The return of public media policy in New Zealand: New hope or lost cause?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Media

The formation of a new coalition government in New Zealand in the wake of the 2017 election ended three terms of National-led governments and raised the prospect of a significant shift in media policy. National had insisted that in the digital media ecology, the funding of public broadcasting institutions was no longer a priority and that platform-neutral contestable funding of local content would ensure the quality and diversity of content. This saw the demise of the TVNZ Charter and its two commercial-free channels (TVNZ 6 and 7), while both Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and the local content funding agency, NZ On Air, had their funding frozen. The 2017 election of the Labour-NZ First-Green government came with the promise of an additional investment of NZ$38m in public media, the expansion of RNZ’s remit to include a commercial-free television channel, and the establishment of an independent commission to assess funding needs for public media. However, the media ecology Labour now faces entails new policy complexities. Deregulation, financialization and convergence have not only intensified commercial pressures on the media, they have led to important shifts in the ways audiences discover and engage with media content. In turn, this complicates the traditional models of state intervention intended to deliver public service outcomes. Adopting a critical institutionalist framework this article will highlight key shifts in media policy trajectory since 1999 and highlight some key differences between the public broadcasting initiatives of 1999–2008 and the approach thus far of the incoming government. The article analyses how competing intra-party and inter-ministerial priorities have circumscribed the media policy options available and thereby highlight the way political–economic interests in the media ecology manifest in public policy.

Mission impossible? Research praxis and activist interventions in New Zealand media policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Peter A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Research Praxis

Over the last two decades, public media arrangements in many countries have been eroded by unsympathetic governments cutting subsidies/license fees or, in some cases, actively dismantling their institutional arrangements. The proliferation of online/mobile/interactive media has legitimated a view among some policy-makers and vested interests within the private media sector that public service provisions are an anachronism in the digital media ecology. In such a context, critical media scholars whose research is intended to not only inform the academic community but influence public policy face significant challenges. Drawing on the author’s own experience of praxis in the New Zealand media policy sector, the article presents three case studies: the campaign to save TVNZ7, the campaign to unfreeze Radio New Zealand’s funding and the Fairfax-NZME merger. These serve to highlight some of the practical and normative challenges for research praxis, particularly those encountered by scholars who engage with pro-public service media advocacy coalitions. In doing so, the analysis will identify several points of tension that arise when research praxis attempts to extend beyond describing the world to trying to influence the policies and practices being studied. These include questions of whether it is possible/desirable to sustain academic objectivity/neutrality in seeking to develop stakeholder relations or whether commitment to an ideological or politically partisan position is necessary or problematic. The complexities and compromises of seeking access to policy-makers as an ‘insider’ as opposed to neutral ‘outsider’ are also considered. The analysis concludes that there is no necessary contradiction between critical praxis and scholarly independence and, indeed, that praxis may serve to improve the quality of academic scholarship through stakeholder engagement.

scholarly journals The Media Ecology of Public Television based on Local Information Programs in South Kalimantan

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 152-162
Author(s):  
Atika A
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Niche Breadth ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Niche Theory ◽  
Local Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Broadcast Programs

Televisi Republik Indonesia Kalimantan Selatan (TVRI Kalsel) is a local public television station in South Kalimantan which expected to have sufficient supporting resources so that it can meet the information needs of local people. This study analyzes media ecology on TVRI Kalsel, specifically in local content-based programs. The objective of this research is to determine the category of  TVRI Kalsel's niche breadth based on local content programs. Quantitative approach is used, where the data is analyzed using Niche Theory. Data was collected through interviews and program observation. The data is then analyzed using instrument sheet containing the program’s title and categories of information. The results showed that TVRI Kalsel as the only Public Broadcasting Institution in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, was included in the generalist category with 3.56 score. The score showed that TVRI Kalsel had quite a lot of supporting resources from information broadcast programs with local content. There were eight programs broadcasting information with local content. Those eight programs broadcast information were in form of straight news, features, features documentaries, and talk shows.

