This book investigates the extent to which a Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ethos has been extended to the online world in Europe. It examines the most significant policy initiatives carried out by PSBs in Europe on online platforms, and analyzes how the public service philosophy is being reinvented by policy makers.

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'Public Service Broadcasting Online explains the rich and treasured legacies of, and current threats to, institutions that historically have been vital to a cultural and political sense of belonging and engagement among Europeans. By taking stock of and comparing a diverse range of European public service broadcasting (PSB) systems, Benedetta Brevini helps us understand the ongoing political stakes of the digital migration of PSB. More importantly, at a time when European governments of all kinds have fallen prey to the seductions and imperatives of neoliberal ideology and practice, the author offers invaluable guidance for preserving what is best about European public service media.' - Professor Andrew Calabrese, University of Colorado, USA

'Public service broadcasting was a visionary experiment that extended the social purpose of radio and television through the enabling role of the democratic state. Can the potential of the internet to serve the public be similarly extended through state intervention? What are the obstacles that lie in the way? For an innovative and scholarly answer, read this admirable book.'

- Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

"In short, with this work Brevini adds to the considerable school of thought on PSM. She successfully ties the specifities of public broadcasters' online activities to their historical, political and cultural development. The comprehrensiveness of her theoretical and empirical endeavours, while sometimes perhaps somewhat frustrating to those media policy scholars that look for the 'nitty-gritty' details of legal arrangements, is impressive and shows us a bigger picture that merits more scientific attention in the future." - Karen Donders, International Journal of Digital Television,

Authors and Affiliations

The University of Sydney, Australia

Benedetta Brevini

About the author

Benedetta Brevini is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Sydney, Australia. Previous academics appointments include lectureships at City University and Brunel University in London, UK. A media reformer and journalist, Dr Brevini has been
working in Milan, New York and London for CNBC and RAI. Her co-edited book, Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism & Society, was published in March 2013.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Public Service Broadcasting Online
Book Subtitle: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0
Authors: Benedetta Brevini
Series Title: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295101
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29509-5Published: 27 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45173-9Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29510-1Published: 27 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2634-6192
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6206
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 200
Topics: Media Studies, Screen Studies, Media and Communication, Cultural Studies, Media Research, Computers and Society

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