British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy
Simon Dawes
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Hardback. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSB; HBJD1; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point. Unlike most books on broadcasting, this text adopts an explicitly Foucauldian and genealogical perspective in its account of media history and power, and unpicks how the meanings of terms such as 'public service' and 'public interest', as well as 'competition' and 'choice', have evolved over time. In considering the appropriation by broadcasting scholars of concepts such as ... Read more
This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point. Unlike most books on broadcasting, this text adopts an explicitly Foucauldian and genealogical perspective in its account of media history and power, and unpicks how the meanings of terms such as 'public service' and 'public interest', as well as 'competition' and 'choice', have evolved over time. In considering the appropriation by broadcasting scholars of concepts such as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319500966
SKU
V9783319500966
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Ref
99-15
About Simon Dawes
Simon Dawes is Maître de Conférences at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France.
Reviews for British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy
“Dawes offers his monograph as a ‘supplement to the more traditional histories of broadcasting regulation’ ... . This is a study that offers the critical tools to make a sustained and detailed analysis of media policy and regulation rather than provide that analysis itself. … for those engaged in thinking about the role of PSB and of the issues and ... Read more