[Commlist] RIPE@2021 Conference: "Public Service Media’s Contribution to Society"

Public Service Media (PSM) organizations across Europe and beyond are 
increasingly under pressure. Media use is changing rapidly, with 
streaming services and online platforms gaining in importance and making 
it harder for legacy media to hold their ground. The business model of 
newspaper publishers is under pressure, which, in turn, leads to 
disagreement about PSM’s online activities. And many policy-makers are 
highly critical of PSM due to a belief in the efficiency of market 
solutions or for political reasons. As a result, both PSM’s role in a 
digital environment and its funding are under scrutiny.
Increasingly, PSM organizations are using the “contribution to society” 
concept to demonstrate their public value. Yet scholars need to 
critically discuss the analytical value and the usefulness of new 
concepts that are circulated in industry and policy-making – the 
RIPE@2021 conference offers such an opportunity.
RIPE@2021 will take place as a virtual conference on Monday, September 
27, 2021, in the afternoon, and Tuesday, September 28, 2021, in the 
morning (Central European Time). As a positive side effect of the 
virtual format, all interested scholars may participate free of charge.

RIPE@2021 offers:
* A keynote speech by Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, Director 
Digital Society Initiative) titled “Society Rules”.
* A keynote speech by Gilles Marchand (Director-General SRG SSR) tilted 
“SRG SSR Public Value Approach: Managing Our Contribution to Society – A 
Swiss Perspective”.
* The session “How Practitioners and Scholars Can Work Together to 
Demonstrate the Value of PSM” discussing the potential and pitfalls of 
collaboration between academics and PSM practitioners.
* A closing plenary session providing answers to some overarching 
conference questions.
* And dozens of paper presentations focusing on the four conference 
themes “Communication Needs of Changing Societies”, “New Forms of 
Contribution and Distinctiveness”, “Involving Citizens, Building 
Communities”, and “Governance, Communication and Legitimacy Management”.
There will be no live presentations at RIPE@2021. All presentations will 
be pre-recorded and participants can watch them before the conference 
starts. The live sessions will be entirely devoted to discussion. While 
the plenary sessions are open to all registered participants, working 
group sessions are restricted to paper presenters. However, all 
registered participants have access to all the presentations and papers.
To see the complete program and to register for the conference, please 
visit https://www.unifr.ch/dcm/en/ripe-2021
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