On thin ice: Hockey Night in Canada and the future of national public service media

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cwynar
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This article considers the implications of rising sports rights fees and emerging digital media technologies for legacy public service broadcasters. I argue that, while the Hockey Night in Canada sublicensing agreement with Rogers prompted a significant amount of criticism of the CBC at the time, it is consistent with the broader history of the program. Furthermore, the situation is most significant in that it exposes the tensions between the CBC and the marketplace as manifested in CBC-TV. I suggest that this deal illustrates that the CBC should exit the commercial television marketplace. I conclude by suggesting that the CBC should shift its focus toward a renewed emphasis on noncommercial programming in areas often neglected by the commercial media. This approach could potentially provide a model for how legacy public service media institutions might reassert their civic and cultural value in an increasingly convergent and commercialized mediascape.

Mad Practices and Mobilities Bringing Voices to Digital Ethnography

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Cherry Baylosis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract There is a claim that digital media technologies can give voice to the voiceless (Alper 2017). As Couldry (2008) points out it is now commonplace for people - who have never done so before - to tell, share and exchange stories within, and through digital media. Additionally, the affordances of mobile media technologies allow people to speak, virtually anytime and anywhere, while the new internet based media sees that these processes converge to allow stories, information, ideas and discourses to circulate through communicative spaces, and into the daily lives of people (Sheller/Urry 2006). The purpose of this paper is to discuss a methodological framework that can be used to examine the extent that digital media practices can enable voice. My focus is on people ascribed the status of mental illness - people who have had an enduring history of silencing and oppression (Parr 2008). I propose theories of mobilities, and practice, to critically examine voice in practices related to digital media. In doing this, I advocate for digital ethnographic methods to engage these concepts, and to examine the potential of voice in digital mobile media. Specifically, I outline ethnographic methods involving the use of video (re)enactments of digital practices, and the use of reflective interviews to examine every day routines and movements in and around digital media (Pink 2012). I propose that observing and reflecting on such activities can generate insights into the significance these activities have in giving voice to those who are normally unheard.

scholarly journals FROM VIRTUAL-REALITY FUSION TO COMPREHENSIVE VIRTUAL: THE FUTURE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
BO XU
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Space Body ◽  
The Future ◽  
Significant Effort

The performing arts have experienced the transformation from traditional to digital in the twentieth century and now are on the edge of digital to virtual phase. In this process, digital media technologies make significant effort to mediate conventional performances, which bring new features to some aspects of performing arts. This paper examines the phenomenon through space, body and interactivity these three fundamental elements to check what has happened during the transition and what new characteristics appear. Despite theory discussion, this article also uses fresh examples such as virtual idol, virtual performance, online game entertainment event and other like to investigate the connotations of the concepts about immersion, embodiment, presence in digital virtual environment.

scholarly journals The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Utopias Survey Report

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-68
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
The Future ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Progressive Reforms

This chapter presents the results of the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Utopias Survey, an exploratory survey conducted by Christian Fuchs. The survey was the first step in the process that led to the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. The exploratory survey was focused on gathering ideas about the future of the Internet and public service media. The survey was qualitative in nature and focused on three themes: communication, digital media and the Internet in an ideal world; progressive reforms of public service media; public service media and the Internet in 2030. There were 141 responses. The survey results informed and structured the further work process that led to the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. The survey provides ample evidence for the importance of Public Service Media for the future of the democratic public sphere and shows that the Public Service Internet is the key issue for the future of Public Service Media. The survey inspired concrete utopian thinking among the respondents in order to generate new ideas about the future of the Internet. The exploratory survey was focused on gathering ideas about the future of the Internet and public service media. The survey was qualitative in nature and focused on three themes: communication, digital media and the Internet in an ideal world; progressive reforms of public service media; public service media and the Internet in 2030. There were 141 responses. The survey results informed and structured the further work process that led to the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. The survey provides ample evidence for the importance of Public Service Media for the future of the democratic public sphere and shows that the Public Service Internet is the key issue for the future of Public Service Media. The survey inspired concrete utopian thinking among the respondents in order to generate new ideas about the future of the Internet.

