[ecrea] The Value of Public Service Media

New Book from Nordicom



The Value of Public Service Media. RIPE 2013

Edited by Gregory F. Lowe & Fiona Martin

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg 2014, 288 p., ISBN 
978-91-86523-84-8, Price €31





The worth of public service media is under increasing scrutiny in the 
21st century as governments consider whether the institution is a good 
investment and a fair player in media markets. Mandated to provide 
universally accessible services and to cater for groups that are not 
commercially attractive, the institution often confronts conflicting 
demands. It must evidence its economic value, a concept defined by 
commercial logic, while delivering social value in fulfilling its 
largely not-for-profit public service mission and functions. Dual 
expectations create significant complexity for measuring PSM’s overall 
‘public value’, a controversial policy concept that provided the theme 
for the RIPE@2012 conference in Sydney. This book, the sixth in the 
series of RIPE Readers on PSM published by Nordicom, is the culmination 
of robust discourse during that event and the distillation of  its 
scholarly outcomes. The collection of chapters investigates diverse 
conceptions of public service value in media, keyed to distinctions in 
the values and ideals that legitimate the public service enterprise in 
media in many countries.



Further information:  
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publikationer/value-public-service-media







Best regards,



Ulla C.





Ulla Carlsson, Dr., Professor

Director

NORDICOM

University of Gothenburg

Box 713

SE 405 30 Göteborg

www.nordicom.gu.se



























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