Think Global, Act Global: Corporate Content Streaming and Australian Media Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Murray
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Ownership Reform ◽  
Media Corporations

Australia's media policy agenda has recently been dominated by debate over two key issues: media ownership reform, and the local content provisions of the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement. Challenging the tendency to analyse these issues separately, the article considers them as interlinked indicators of fundamental shifts occurring in the digital media environment. Converged media corporations increasingly seek to achieve economies of scale through ‘content streaming’: multi-purposing proprietary content across numerous digitally enabled platforms. This has resulted in rivalries for control of delivery technologies (as witnessed in media ownership debates) as well as over market access for corporate content (in the case of local content debates). The article contextualises Australia's contemporary media policy flashpoints within international developments and longer-term industry strategising. It further questions the power of media policy as it is currently conceived to deal adequately with the challenges raised by a converging digital media marketplace.

scholarly journals From Traditional to New Media - Pmi (Public Media Institution Radio Television of Vojvodina) Rtv of Vojvodina in Step with the 21st Century and Media Literacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
MsC Sonja Kokotović ◽  
PhD Miodrag Koprivica
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Regular Education ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Made In

Today, digital media technologies enable faster reaching the necessary information and placement information that are important to the user, quickly and easily using new communication channels available to everyone around the world. Internet mainly compared with the "information buffet" from which users take as much information as he is when he needs to. This information can be used for information, education, entertainment, advertising, sales, and other aspects of the business. As we live in the age of new media, which enabled the creation and exchange a wide variety of content, including the content of traditional media such as those produced by JMU broadcasting a large number of Internet users, researchers influence of the media warn of increase dependence on the media, especially new and the need to create the institutional basis for the introduction of media education in the regular education program. Gradual influence of new media people indirectly determine the meaning of life, because it is believed that two-thirds of our waking time with the media or with media and other activity. This work will define terms such as Internet, communications, new media, media literacy, social media, media content, but ... I will analyze the expectations and challenges that we accelerated technical and technological developments made in terms of the Internet and other forms of electronic promotions.

scholarly journals Zmiany w polityce medialnej Węgier i Polski

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Konarska
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

Changes in the media policy of Hungary and Poland Changes in media policy in Poland in 2015–2020 suggest a correlation with the changes initiated in Hungary in 2010, when Viktor Orbán and his party Fidesz took power. The aim of the article is to present and make a comparative analysis of the changes introduced in the media policy of both countries. The list of regulations and actions of the government elites, consisting in interfering with media markets and the activities of public media, shows many similarities and common elements of media policy.

scholarly journals Politics and the financial crisis

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-218
Author(s):  
Bill Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Regulatory Review ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
International Financial Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Two major events had been dominating effects in the New Zealand media in 2008. The general election was a demanding time in which the media played an active role beyond simply reporting events and came under scurtiny almost as much as the politicians. The international financial crisis became real for the world economy including New Zealand during the year. It cut advertising revenue, leading to financial stresses which had multiple effects on the media as for the rest of the economy. Covering the crisis in all its unpleasent innovation, historical parallels and complexity was also a test of journalists and media outlets in New Zealand as elsewhere. Meanwhile, digital media have continued to expand their coverage, influence, and financial impact, forcing the conventional media to change in the way they see the world. In New Zealand this was emphasised by a wide-ranging regulatory review. It is remarkable that ownership of the media has remained stable during the year. This is as much a result of the credit crunch as depite it: one major owners tried to sell and failed. The ownership continues to be highly concentrated with further acquisitions and centralisation by the major owners. This second annual survey of the media also looks at some developments between the law and the media and changes in the newspaper, internet, magazine, television and radio segements. 

scholarly journals Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. A02
Author(s):  
Emma Weitkamp ◽  
Elena Milani ◽  
Andy Ridgway ◽  
Clare Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Healthy Diets ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Media

This study explores the types of actors visible in the digital science communication landscape in the Netherlands, Serbia and the U.K. Using the Koru model of science communication as a basis, we consider how science communicators craft their messages and which channels they are using to reach audiences. The study took as case studies the topics of climate change and healthy diets to enable comparison across countries, topics and platforms. These findings are compared with the results from a survey of over 200 science communication practitioners based in these countries. We find that although traditional media are challenged by the variety of different new entrants into the digital landscape, our results suggest that the media and journalists remain highly visible. In addition, our survey results suggest that many science communicators may struggle to gain traction in the crowded digital ecology, and in particular, that relatively few scientists and research institutions and universities are achieving a high profile in the public digital media ecology of science communication.

