The aim of this Working Group is to examine and make inventories of new performance practices and accountability mechanisms for public service media in different countries, inside and outside Europe and to investigate how they work and what can be learned from them.
Co-chair: Fiona Martin (University of Sydney, Australia) [Contact]
Co-chair: Anis Rahman (University of Washington, USA) [Contact]
Vice-chair: Yik-Chan Chin (Beijing Normal University, China) [Contact]
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This Working Group is concerned with the performance practices and accountability mechanisms for public broadcasters and the extent to which governments need to intervene in the media market to correct market failures and to guarantee broadcasting as a public merit good. Its members are interested in whether there is a need for a new policy paradigm for public service broadcasting and alternative ways of assessing and measuring public service media’s value to the public.
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IAMCR's Public Service Media Policies Working Group invites proposals for IAMCR 2023, to be held in Lyon, France, from 9 to 13 July (Lyon23) with an Online Conference Papers (OCP23) component from 26 June to 5 July. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2023, at 23.59 UTC.
IAMCR's Public Service Media Policies Working Group invites participants to an IAMCR 2022 pre-conference, 'Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications' to be held online on Friday, 8 July 2022 09:00 - 17:00 China time (01:00 - 09:00 UTC).
IAMCR's Public Service Media Policies Working Group invites the submission of proposals for papers and panels for IAMCR 2022, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July 2022. The conference will also have a national hub at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
The Public Service Media Policies Working Group (PSM) will be holding online elections for two co-Chair and one Vice-chair positions, for the term 2021 - 2025. The deadline to submit candidacies is 16 May.
IAMCR's Public Service Media Policies Working Group invites the submission of proposals for single papers and multi-paper sessions (the online conference equivalent of a panel in a face to face conference) for IAMCR 2021, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July, with a regional hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.
The Public Service Media Policies Working Group recently issued a newsletter with information of interest to its members, including recent publications, the IAMCR 2020 online conference and forthcoming events.
A special issue of Interactions Journal that originated from a post-conference held at the 2018 annual conference of IAMCR held in Eugene, Oregon is now available. The issue is guest-edited by Alessandro D’Arma and Yik Chan Chin (chairs of the PSM Working Group), and Minna Horowitz (International Network of PSM Experts).
This message from the heads of the Public Service Media Policies Working Group was distributed to all the working group members on 6 May 2020.
IAMCR's Public Service Media Policies Working Group invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for the 2020 conference of the Association, which will be held from 12 to 16 July, 2020 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
The Public Service Media Policies Working Group organised an IAMCR post-conference, “Public Service Media in a Time of Global Reordering: Sustainability, Reinvention and Extension”, on 25 June 2018 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The post-conference was organised in collaboration with the Global PSM Experts Network.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 20-24 June 2018 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will hold its annual conference from 16-20 July, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The IAMCR Working Group for Public Service Media Policies (PSMP) is looking for candidates to (co)chair its future activities.
The Public Service Media Policies Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions for its open sessions at the 2016 IAMCR annual conference which will take place in Leicester from 27 to 31 July 2016
The Public Service Media Policies Working Group invites submissions for its open sessions at the IAMCR annual conference that will be held at Montreal, Canada July 12-16, 2015.
Established public media provisions are under threat: both public service broadcasting and professional journalism are severely challenged by new technologies and increasing competition in market-based media ecologies. At the same time the new cyberspace promises unprecedented new informative and participatory opportunities for citizens and civil society, independent from the powers that be, although new corporate power positions are becoming more prominent. In addition to new technologies that break down the barriers of distance and time, changing global power relations and news flows are also challenging existing borders between nations and regions.
The Public Service Media Policy Group invites submissions for its sessions at IAMCR annual conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland from 25-29 June 2013. The section seeks research that balances theory and practice, and aims at assessing the public value dimension in a global communications context. We welcome contributions exploring how public service media are coping with both the current economic crisis and technological transformations in the media landscape, by challenging, changing or re-affirming the ‘public interest’ or ‘public service’ roles and orientations of the media.
The Working Group on Public Service Media Policies of the International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions for the IAMCR Conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.
The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
29th Annual Research Conference
Istanbul, Turkey - July 13-17, 2011
Creating Public Value: For whom?
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change
28th Annual Research Conference
Braga, Portugal - July 18-22, 2010
Serving the Citizen - Public Service Broadcasting and Civil Society
Call for Papers
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!
Convenor: Jo Bardoel, ASCoR, University of Amsterdam / Radboud University Nijmegen
The Working Group on European Public Broadcasting Policies invites submissions
to the IAMCR 2008 Congress.
Already for some time now public service broadcasters in Europe and elsewhere are prominently present in the domain of new media. This presence in the digital domain is usually considered as a logical extension of the public remit and is also related to a long-standing tradition of being leading in the introduction of new technologies. At the same time there are also serious restrictions. Due to complaints of commercial competitors at a national and European policy level, public broadcasters are forced to show more explicitly the relation between their new activities in new media services and their contribution to the public value. Moreover, the lack of financial resources often limits the public presence in the digital domain.