Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web de Maureen Burns

Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web

Maureen Burns

Niels Brügger

What does it mean to be a national broadcaster in a global communications environment? What are the commercial and public service pressures that were brought to bear when public service broadcasters implemented web services? How did one-to-many broadcasters adapt to the many-to-many medium of the internet? This title deals with these questions.

Citește tot Restrânge

Notă biografică

Maureen Burns is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies and convenes the media studies major at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her previous book ABC Online: Becoming the ABC detailed a history of the first five years of online services at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Niels Brügger is Associate Professor and Head of The Centre for Internet Research at Aarhus University, Denmark. His primary research interest is web history, and he is writing a history of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's website dr.dk. His latest edited book, Web History (Peter Lang, 2010), puts the emerging field of web history on the agenda of internet research.

Cuprins

Contents: Nicholas W. Jankowski: Foreword: Public Service Broadcasters and the Web: Interplay of Convenience, Necessity, and Challenge ¿ Maureen Burns/Niels Brügger: Introduction: Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web: Thematic Concerns ¿ An Nguyen/Alberto García: When Public Service Is the Name of the Game: The Evolution of British and Spanish Public Service Broadcasters in Online Journalism ¿ Einar Thorsen: The Second Digital Wave: BBC News Online, Embedded Video and the iPlayer ¿ Nikki Usher/Patricia Riley/Vikki Porter: NPR Online: Public Service Communication at the Center of National Public Radio ¿ Maureen Burns: Protecting the Brand: A History of ABC Online News-as-Commodity ¿ Kenneth Murphy: RTE Online: Public Objectives and Commercial Imperatives ¿ Hallvard Moe: Between Public Service and Commercial Venture: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation on the Web 1994-2000 ¿ Niels Brügger: The Idea of Public Service in the Early History of DR Online ¿ Amit M. Schejter/Merav Katz-Kimchi: « . . . [and] They Formed Themselves into a Single Unit»: The Development of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority Website ¿ Benedetta Brevini: Southern European Public Service Broadcasters Expanding Online: A Policy Study of RAI and RTVE¿s Online Activities ¿ Meghan Grosse/David W. Park: Public Media and the Web in the U.S.: The Case of Vocalo ¿ Anne Dunn: Regional Radio and Online Media Production: An Australian Broadcasting Corporation Case Study ¿ Brian O¿Neill/Michael J. Murphy: Canadian Content, Public Broadcasting and the Internet: CBC¿s Online Strategy 1995-2000 ¿ Fiona Martin: Vox Populi, Vox Dei: ABC Online and the Risks of Dialogic Interaction ¿ Anja Bechmann: User Participation at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation 1998-2010: Changing Patterns ¿ Shawn Powers: From Broadcast to Networked Journalism: The Case of Al-Jazeera English.