Van Dijck and T. Poell, ‘Making Public Television Social? Public Service Broadcasting and the Challenges of Social Media’, Television & New Media, 2015, Vol.16(2), pp.148-164
This article investigates how the rise of social media affects European public service broadcasting (PSB), particularly in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.
social media platforms have gradually infiltrated all segments of everyday life—from making friends to debating politics—and have impacted the fabric of social institutions—from law enforcement to journalism. Particularly in the field of television, platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube affect both the social practice of television and its cultural form, while also disrupting broadcaster’s conventional production and distribution logistics
PSB’s mission has always been to produce television as a form of speaking to, and engaging with, viewers as citizens. The institutional space granted to public 150 Television & New Media 16(2) broadcasting systems in most European countries came with the obligation to inform, educate, and entertain diverse audiences and involve them in public debates. Public television prioritized participation over consumption long before the emergence of Web 2.0
Dias, M.Arnold , M.Gibbs, B. Nansen & R. Wilken, Asynchronous speeds: Disentangling the discourse of ‘high-speed broadband in relation to Australia’s national broadband network’, Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, Jun 2014, Issue 151, p.117-126
This article analyses the substantive problems related to the term ‘high-speed broadband’ in relation to the implementation of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN). It argues that an understanding of speed in relation to broadband must take into account a complex assemblage of infrastructure networks, communication devices, software, location, user subjectivity and political input.
the user experience of high-speed broadband, rather than simply an
experience of speed, is intrinsically related to a ‘changing media ecology’, where ‘highspeed broadband [is] examined as part of the domestic technological environment as a whole, rather than focusing on discrete technologies or applications’ (Nansen et al., 2013: 5). This involves acknowledging that any desire by users for a faster connection will be directly related to how such connection might fit into the current media ecology of the household, as we outline later in our analysis of the media assemblage of highspeed broadband.
There is much to be said about the manifold issues surrounding the implementation of the NBN and its several political and financial issues
This article argues that the technical, social and political intricacies of
Australia’s high-speed broadband project cannot easily be separated or over-simplified.
