[Commlist] IAPMR@Dialogues: Webinar series on Public Service Media

*IAPMR@Dialogues is an ongoing webinar series of the International 
Association of Public Media Researchers.*


Please join us for the inaugural webinars this Fall!


Register for one or for all, here: https://forms.gle/iJSUdtcUopdovtHo6 
<https://forms.gle/iJSUdtcUopdovtHo6>


Tuesday 26 October 1600-1800 CET:

Prof Lizzie Jackson (London South Bank University) Bricolage & Fluidity:

Towards 'Post Channel' PSM?

- With commentary by Madiana Asseraf-Jacob (Head of Business Development 
& Young Audiences, European Broadcasting Union), and Vilde Schanke 
Sundet (University of Oslo)


Young people, the ‘Youth, Media and Culture Network’ and others argue, 
think in terms of media universes not television and radio channels. 
Such media landscapes are composed of linked ‘bricolage’ blending 
professional and publicly-generated content. Such media environments are 
particularly attractive to Generation Z but also younger audiences. 
These are the future stakeholders of Public Service Media, however, 
their recognition of PSM is low. What ARE media universes, and what 
might a PSM who is making such content and/or environments look like? 
Evidence from Glowaki and Jackson (2019) suggests a more fluid, 
entrepreneurial, structure and culture is required. However, is it 
possible to power such media landscapes without radically changing the 
internal structure of PSM?


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Thursday 4 November 1500-1700 CET:

Prof Karen Donders (VRT / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Building Bridges: 
PSM law, theory and practice

–  With commentary by Anette Alen-Savikko (University of Helsinki, 
Faculty of Law), Hilde van den Bulck (Drexel University), and Klaus 
Unterberger (ORF).


Donders and the commentators will discuss the practices of Public 
Service Media across Europe, including the rules that govern Public 
Service Media at both the EU and the National Member State level, common 
trends initiated by both the European Commission and individual 
countries, and the context-dependent development of Public Service 
Media. They will also explore challenges to the theories of Public 
Service Broadcasting which have developed an ideal-type public 
broadcaster based on the well-funded BBC in an atypical media market. 
Seeking to further explore the actual practices of Public Service Media 
and make recommendations for the development of more sustainable 
policies, this webinar will highlight case studies of rules and 
practices from across a variety of EU Member States to consider the 
extent to which public broadcasters are making the transition to public 
media. The event is based on Donders’ award-winning new book: 
https://www.routledge.com/Public-Service-Media-in-Europe-Law-Theory-and-Practice/Donders/p/book/9781138477056 
<https://www.routledge.com/Public-Service-Media-in-Europe-Law-Theory-and-Practice/Donders/p/book/9781138477056>


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Monday 29 November 1600-1830 CET:

Prof Christian Fuchs (U. of Westminster) The Structural Transformation 
of the Public Sphere and Public Service Media in the Age of Digital 
Capitalism and COVID-19

- Respondent: Prof. Slavko Splichal (University of Ljubljana)


The German original of Jürgen Habermas’ book The Structural 
Transformation of the

Public Sphere was published nearly 60 years ago. Christian Fuchs takes 
this anniversary as an occasion to outline some foundations of an 
empirically grounded critical theory of the public sphere in 
21st-century society. He will discuss theoretical foundations and 
present the results of empirical research on the digital public sphere. 
He will give special attention to digital capitalism, COVID-19, public 
service media, and the Internet as aspects of the 21st-century 
transformation of the public sphere.


The talk will give particular attention to the power of the digital 
giants such as Google and Facebook, digital advertising, influencer 
capitalism, labor in the COVID-19 pandemic, digital authoritarianism and 
digital fascism, the spread of “fake news” and anti-vaccination 
conspiracy theories in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Fuchs will stress the importance of strengthening public service media 
and creating a public service Internet as ways for advancing and 
defending the democratic public sphere, which requires guaranteeing the 
latter’s independence from corporate, state, and ideological power. He 
will talk about the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet 
Manifesto (see: http://bit.ly/psmmanifesto 
<https://bit.ly/psmmanifesto?fbclid=IwAR19gGcVgr6QSnZUh4QlvRA0ANdYrulewDMjotolDQrN9aygkHPXYjO4Cqg>) 
that demands safeguarding the independence and funding of PSM and the 
creation of a Public Service Internet.


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