scholarly journals From ‘Content Providers’ to ‘Key Social Structures’: a Turn to Practice in Citizens’ Discourses on Spanish Public Service Television (TVE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (51) ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Concha Mateos Martín ◽  
María Lamuedra ◽  
Manuel Broullón-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Two Stages

This work analyses the evolution of citizens’ discourses on public service broadcasting in Spain before and after the wave of social unrest occurring between 2011 and 2013. A shift from a demand for barely defined towards more specific content, relating to the very structure of public service broadcasting, was detected. On the basis of an analysis of 11 focus groups formed by viewers of Televisión Española (TVE) and performed in two stages (2008-2009 and 2014-2016), a paradigm definable as a ‘turn to practice’ is confirmed. It has been observed that the practices pertaining to that paradigm have advocated for convergence and collaboration in the fields of information, the arts, critical thinking and certain institutional policies, which are also present in the citizenry’s definition of public service broadcasting. This has led viewers to call for a greater say in public service broadcasting and to emphasise communitarian forms of relating to it.

THE PROBLEM OF CONCEPTUALIZING THE PHENOMENON OF PRACTICE IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY STRATEGIES OF POST-NON-CLASSICAL SCIENCE

2018 ◽  
pp. 496-507
Author(s):  
Svetlana R. Dinaburg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Life Activity ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Oriented Approach

The difficulty of identifying the sustainable content of the concept of practice is due to the diversity of its application in various areas of social knowledge and the humanities in a changing world. Approaches to the definition of the notion of practice based on the principles of classical scientific rationality interpreted this phenomenon within the framework of certain concepts. From the standpoint of modern pluralism, classical concepts of practice expressed their specific content within local boundaries and presented only a few aspects of practical human activity in the dynamics of social relations. Philosophical concepts and social theories explaining the nature of practice have long remained disciplinarily isolated de facto, not revealing their potential. The modern use of the concept of practice is universal but highly uncertain, and in fact it is associated with any life activity. The task of detecting semantic differences and attempts to synthesize universal contents of practical activities rooted in culture and having a specific historical sig-nificance is carried out based on the principles of the transdisciplinary approach. This approach is focused both on the integration of tools developed by various disciplinary areas and communication strategies aimed at developing common solutions in situations of conflict of interests and disagreement. In this re-gard, the possibilities of the research style called the «theory of practices», based on the ideas (developing the concept of L. Wittgenstein) of the background nature of the practices and the potential revealing those (justified by M. Heidegger), are considered. The principle of problematization (according to M. Foucault) of the diversity of the definition of practices for identifying common issues is shown in connection with communication strategies in post-non-classical practices. The practice-oriented approach allows us to perceive the practices as social structures which link subjective positions of the practitioner and the re-searcher. The interconnection of practices and the possibility of their communication in a self-organizing development are shown through the example of phenomena in philosophical practice and psychotherapy in integral social space.

Everything for Someone: For an Inclusive Definition of Public Service Broadcasting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Mills
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

This chapter considers the issue of universality in public service broadcasting (PSB). Definitions of PSB throughout the world — typically drawing on the UK, Reithian model — insist that PSB can only function if services are universal. This is conventionally understood as being in terms of access; that all citizens have a right to the material and services offered by PSB, primarily because all citizens should have equal access to public services. But universality should not be understood solely in terms of access. It must also be considered in terms of content. A universal PSB enables all citizens to see their lives reflected and valued within content, and this is only possible if PSB encompasses as wide a range of genres and programming as possible. However, despite claims to universality, discourses within which debates about PSB function often hierarchise different kinds of PSB provision.

scholarly journals 'Don't Use the A-word': Arts By Stealth at the ABC—A Latourian Analysis

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Jacka
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
The Future ◽  
Minor Episode

The future of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the digital age receives an enormous amount of both media and academic attention. However, much of the analysis and debate is locked into some fairly stale and repetitious discourses polarised around oppositions such as state/market and popular/elite. In this article the author describes a very minor episode in the long saga of public service broadcasting, namely recent changes to its coverage of the arts, using some insights drawn from the repertoire of ANT, and argue that it provides better resources for illuminating this episode that the more usual frameworks used to analyse such issues.

‘Terrible things happen’: Peter Bowker's Occupation and the Representation of the Iraq War in British Television Drama

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harper
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Military Involvement ◽  
British Military ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

Peter Bowker and Laurie Borg's three-part television drama Occupation (2009) chronicles the experiences of three British soldiers involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. By means of an historically situated textual analysis, this article assesses how far the drama succeeds in presenting a progressive critique of the British military involvement in Iraq. It is argued that although Occupation devotes some narrative space to subaltern perspectives on Britain's military involvement in Iraq, the production – in contrast to some other British television dramas about the Iraq war – tends to privilege pro-war perspectives, elide Iraqi experiences of suffering, and, through the discursive strategy of ‘de-agentification’, obfuscate the extent of Western responsibility for the damage the war inflicted on Iraq and its population. Appearing six years after the beginning of a war whose prosecution provoked widespread public dissent, Occupation's political silences perhaps illustrate the BBC's difficulty in creating contestatory drama in what some have argued to be the conservative moment of post-Hutton public service broadcasting.

Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mastracci
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.

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