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

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ISBN: 9780805830613 | 0805830618
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/1998

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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.

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

(22)

Al MacKay

Developing Television Ratings in Canada and the United States: The Perils and Promises of Self-Regulation

(24)

Stephen D. McDowell

Carleen Maitland

Three Questions About Television Ratings

(12)

Marjorie Heins

Media Filters and the V-Chip

(32)

J. M. Balkin

PART II OTHER PERSPECTIVES, OTHER MEDIA

The V-Chip and Television Ratings: British and European Perspectives

(8)

Andrea Millwood Hargrave

Media Ratings Systems: A Comparative Review

(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

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

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