Tag: public service broadcasting

• BBC Three launched in 2003. That’s before the iPhone, Facebook, SBTV, Netflix, Snapchat, driverless cars and a man jumping from space. The world’s changed and what millennials and Generation Z want and expect from the BBC has changed. To meet their needs as licence fee payers we must offer them a service and content they…

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  10/12/2014

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  millennials, public service broadcasting, social media, tv, Video

• Pulling advertisements is an age-old tactic for businesses facing media criticism to seek retribution. But in the case of PBS, which exists in part as a way to limit commercial influence on educational television, doing so just feeds into writer Eugenia Williamson’s thesis — that the idealistic, Great Society-era initiative often behaves more like a…

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  23/10/2014

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  Advertising, pbs, public service broadcasting, publishing, soft censorship, usa

• This book is the result of three conferences held in Uruguay, Paraguay, and El Salvador, to discuss the role of public television in Latin America. The role of public media is making a major readjustment. Worldwide, there is reflection on what should take place in the pluralistic media system that a democratic society must build…

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  08/04/2014

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  conference, democracy, journalism, Latin America, Public Media, public service broadcasting, research

• “Counting What Counts” – Nesta on Big Data in the arts and cultural sectors

  In this excellent February 2013 paper for Nesta, Counting What Counts, Anthony Lilley, never one to mince his words, pushes the arts and cultural sector (public service broadcasting included) to embrace the opportunity of Big Data: There are some fundamental barriers to the use of big data approaches in arts and cultural institutions. The first…

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  31/05/2013

  Research & Evidence

  culture, data, funding, investment, mediapolicy.org, public service broadcasting, resilience

• Digital technologies have profoundly changed the media landscape. In particular due to the now ubiquitous Internet, we have observed in recent years unparalleled abundance and diversity of content and of platforms where content can be shared and accessed (Facebook, Wikipedia or blogs, spring quickly to mind). These modifications have however not stopped at simply multiplying…

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  31/05/2013

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  digital media, media transformation, public service broadcasting, research, switzerland