scholarly journals Negotiating Professional News Judgment and “Clicks”

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Karlsson ◽  
Christer Clerwall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
News Values ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The One

Abstract Digital media allow for instant tracking of audience behaviour, thus enabling a potential negotiation between journalists’ traditional authority and professional news values, on the one hand, and the audience’s power in terms of ignoring or paying attention to the journalistic outcome, on the other. The present study investigates whether clicks change news values and have an impact on news routines in tabloid, broadsheet and public service newsrooms. The findings indicate that audience metrics bring a new dimension to the news evaluation process regardless of publishing tradition, but that the commercial media seem to keep a closer tab on traffic. In general, journalists strive for a “good mix” between customization to achieve audience satisfaction and a desire for editorial independence.

Museum or Mausoleum?

2011 ◽  
pp. 10-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Thomas ◽  
Marianne Selsjord ◽  
Robert Zimmer
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Museum Visit ◽  
Dynamic Vision ◽  
The Future

Web 2.0 offers exciting possibilities and challenges for extending the museum visit, engaging new visitors and attracting distant audiences. However, the digital media technologies that enable distributed, shared and user/novice-generated audiovisual content can be deployed by experts in other fruitful ways to augment and rejuvenate actual visits to interpretation centres. Going beyond the e-guide, integrated audiovisual media can offer original new visions of ancient cultures, bring intangible as well as physical heritage to the museum, and make exploring it a lively and vivid contemporary experience. Developing and exhibiting original digital art to make the museum visit more dynamic requires new ways of researching, funding, supporting and curating exhibitions. This chapter contextualizes and reviews two recent European case-studies which aim to enhance the museum visit, noting how they were funded and developed, commenting on these approaches and reviewing how improved infrastructures might support attractive, revitalising, dynamic vision in the future

scholarly journals ‘It could redefine public service broadcasting in the digital age’

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Final Approval ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

In November 2015, the BBC Trust gave its final approval for BBC Three to cease broadcasting on television in the United Kingdom and become an online-only entity. The decision is a landmark moment in the history of BBC Television and has significant implications for BBC planning in relation to the continued transition from broadcast television to streaming and download services. In this article, the original proposals for moving BBC Three online are assessed and discussed within the wider context of current BBC policy. It is argued that the rationale used for moving BBC Three online is based on arguments that vary in the extent to which they are backed by evidence. It is also argued that the plans have significant regulatory implications for the future of BBC Television and for the television licence fee in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Documenting the world at home and abroad : The Jacques Madvo collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Jokinen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Value ◽  
Found Footage ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Home Movies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
At Home

This thesis draws on the cataloguing and examination of the Madvo Collection at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) as the basis to determine the value of his independent non-fiction films and resolve possible scenarios for their preservation. The collection contains 240 canisters of 16mm non-fiction films and production elements that LIFT intends to use as a resource for found footage films. This raises several concerns for the future of the materials, the most critical of which is the physical destruction of the films. This thesis aims to create a record of Madvo’s oeuvre so that his work can be protected from LIFT’s claim to use it as found footage. It offers different uses for the materials, as well as a broader perspective on the cultural value of the collection, paying particular attention to its importance for the history of amateur films and home movies.

scholarly journals Crowding out: Is there evidence that public service media harm markets? A cross-national comparative analysis of commercial television and online news providers

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Sehl ◽  
Richard Fletcher ◽  
Robert G Picard
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Online News ◽  
Crowding Out ◽  
Online Markets ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Policy Argument ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross National

The impact of public service media (PSM) on media competition has become a topic of debate in many European countries. Some argue that PSM could starve commercial media, or discourage them from entering markets in the first place because they shrink commercial audiences, lowering both advertising income for free commercial television and willingness to pay for commercial products. Despite its prevalence as a policy argument, there has been limited research about the crowding out concept – and almost no research that is independent, comparative, and considers broadcasting as well as online markets. This article addresses these shortcomings by examining whether there is any evidence to support the crowding out argument by analysing national broadcast and online markets in all 28 European Union countries. More specifically, we focus on data on market resources, audience performance and payment for digital news. The analysis reveals little to no support for the crowding out argument for broadcasting and related online markets.

