RT Journal Article
T1 Politicisation Persists and Is Increasing in European Public Service Media in the Digital Society
A1 Fernández Lombao, Tania
A1 Blasco Blasco, Olga
A1 Campos Freire, Francisco
K1 European Union
K1 Funding systems
K1 Media regulation
K1 Media systems
K1 Politicisation
K1 Public service media
AB The open conclusions with which Hallin and Mancini (2004, 2011) approached their comparative study of Western media systems, initiated in 1998, retain their empirical, revisionist, and prospective value—even from critical perspectives—after a quarter of a century of profound historical, social, and technological changes. The names given to the three traditional media models in those authors’ first publication are used in this article to compare the evolution of funding, audience shares, governance, structure, and political intervention in European countries’ public service media on the one hand, and to contrast the operational hypothesis that politicisation persists and is increasing in European public service media in their adaptation to the digital society, on the other hand. Based on the variables from Hallin and Mancini’s empirical model, five crucial questions about the evolution of public service media in the EU are addressed: intervention and development of regulation by states and by the European Commission in the area of shared powers; a comparative analysis of the funding systems and consumer audiences of each European country’s public service media; the changes in the governance and management structures of said public service media; the variation in the professional culture and the rational-legal authority of their organisations; and the evolution and legitimation of public service media’s public value in the internet society, as well as the persistence or mutability of the national media systems’ fit within Hallin and Mancini’s three original models.
PB Cogitatio Press
SN 2183-2439
YR 2024
FD 2024-03-19
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33367
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33367
LA eng
NO Media and Communication 2024, Volume 12, Article 7759
NO This article is part of the activities of the research project Public Service Media in the Face of the PlatformEcosystem: Public Value Management and Evaluation Models Relevant for Spain (PID2021–122386OBI00),funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Spanish State Research Agency, and theEuropean Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026