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Public service media and digital innovation: The small nation experience
Centre for Media and Culture in Small Nations, University of South Wales, UK.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2190-1989
School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0202-7728
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2018 (English)In: Public Service Media in the Networked Society: RIPE@2017 / [ed] Lowe, Gregory Ferrell, Hilde Van den Bulck, & Karen Donders, Gothenburg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg , 2018, p. 159-174Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This chapter identifies asymmetries of power in the network society and analyses the place of public service media therein. In doing so, we draw upon two bodies of literature – theoretical considerations of small nations, and minority-language media studies – which rarely inform international debates about the digital horizons of public service media. Through critical discussion of some of the digital myths that circulate in industry and academic discourse, we argue for greater attention to how the inequalities of global power that characterise the network society are negotiated. Using empirical research on and with TG4, the Irish language broadcaster and S4C, the Welsh language broadcaster, we demonstrate how digital platforms can, and already do, help achieve objectives that are core to public service broadcasting’s public purpose. However, significant structural issues remain which require careful intervention from policy-makers to ensure linguistic vibrancy and media plurality.

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Gothenburg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg , 2018. p. 159-174
Keywords [en]
digital media discourse, minority language, social media, media policy, broadcasting, Wales
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Media and Communications
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Media
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URN: urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-11773Libris ID: 22547476ISBN: 978-91-87957-73-4 ISBN: 978-91-87957-74-1 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:norden-11773DiVA, id: diva2:1535649
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