Public Service Media Policies Working Group

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The aim of this Working Group is to examine and make inventories of new performance practices and accountability mechanisms for public broadcasters in different countries, inside and outside Europe and to investigate how they work and what can be learned from them.

Chair: Leen d´Haenens [Contact]
Co-Chair: Jo Bardoel [Contact]

This Working Group is concerned with the performance practices and accountability mechanisms for public broadcasters and the extent to which governments need to intervene in the media market to correct market failures and to guarantee broadcasting as a public merit good. Its members are interested in whether there is a need for a new policy paradigm for public service broadcasting and alternative ways of assessing and measuring public service broadcasting’s value to the public.

IAMCR 2012 - Public Service Media Policies Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffra The Working Group on Public Service Media Policies of the International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions for the IAMCR Conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.

The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.

IAMCR 2013 – Public Service Media Policy Working Group - Call for Papers

alt The Public Service Media Policy Group invites submissions for its sessions at IAMCR annual conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland from 25-29 June 2013. The section seeks research that balances theory and practice, and aims at assessing the public value dimension in a global communications context. We welcome contributions exploring how public service media are coping with both the current economic crisis and technological transformations in the media landscape, by challenging, changing or re-affirming the ‘public interest’ or ‘public service’ roles and orientations of the media.

Istanbul 2011 - European Public Broadcasting Policies Working Group Call for Papers

International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
29th Annual Research Conference
Istanbul, Turkey - July 13-17, 2011

Creating Public Value: For whom?

Braga 2010 - European Public Broadcasting Policies Working Group Call for Papers

braga_2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change
28th Annual Research Conference
Braga, Portugal - July 18-22, 2010

Serving the Citizen - Public Service Broadcasting and Civil Society

Call for Papers

Stockholm 2008 - Working Group on European Public Broadcasting Policies Call for Papers

Stockholm 2008 - Working Group on European Public Broadcasting Policies Call for Papers EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

Convenor: Jo Bardoel, ASCoR, University of Amsterdam / Radboud University Nijmegen

The Working Group on European Public Broadcasting Policies invites submissions to the IAMCR 2008 Congress.

Already for some time now public service broadcasters in Europe and elsewhere are prominently present in the domain of new media. This presence in the digital domain is usually considered as a logical extension of the public remit and is also related to a long-standing tradition of being leading in the introduction of new technologies. At the same time there are also serious restrictions. Due to complaints of commercial competitors at a national and European policy level, public broadcasters are forced to show more explicitly the relation between their new activities in new media services and their contribution to the public value. Moreover, the lack of financial resources often limits the public presence in the digital domain.

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Members' books

Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia

migration_and_new_media Mirca Madianou & Daniel Miller

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.

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