Possibilities for Securing the Public Service Internally and Externally
In the face of social changes, the question as to the securing of channels which maintain, alongside the purely commercial feedback (“quotas”), production in broadcasting sensitive to social demands, is one closely linked with that as to the future of “Public Service”. The topic shapes the research of the Institute in individual projects, but it also constantly runs parallel to them as an independent question. Currently involved in it are considerations on models aiming to strengthen the corpus of public institutions or to seek additions to them.
Publications
Schulz, W. (2008): Der Programmauftrag als Prozess seiner Begründung: Vorschläge zu Verfahren und Organisation des “Drei-Stufen-Tests” zur Selbstkonkretisierung des Funktionsauftrags öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunkanstalten [The Public Service Broadcasting Mandate seen as the Process of its Justification: some Suggestions on the Implementation of the Three Step Test to make the Remit of Public Service Broadcasters in Germany more precise]. Berlin (download as pdf-file).
Schulz, W. (2008): Freiraum gestalten: Vorschläge zur Organisation des “Drei- Stufen- Tests” [Shaping free Space: Suggestions for organising the “Three Step Test”], epd medien, No. 9, pp. 3-10.
Hasebrink, U. (2007): “Public Value”: Leitbegriff oder Nebelkerze in der Diskussion um den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk? [Public Value: Core Concept or Smokescreen in the Discussion on Public Broadcasting]. In: Rundfunk und Geschichte, vol. 33, no. 1-2, pp. 38-42.
Lectures
“Offene Flanken des zweiten Rundfunkgebührenurteils” [Open Flanks of the Second Judgement on Broadcasting Fees], participation of W. Schulz in in panel discussion at the "Medientreffpunkt Mitteldeutschland" [Media Meeting Central Germany] in Leipzig on 6 May 2008.
“The Frameworks of Public Service Broadcasting: Citizenship and Accountability”, lecture by U. Hasebrink at the EURALVA/SLS conference “Broadcasters and Citizens” in Copenhagen on 9 October 2007.
„Accountability of Broadcasters. Current Issues of European Public Service Broadcasting“, lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Public Service Broadcasting Workshop hosted by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) in London on 9 March 2007.
“Public Value – im Dienst der Bürger. Der Beitrag des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks zur gesellschaftlichen Wertschöpfung in Europa” [Public Value – at the Service of the Citizen. The Contribution of Public Broadcasting to the Formation of Public Values in Europe), lecture by U. Hasebrink at the Münchener Medientage [Media Days] on 18 October 2006.
„Gremien – gesellschaftliche Kontrolleure mit Biss?“ [Committees – Public Watchdogs with Teeth?], participation by U. Hasbrink in a podium discussion in the context of the conference „50 Years of the Broadcasting Council –dedicated to the Public“ of the WDR Broadcasting, 2. March 2005 in Düsseldorf.
„Public Broadcasting in the Information Society“, hearing with U.Hasebrink in the context of the eponymous expert group of the European Council , 2./3. May 2005 in Strasbourg.
„Public Service Broadcasters and strategies for democratic participation”, hearing with W. Schulz in the context of the hearing of the European Council on strategies of Public Service Broadcsting in the information society. 3. November 2005 in Strasbourg.
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