Reinventing Public Service Communication (PDF)

CAROLE TONGUE is Chair of the UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity and Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London, UK
KAROL JAKUBOWICZ is a member of the Council of the Independent Media Commission in Kosovo, and of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme
MARIA MICHALIS is Principal Lecturer in Communication, Communication Policy, and Global Media at the University of Westminster, UK
MARK WHEELER is Reader in Politics in the Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University, UK
BARBARA THOMASS is Professor of International Comparison of Media Systems at the Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany
FARREL CORCORAN is Professor of Communication at Dublin City University, Ireland
KATHARINE SARIKAKIS is Senior Lecturer in Communications Policy and Director of the Centre for International Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK
JEAN K. CHALABY is Reader at the Department of Sociology, City University London, UK
ALESSANDRO D'ARMA is Lecturer in Media Industry and Policy at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Westminster, UK
JEANETTE STEEMERS is Professor of Media and Communications at the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, UK
GREGORY FERRELL LOWE is Professor of Media Management at the University of Tampere, Finland
TEEMU PALOKANGAS is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland
JEREMY TUNSTALL is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at City University London, UK
RAYMOND KUHN is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK
RUNAR WOLDT is a journalist writing for 'Media Perspektiven' in Frankfurt, Germany
CINZIA PADOVANI is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
BIENVENIDO LEÓN is Associate

'This book should be read by all people who are concerned about the democratic quality of modern societies.

It raises the crucial question of how to secure the provision of information and entertainment through multiple public-service platforms. Strongly recommended!'

- Professor Dr Cees J. Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, Holland

'This well-designed collection of brilliant, informative, and generally supportive analyses of European public TV is important reading for anyone interested in the present of these central institutions and their rocky transition to a broader set of digital public service media.'

- Professor Eli Noam, Columbia University, USA

'A very timely and extremely valuable collection of essays on public service media in a digital age. Highly commendable.'

- Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK

'Reinventing Public Service Communication is an expansive collection, amounting to a critical and realistic defence of public service responsibilities across media. Any scholar with even the slightest interest in the area should look at the book, and anyone including public service communication within their research or teaching portfolio will find Petros Iosifidis's collection indispensible.'

- Michael Higgins, European Journal of Communication