[Air-L] Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and Corona. A talk by Graham Murdock, hosted and organised by InnoPSM

[Christian Fuchs]

Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and 
Corona. A talk by Graham Murdock, hosted and organised by InnoPSM
Mon, 15 February 2021, 16:00 British Time, 17:00 CET

Where? Zoom

Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-service-media-in-challenging-times-connectivity-climate-and-corona-tickets-137997106059

Participants will receive Zoom access data at latest one day in advance 
of the meeting.

In this talk, Prof Graham Murdock will analyse public service media in 
the challenging times we live in.

The institutions and animating ideals of public service broadcasting 
have been under continuous pressure for the last four decades. Advocates 
of marketisation have argued long and hard that they are no longer 
relevant or needed in a world of digital abundance and infinite choice, 
pointing to the increasing migration of young people to on-line 
platforms. These arguments continue to gain traction. A new proposal for 
an alternative future must place relations between broadcasting and the 
internet at the centre of argument. Discussions around how these 
relations might be organised has been underway for some time but recent 
developments have invested them with new relevance and urgency.

2020 was marked by a global pandemic, an accelerating climate crisis, 
and an explosion of direct action across the political spectrum. The 
processes driving these events are still unfolding presenting Public 
Service Media with both new challenges and new opportunities. The talk 
will open a conversation of how we might respond.

InnoPSM - Innovation in Public Service Media Policies is an AHRC 
research network that facilitates exchange between academic experts and 
key PSM stakeholders and develops a research agenda across national and 
disciplinary boundaries with a view to advancing our thinking about 
innovative policy solutions and strategies to respond to the major 
digital challenges confronting PSM. This talk is part of InnoPSM’s focus 
on Envisioning Public Service Media Utopias.