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Public Service Broadcasting and Media Systems in Troubled European Democracies

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers a thorough examination of the current concepts and conditions that influence PSM in Europe

  • Provides a comparative study of Public Service Media (PSM) in Western, Southern and Central Europe including France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Greece, the Balkans, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey

  • Gives an insight in the role of the European Union in preserving the European tradition of independence and neutrality of public service media

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Eva Połońska, Charlie Beckett
    Pages 1-20
  3. Public Service Media in Troubled Democracies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
  4. Western Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Public Service Media in France

      • Raymond Kuhn
      Pages 69-87
  5. Southern Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. PSM in Italy: Troubled RAI in a Troubled Country

      • Alessandro D’Arma
      Pages 111-128
    3. Greek ERT: State or Public Service Broadcaster?

      • Petros Iosifidis, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
      Pages 129-153
  6. Central and Eastern Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
  7. Media Systems in Troubled Democracies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
    2. How the Media Systems Work in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska
      Pages 259-278

About this book

This book provides the most recent overview of media systems in Europe. It explores new political, economic and technological environments and the challenges they pose to democracies and informed citizens. It also examines the new illiberal environment that has quickly embraced certain European states and its impact on media systems, considering the sources and possible consequences of these challenges for media industries and media professionals.

Part I examines the evolving role of public service media in a comparative study of Western, Southern and Central Europe, whilst Part II ventures into Europe’s periphery, where media continues to be utilised by the state in its quest for power. The book also provides an insight into the role of the European Union in preserving the independence and neutrality of public service media. It will be useful to students and researchers of political communication and international and comparative media, as well as democracy and populism.

 



Reviews

“Media freedom, already endangered by technological changes, takes centre stage in democracy’s fight for survival just three decades after its sweeping post-Cold War victories worldwide. In this new era, troubled democracies across the world are led by autocrats who seek to capture the media. This volume is crucial in holding a mirror to all of the methods they use to annihilate informed choice, install self-censorship and suffocate the media.” (Miklós Haraszti, Central European University, Hungary)

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • LSE, London, UK

    Eva Połońska

  • Department of Media and Communications, LSE, London, UK

    Charlie Beckett

About the editors

Eva Połońska is a Research Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Charlie Beckett is the founding director of POLIS, UK, the think-tank for research and debate in international journalism and society. He was a programme editor at ITN's Channel 4 News and a senior producer and programme editor at BBC News and Current affairs for ten years.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Service Broadcasting and Media Systems in Troubled European Democracies

  • Editors: Eva Połońska, Charlie Beckett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02710-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02709-4Published: 13 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02710-0Published: 14 January 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 408

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Journalism, European Politics, Media and Communication

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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