultural

Cultural censorship of social media and the impact on media production (e.g. China, North Korea, Turkey)

Countries with dictatorships don't allow media to publicly criticize governments unlike the United Kingdom with their free press. They also don't want their citizens having access to western culture so they have their own social media and don't have allow people to use Twitter and Facebook etc. China use social media such as WeChat and Weiboi. The Chinese equivalent of YouTube is called TuDou. This impacts media production as film posters maybe different in certain countries depending on the social norms so for example, a female superhero cannot have revealing clothing in countries such as Saudi Arabia as that is frowned upon in their country.

Bias and ideology (e.g. in terms of cultural distinction of social norms and marketing practice)

Bias is when you favour one point of view over another. If you have an ideology, you have a specific belief and have certain values. 


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