- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (10 Feb 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230229670
- ISBN-13: 978-0230229679
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,171,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This book should be read by all people who are concerned about the democratic quality of modern societies.
It raises the crucial question of how to secure the provision of information and entertainment through multiple public-service platforms. Strongly recommended!'
- Professor Dr Cees J. Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, Holland
'This well-designed collection of brilliant, informative, and generally supportive analyses of European public TV is important reading for anyone interested in the present of these central institutions and their rocky transition to a broader set of digital public service media.'
- Professor Eli Noam, Columbia University, USA
'A very timely and extremely valuable collection of essays on public service media in a digital age. Highly commendable.'
- Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK
'Reinventing Public Service Communication is an expansive collection, amounting to a critical and realistic defence of public service responsibilities across media. Any scholar with even the slightest interest in the area should look at the book, and anyone including public service communication within their research or teaching portfolio will find Petros Iosifidis's collection indispensible.'
- Michael Higgins, European Journal of Communication
It raises the crucial question of how to secure the provision of information and entertainment through multiple public-service platforms. Strongly recommended!'
- Professor Dr Cees J. Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, Holland
'This well-designed collection of brilliant, informative, and generally supportive analyses of European public TV is important reading for anyone interested in the present of these central institutions and their rocky transition to a broader set of digital public service media.'
- Professor Eli Noam, Columbia University, USA
'A very timely and extremely valuable collection of essays on public service media in a digital age. Highly commendable.'
- Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK
'Reinventing Public Service Communication is an expansive collection, amounting to a critical and realistic defence of public service responsibilities across media. Any scholar with even the slightest interest in the area should look at the book, and anyone including public service communication within their research or teaching portfolio will find Petros Iosifidis's collection indispensible.'
- Michael Higgins, European Journal of Communication
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European Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) are struggling to come to terms with a number of issues: the Europeanisation and globalisation of media ownership, production, programming and distribution; the 'marketisation' of media output; technological convergence; and audience fragmentation. While the prevailing nation-state frameworks for cultural and political identity are gradually fading, some PSBs are finding it hard to serve and promote national culture and identity, and to meet the challenge of growing uncertainties within a cosmopolitan Europe.
At the same time, PSBs are considered to be an important way of helping European citizens make sense of such developments by bearing traces of collective identities and therefore creating an expanded, pan-European cultural space. Can PSBs be 'multi-cultural' and mobilise a new sense of Europeanness, while at the same time making the transformation into Public Service Media (PSM) and delivering public service content that will meet audience needs in a digital age? The scholars in this volume - covering mainly European countries but also looking comparatively at the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - discuss the contemporary relevance of PSM as a cultural and political enterprise and as a forum in which a variety of cultural demands can best be met.
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This book is a good, although partisan, review of public service issues in contemporary world. The editor made an effort to widen the scope and go beyond the Anglo-American point of view, which generally flaws Television and Media Studies.
Nevertheless, it is too partisan. It's defence à l'outrance of public service concepts and realities goes beyond the analysis and becomes pure ideology. It seems that some authors, specially the editor, are just looking for arguments to defend unreasonably public service structures with serious problems of adjusting to present-day realities. More than that, the book almost considers "normal" that in some countries public service institutions and contents serve governments and their political propaganda. This book has another problem, very common to those defending any kind of public service, they forget the essence of public service media: content.
I would recommend this book to anyone researching public service ideology and practices around the world, but it should be handle with care. Please use other books to balance the point of view.
Nevertheless, it is too partisan. It's defence à l'outrance of public service concepts and realities goes beyond the analysis and becomes pure ideology. It seems that some authors, specially the editor, are just looking for arguments to defend unreasonably public service structures with serious problems of adjusting to present-day realities. More than that, the book almost considers "normal" that in some countries public service institutions and contents serve governments and their political propaganda. This book has another problem, very common to those defending any kind of public service, they forget the essence of public service media: content.
I would recommend this book to anyone researching public service ideology and practices around the world, but it should be handle with care. Please use other books to balance the point of view.
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