Burri, Mira (2013). Book Review: Public Service Media and Policy in Europe. Common market law review, 50(2), pp. 667-669. Kluwer Law International
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Much has happened in the past fifty years, and the broadcasting system and in fact the entire media landscape have changed in many significant ways. Yet, the debate on the role of public service media and the involvement of the state in them still perseveres. It has indeed been reinvigorated due to the tectonic shifts in media production, distribution, access and consumption caused by digital technologies in general, and the Internet in particular. The gist of the debates has however curiously remained almost the same and is still focused on a set of economic arguments that call for state intervention in public media, and not unimportantly, on the various political interpretations of these economic arguments. In Europe, the debate has another essential core too, as Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) has been traditionally entrusted to serve some higher goals intrinsically related to key democratic and cultural processes. Accordingly, PSB in Western Europe has developed as the core media institution at the national level and has become deeply embedded in many facets of the nation’s economic, political, social and cultural life.
Against the backdrop of PSB’s history, its vital tasks in society, as well as the dramatic changes brought about by the digitally networked environment, the question on the future of PSB and its transition into Public Service Media (PSM) is very interesting, to say the least, and highly challenging at the same time.
The book by Karen Donders, Public Service Media and Policy in Europe (Palgrave, 2012), makes an essential contribution to these complex debates, and more importantly, adds some new value to an otherwise saturated discourse.
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Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute 10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > Institute of European and International Economic Law |
UniBE Contributor: |
Burri, Tihomira |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation |
ISSN: |
0165-0750 |
Publisher: |
Kluwer Law International |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Tihomira Burri |
Date Deposited: |
25 Aug 2014 14:07 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:24 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.51582 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/51582 |
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