The Values of Public Service Media in the Internet Society

This book provides a global overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by Public Service Media (PSM) organizations, including the increasing power of digital platforms, changing consumption habits, and reforms on funding models. In order to survive in the new, transforming media ecosystem, PSM organizations need to retain their core values whilst also embracing new values stemming from society’s increasingly complex communication needs and value systems. The contributions of 40 authors from three continents are grouped into three areas in which PSM organizations can create value: innovation, governance and relation to the market, and democratic reinforcement. The book illustrates how PSM can create value for different stakeholders, in different contexts, and through different methods. Contributing to a better understanding of the role of PSM in current media systems, PSM is shown as a key agent for the development of the public sphere and democratic societies.

1. Introduction. The Value(s) of Public Service Media in the Internet Society.- 2. What have we learned about Public Service Broadcasting in the world? Main research topics and suggestions for the future.- 3. Public Service Media (PSM) in the age of platformization of culture and society.- 4. Can automated strategies work for PSM in a network society? Engaging digital intermediation for informed citizenry.- 5. Are Public Service Media Necessary in the Transmedia Era?.- 6. Public Service Media and Blockchain Technology. First Thoughts.- 7. Analysis of the quality of the websites of regional public television networks in the European Union. Comparative study between Spain, Germany and Belgium.- 8. The governance of public service media for the Internet society.- 9. Canadian Communication Policies in the Post-Netflix Era.- 10. Public Service Media Interventions: risk and the market.- 11. Media and the Internet Access Providers inan era of convergence .- 12. Media Capture and Its Contexts: Developing a Comparative Framework for Public Service Media.- 13. The challenge of Media and Information Literacy for Public Media Services.- 14. Electoral debates in television and democratic quality: value indicators.- 15. Trends on the relationship between Public Service Media organizations and their audiences.- 16. State media and digital citizenship in Latin America: Is there a place for the weak?.

Miguel Túñez-López is Professor at the Department of the Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

 Francisco Campos-Freire is Professor of Journalism in the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

 Marta Rodríguez-Castro is a PhD candidate at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.