scholarly journals Niche Market Analysis on Local Television Through Media Ecology Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Lalu Ramli N ◽  
Sulhaini Sulhaini ◽  
Lalu M. Furkan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Market Analysis ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Niche Market ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Broadcasting Industry ◽  
The Media

The broadcasting law number 32, 2002 provides space for developing local broadcasting institutions in the regions, including the Local Public Broadcasting Institute (LPPL) Selaparang TV. On the other hand, the proliferation of local TV also raises many doubts because its competition is also increasing. As a business entity, local televisions face many challenges. Local televisions and other industries need the income that supports its survival as part of the media industry. With a limited source of media income, local television existence inevitably is threatened. Moreover, there are not many large industries or companies in Nusa Tenggara Barat province that can support local broadcasting institutions' sustainability. This phenomenon is interesting to study how local TV can survive in a competitive broadcasting industry with limited advertising sources. The object of this research took one of the local TV stations in East Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat province, namely the Local Public Broadcasting Institute (LPPL) Selaparang TV. The data analyzed relied on a media ecology approach. The method used to analyze the data from fieldwork is a descriptive qualitative approach

scholarly journals INTEGRATION CHALLENGES OF MEDIA POLICY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Mirza Mehmedović
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Media System ◽  
Public Media ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media

In the process of political transition of the Western Balkan countries, the non-EU countries in particular, the reform of communication systems occupies one of the primary places within the implementation of economic, cultural, political and integration processes of each country. Communication research that seeks to define the dilemmas of the current communication situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a determining framework of the media system, includes many socio-political factors conditioned by structural changes within the society of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last 25 years. The complete cultural and political deconstruction of the Bosnian society at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century destabilized the internal organization of the political, cultural and economic system, especially in the domain of public communication and organization of the media subsystem. Apart from the numerous current challenges, the development of a unified media policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the establishment of a public media system in accordance with the requirements of the European Union and the interests of all citizens, are among the key issues that state institutions are facing at the moment. This paper primarily deals with the analysis of the European Commission’s annual reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s progress in the process of implementing reforms in the media policy sector and based on these annual reports it suggests the key factors for future national media policy definition. The goal is to establish a national media policy and reform the communication system in a broader context as a political, cultural and economic issue, i.e., as an institutionally agreed path for political compromise, integration of society and definition of collective identities.

scholarly journals Media Convergence Policy Issues

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Mansell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Media ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Political Demand

Digital technologies are frequently said to have converged. This claim may be made with respect to the technologies themselves or to restructuring of the media industry over time. Innovations that are associated with digitalization (representing analogue signals by binary digits) often emerge in ways that cross the boundaries of earlier industries. When this occurs, technologies may be configured in new ways and the knowledge that supports the development of services and applications becomes complex. In the media industries, the convergence phenomenon has been very rapid, and empirical evidence suggests that the (de)convergence of technologies and industries also needs to be taken into account to understand change in this area. There is a very large literature that seeks to explain why convergence and (de)convergence phenomena occur. Some of this literature looks for economic and market-based explanations on the supply side of the industry, whereas other approaches explore the cultural, social, and political demand side factors that are important in shaping innovation in the digital media sector and the often unexpected pathways that it takes. Developments in digital media are crucially important because they are becoming a cornerstone of contemporary information societies. The benefits of digital media are often heralded in terms of improved productivity, opportunities to construct multiple identities through social media, new connections between close and distant others, and a new foundation for democracy and political mobilization. The risks associated with these technologies are equally of concern in part because the spread of digital media gives rise to major challenges. Policymakers are tasked with governing these technologies and issues of privacy protection, surveillance, and commercial security as well as ensuring that the skills base is appropriate to the digital media ecology need to be addressed. The complexity of the converged landscape makes it difficult to provide straightforward answers to policy problems. Policy responses also need to be compatible with the cultural, social, political, and economic environments in different countries and regions of the world. This means that these developments must be examined from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and need to be understood in their historical context so as take both continuities and discontinuities in the media industry landscape into account.

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