Media Studies.
...production, but media as a whole. This means that when an item is censored it will create a response from mediums such as newspapers, current affairs magazines and news bulletins. When something is less harshly censored, it will effect the production of new items as society’s expectations of media changes.
In order to fully show this, the report will go into details of what exactly censorship is. This requires a compact history of censorship and a description of how it works in New Zealand. Only after understanding these points can we understand how censorship affects us at the moment, and how it will likely affect us in the future.
Many sources of information needed to be collaborated in order to fully show the implications of censorship and to make sure this report is not effected by biases contained by its predecessors. Sources used include many different internet sites, magazines, newspapers and direct correspondence with the Office of Film and Literature Classification.
What is Censorship?
Censorship has a wide variety of meanings; in the broadest sense censorship is a suppression of information by any body of power. These bodies of power can include but are not limited to religious organisations, government departments, parents, teachers, or the people who produce the controversial material themselves and decide to edit it to avoid controversy such as speakers, writers, directors and artists. When someone holds more power than someone else and they forbid the release of information, they are censoring.
The justification for censorship is so as society will not be affected by the release of material that contains information that might make them act out. In a wider context this could mean forbidding the public knowledge of government procedures or historical events, but in the media sense it simply means making films, television shows,...
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