Fans as e-participants? Utopia/dystopia visions for the future of digital sport fandom

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damion Sturm
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
New Model ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Evolution Of Technology ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Carry Over

Media technologies and digital practices are reshaping and redefining the future of sport fandom. This article points to some of the utopian and dystopic transformations for fandom presented by (post)television, digital/social media and the anticipated virtual technologies of the future. Specifically, three distinct phases of fan participation are charted around existing and futuristic visions of technology-as-sport. First are the current televisual technologies that attempt to engage and retain traditionally “passive” viewers as spectators through pseudo-participatory perspectives that will carry over to new screens and technologies. Second, the assumed interactive participation afforded by social and digital media is considered, positing the future amplification of connectivity, personalisation and networking across digital fan communities, albeit undercut by further impositions of corporatisation and datafication through illusory forms of “interactivity”. Finally, the fusion, intensification and continual evolution of technology-as-sport is explored, asserting that forms of immersive participation will be significant for future virtual technologies and may ultimately re-position fans as e-participants in their own media-tech sport spectacles. Collectively, it is anticipated that the creation of new virtual worlds, spaces and experiences will amplify and operationalise forms of immersive participation around augmented spectatorship, virtual athletic replication and potentially constitute the sport itself. Indeed, a new model of the fan-as-immersed-e-participant is advanced as such futuristic virtual sporting realms may not only integrate fans into the spectacle but also project them into the event as participant and as the spectacle.

Die Zukunft vorstellen – Technologie-Demonstrationen in der Geschichte digitaler Medien – Imagining the Future – Technology Demonstrations in the History of Digital Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Christoph Ernst ◽  
Jens Schröter
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Line System ◽  
Van Gogh ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
On Line ◽  
Steve Jobs

Der vorliegende Text widmet sich der Bedeutung von Technologie-Demonstrationen in der Geschichte digitaler Medien. Diese werden als performative Praktiken betrachtet, in denen die Zukunft einer Technologie im Fokus steht. Unter Bezug auf einschlägige sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung diskutiert der Text die Rolle sogenannter imaginaries im Rahmen von Technologie-Demonstrationen. Diese theoretische Schwerpunktsetzung wird im Folgenden auf die Geschichte der Technologie-Demonstration im Bereich digitaler Medientechnologien bezogen. Aufbauend auf dem Gedanken, das speziell die Demonstration von User-Interfaces als Anker für die Mobilisierung von Imaginationen rund um die Zukunft digitaler Technologien dient, sichtet der Text drei Fallbeispiele: 1. die Präsentation des ‚oN-Line-System (NLS)‘ am 9. Dezember 1968 durch Douglas Engelbart; 2. die 100-tägige Demonstration des interaktiven Fernsehens Piazza virtuale während der documenta IX im Sommer 1992 durch die Medienkünstlergruppe Van Gogh-TV; 3. die Keynote-Präsentation des damaligen Apple CEO Steve Jobs anlässlich der Markteinführung des ersten iPhones am 9. Januar 2007. Anhand dieser teils kanonischen, teils vergessenen Beispiele zeigt sich die Bedeutung von Technologie-Demonstrationen für die soziale Vermittlung von neuen Technologien. Der Text schließt mit dem Argument, dass die Geschichte der Imagination digitaler Medien, wie sie in diesen Demonstrationen exemplarisch analysierbar wird, als ein integraler Bestandteil der Geschichte digitaler Medientechnologien generell zu betrachten ist.

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