[ecrea] Public service media initiatives in the global south

It is a great pleasure to announce the publication of a new book in OPEN 
ACCESS formats with chapter contributions from scholars and 
practitioners from Bangladesh, Morocco, Mexico, Malaysia, Indonesia, 
Taiwan, and South Africa.
*PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA INITIATIVES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH *
Edited by Anis Rahman and Gregory Ferrell Lowe
Published by Simon Fraser University Library, Canada
Access here: 
http://monographs.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/sfulibrary/catalog/book/1
*CONTENTS:*
*Preface*, /Gregory Ferrell Lowe/
*Introduction*, /Anis Rahman/
Chapter 1, /Anis Rahman/
*Public Media Initiatives in Bangladesh and South Asia: Politics and 
Prospects*

Chapter 2, /Bouziane Zaid /
*Public Service Broadcasting Structure and Performance in Morocco and 
the MENA Region *
Chapter 3, /José Antonio Brambila/
*Public Media Service in Mexico and Latin America: Recent Improvements 
and Future Challenges*
Chapter 4, /Roslina Abdul Latif/ & /Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan/
*PSM Initiatives in the Southeast Asian Region: A Comparative Study 
between Malaysia and Indonesia*
Chapter 5, /Hamilton Chung-Ming Cheng/ & /Yang Lee/
*Taiwan Public Service Broadcasting—Devoted Professionalism, 
Representative Civil Society, and Weak Governance*
Chapter 6, /Nomonde Gongxeka/
*South Africa’s Experience with Public Service Media *
"This volume counter-balances the heavy Western bias in the existing 
scholarship, which often laments the decline or crisis of public service 
media (PSM). Proceeding with both a theoretical and comparative 
sensibility, and centred on seven case studies from the global South, 
this book explores major challenges and opportunities for PSM. 
Refreshingly optimistic, it generates some surprising conclusions about 
the role of both the state and local communities in the performance and 
future of PSM in the distinctive cultural and political contexts of the 
South. It will be a valuable resource to media researchers, teachers, 
policymakers, practitioners, and anyone concerned with the prospects for 
democratic communication globally."
-- *Robert A. Hackett 
<https://www.sfu.ca/communication/people/faculty/hackett.html>*, 
Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"This book makes an important and timely contribution to an increasingly 
global discourse on the meanings, values and roles of public service in 
media provision today. While acknowledging the significant contributions 
of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in 
efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the 
contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well 
enough across such a diverse range of countries and regions with crucial 
differences in their histories, languages, cultures and experiences. The 
substance demonstrates the crucial importance of socio-cultural and 
politico-historical context as the decisive issue to keep firmly in mind 
when devising policies to facilitate media practice in the public 
interest. The case countries are well selected to represent a 
cross-section of experiences in Latin America, the Middle East and North 
Africa, South Asia and southern Africa. The similarity of challenges is 
a particular interest, but equally the significant differences that 
signal the importance of adaptation to local and national conditions. 
The lessons highlighted in the introductory chapter merit fair 
consideration by policy-makers, scholars and researchers, and advocacy 
foundations with an interest to support the development of media as 
democratic institutions and democracy in practice."
-- *Gregory Ferrell Lowe 
<http://www.uta.fi/cmt/en/contact/staff/greglowe/index.html>*, RIPE 
<http://ripeat.org/> Continuity Director, Professor of Media Management, 
School of Communication, Media & Theatre, University of Tampere, Finland
"This book Understanding public service in today’s media environment 
requires analyses of its three basic characteristics. The most obvious 
is (the possibility of) digital multimedia presence beyond broadcasting. 
Another is the institutional remit and legitimization of public service 
in the era of abundant content and multiple avenues of access. The third 
characteristic is its nation-bound nature in global, borderless media 
markets. This collection of studies is an important and fresh 
contribution to the debates that address these three characteristics 
outside of the well-researched terrain of public service institutions in 
the Global North. This book continues the work of the Mapping Digital 
Media project of the Open Society Foundations, by providing invaluable 
and rare comparative outlooks, while deepening our understanding of 
public media in each featured country."
-- *Minna Aslama Horowitz 
<http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/minna-aslama-horowitz>*, PhD, 
Assistant Professor, International Communication, St. John's University, 
New York, USA



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