European Public Service Broadcasting Revisited

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
European Public

scholarly journals PSB goes personal: The failure of personalised PSB web pages

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (55) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannick Kirk Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
User Comments ◽  
European Public ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Web

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'CronosPro'; color: #504f53;">Between</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'CronosPro'; color: #504f53;"> 2006 and 2011, a number of European public service broadcasting (PSB) organisations offered their website users the opportunity to create their own PSB homepage. The web customisation was conceived by the editors as a response to developments in commercial web services, particularly social networking and content aggregation services, but the customisation projects revealed tensions between the ideals of customer sovereignty and the editorial agenda-setting. This paper presents an overview of the PSB activities as well as reflections on the failure of the customisable PSB homepages. The analysis is based on interviews with the PSB editors involved in the projects and on studies of the interfaces and user comments. Commercial media customisation is discussed along with the PSB projects to identify similarities and differences. </span></p>

scholarly journals Dealing with viewers’ complaints: Role, visibility and transparency of PSB Ombudsmen in ten European countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolors Palau-Sampio
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Public Corporations ◽  
Corporate Websites ◽  
European Public ◽  
Dissemination Of Results

The article shows the results of a comparative analysis of the complaints management mechanisms offered by ten European Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) systems on their corporate websites. Using a qualitative methodology, it maps the procedures and evaluates the visibility, transparency and dissemination of results. The findings show, firstly, great diversity in terms of responsible election and management, despite the converging media governance. Also noteworthy is the margin of substantial improvement in the transparency and dissemination possibilities, specially relating to the interaction offered by the digital environment. Among the ten public corporations analysed, the BBC is the best ranked, while RAI presents the worst performance. Finally, the comparative analysis shows some correlation within the Hallin and Mancini Mediterranean model, but less are evident among the countries included in the Liberal and Democratic Corporate model.

‘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.

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