[ecrea] new book: British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy

British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy
Neoliberalism, Citizenship and the Public Sphere
https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319500966
ISBN 978-3-319-50096-6
By Simon Dawes

About this book

This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private 
and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - 
have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using 
the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point. Unlike most 
books on broadcasting, this text adopts an explicitly Foucauldian and 
genealogical perspective in its account of media history and power, and 
unpicks how the meanings of terms such as 'public service' and 'public 
interest', as well as 'competition' and 'choice', have evolved over 
time. In considering the appropriation by broadcasting scholars of 
concepts such as neoliberalism, citizenship and the public sphere to a 
critical account of broadcasting history, the book assesses their 
appropriateness and efficacy by engaging with interdisciplinary debates 
on each concept. This work will be of particular significance to 
academics and students with an interest in media theory, history, policy 
and regulation, as well as those disposed to understanding as well as 
critiquing the neoliberalization of public media.

About the Author

Simon Dawes is Maître de Conférences at the Université de Versailles 
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France.

Table of contents (12 chapters)

1 Broadcasting Regulation, History and Theory

2 Genealogy, Critique and the Public-Private Dichotomy

3 Broadcasting and the Public Sphere

4 Broadcasting, Citizenship and Consumption

5 Broadcasting and Neoliberalism

6 Problematizing Public Control, Service, Interest and Value

7 Problematizing the Public, Citizens and Consumers

8 Problematizing Monopoly, Competition and Choice

9 The Social, the Political and the Public Sphere

10 Individualization, Voice and Citizenship

11 Neoliberalization as Discursive Process

12 Why the Public-Private Dichotomy Still Matters

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