Pleasure and Pedagogy: The consumption of DVD add-ons among Irish Teenagers
Pat Brereton and Barbara O’Connor © School of Communications, DCU.

As Western society has become increasingly media saturated and is characterised by an ever changing media landscape, issues arise about the pleasures for and pedagogical influences of new media in young people’s lives. Much of the popular, and indeed academic, discussion of young people’s use of mass media has been characterised by moral panics around their perceived detrimental effects. Until relatively recently, research on young people and television, for example, has frequently adapted this strategy. New media have been dogged by the same kind of negative perception.

Parents and educators alike have bemoaned the amount of time young people spend on game consoles and the ever expanding web capabilities, particularly chat rooms, as opposed to using the internet to find information. Often these activities are contrasted with other more traditional games and pursuits, which are regarded as physically and mentally healthier ways of spending leisure time. In relation to media education, the traditional response in Ireland and elsewhere has been ‘protectionist’ or ‘innoculationist’ (O’Neill, 2000), whereby it is considered necessary to immunize children against the pernicious effects of the mass media with similar kinds of arguments rehearsed in relation to new media (Lister et al., 2003).

However, an alternative approach has been to argue for the importance of new media in enabling young people to develop media literacy skills and hopefully acquiring a critical approach to media.

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In July 2006 the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Michael McDowell, published a two new Bills: the Defamation Bill 2006 and the Privacy Bill 2006.

The following is the text of an analysis by Andrea Martin, solicitor and media law specialist.

Journalism and the Law: New Threats and Challenges at Law Society
Principal points made by Andrea Martin concerning the Privacy Bill, 2006 at NUJ Conference, 16 September, 2006.

The Privacy Bill published by the Minister for Justice on 4th July 2006 purports to clarify and give greater certainty to the law of Privacy in Ireland. It does neither.

This Bill is ill thought through, poorly drafted and brings even greater uncertainty to this particular area of civil law in Ireland than already exists. It is premature in its introduction and has been presented to Government as a workable piece of legislation in the absence of any comprehensive consultation or debate on its provisions.

The Bill has the potential to stifle legitimate journalistic investigation on matters of public interest. It also leaves journalists working in the context of our 21st century celebrity culture, without any guidelines as to how the entire area of “celebrity journalism” should be approached.

[… read more of this up-to date-analysis here]
 Andrea Martin

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Monday’s Muse:

Is the Freedom of Information Act a help or a hindrance for investigative journalism?

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By Professor Colum Kenny, Dublin City University.

Noel Dempsey T.D. The Minister for Communications called it a “Broadcasting Bill” in his press release of 6 September last. But the document itself is described on its front page as a “General Scheme for the Broadcasting Bill 2006”. This is no mere technical quibble. While the 208 page document is more than scant outline “heads” of a bill, it is by no means a document that is poised to be passed into law. And, with an election pending, that is very important.

Chances are there never will be a real Broadcasting Bill in 2006 or 2007.
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Below is the Minister’s government press release regarding the publication of the Broadcasting Bill for Public Consultation.

Dublin, 6th September 2006

Noel Dempsey T.D., the Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources published a new wide-ranging Broadcasting Bill for public consultation under the eConsultation initiative. This bill is designed to update and modernise the legislative framework for broadcasting in Ireland.

“This bill has a number of key features. It will establish a single content regulator for all commercial, community and public service broadcasters in Ireland, to be known as the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). It will provide a right of reply mechanism to persons whose reputation and good name have been damaged by an assertion of incorrect facts in a television or radio programme. It will extend the public service remit of RTÉ and TG4 and provide for their establishment as limited companies,” said Minister Dempsey.

• The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI)
  The new regulator, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), will encompass the existing regulatory functions of the broadcasting Commission of Ireland, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission and the RTÉ Authority. The BAI will be operationally independent and will be funded primarily by a sectoral levy applicable to all broadcasters in the country.
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