Southern Africa: African Commission Calls for Guidelines to Adapt African Media Policy to Digital Era: [MISA] The Commission's resolution highlights the pressing need to update African media policy for the digital age. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJdbDW #MediaPolicy #DigitalEra #AfricanCommission #SouthernAfrica #MediaGuidelines
#MediaPolicy
How has the concept of ‘audience’ shaped the way we engage with media? Are we passive viewers, active participants, or something in between? As media shifts, does regulation need to rethink how it defines and includes the public? #MediaPolicy #PublicEngagement
How can media policy support sustainability, diversity, and public interest in a digital age? The Irish Future of Media Commission tackled these challenges—what lessons can the UK take from it? #MediaPolicy #CommunityMedia
👂 Hörempfehlung! Die aktuelle Ausgabe des österreichischen Medienmagazins #Doublecheck auf #Ö1
Die geleakten Papiere der blau-schwarzen Koalitionsverhandlungen offenbaren die geplanten Massnahmen gegen die öffentlich-rechtlichen #Medien und den #Journalismus in #Österreich
Laut den Plänen hätten "parteipolitische Medienkanäle staatliche Medienförderung bekommen sollen & Schwächung des Investigativjournalismus durch das Zitierverbot".
How can community media reclaim its role in fostering civic engagement and local representation when regulation and funding structures continue to prioritise commercial viability over social gain? Read more on the challenges and potential solutions #CommunityMedia #MediaPolicy
How can Ofcom open AM & FM licensing while supporting SSDAB and ensuring efficient spectrum use? A balanced approach could boost local media, support devolution, and counter misinformation. What role should community radio play in the UK's media future? #MediaPolicy
Who benefits from the changes in the Community Radio Order 2025? As analogue licences extend indefinitely and income caps are removed, are we balancing financial sustainability with fairness and innovation? Read more about the challenges and opportunities: #CommunityRadio #MediaPolicy
https://decentred.co.uk/community-radio-order-2025-analysis/
BIG TECH MUST GO - Martin Andree
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/7a17c9f1-88ec-4346-8f2c-1c623e78a3ff
Should the UK government rethink its digital switchover plans for radio? Our latest blog explores why FM and AM remain vital for audiences and how a more balanced approach to licensing could foster innovation #Radio #MediaPolicy
https://decentred.co.uk/come-on-dcms-its-time-to-abandon-digital-switchover-for-radio/
Is it time for the UK government to invest in community media? Our latest post discusses why the often-overlooked 'mezzo' media sector needs support to build trusted, accountable, and locally focused media. #CommunityMedia #PublicService #MediaPolicy #renewfromthemiddle
Has the decline in community radio eroded the transformative potential it once had? What impact has the reduction in Key Commitments had on local voices and social cohesion? Read more on how we’re squandering a legacy of grassroots media in our latest post. #CommunityRadio #MediaPolicy #DCMS #ofcom
https://decentred.co.uk/community-radio-a-squandered-inheritance/
Check out our latest blog post on the impact of zero-sum thinking on social cohesion. Discover how media policies and community media can foster cooperation and mutual benefit. #SocialCohesion #MediaPolicy #CommunityMedia
https://decentred.co.uk/community-media-social-cohesion-and-zero-sum-thinking/
#MediaPolicy #CommunicationGovernance #TechnologyPolicy #MediaStudies: "The Global Media Policy Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of Global Communication Governance at the crossroads, the 20th title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Edited by Claudia Padovani, Véronique Wavre, Arne Hintz, Gerard Goggin and Petros Iosifidis.
The collection celebrates 20+ years of activity of the Working Group on Global Media Policy, addressing current challenges, trends and transformations in global communication governance. Exploring changes in the actors, issues, values and contexts of media and communications, it investigates the crossroads that media policy is facing and offers visions for the future. A diverse range of scholars and expert practitioners discuss what regulatory reforms and governing mechanisms are required to advance democratic participation and fundamental rights in platform societies.
Organized around five sections, the volume considers the geopolitics of emerging communication orders; the changing roles of actors and stakeholders; the challenge of embedding rights and values in regulatory arrangements; the intersection of technology and policy; and the need to rethink epistemologies and methodologies for researching this field.
Contributions from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds include provocative think pieces and longer analyses. All chapters are grounded in historically-aware understandings of contemporary transformations, while anticipating dynamics of our communication futures."
https://iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-book-series/padovani-et-al-2023
#Media #MediaPolicy #Journalism #News #PublicService #MarketFailure: "Amid the retreat of local journalism and the resulting emergence of “news deserts,” where communities lack authentic and civically accountable sources of news, it is important to not only seek new revenue streams for news organizations but also to consider how financial resources and institutional structures secure journalistic autonomy and an abiding dedication to public service. Surveying initiatives to bolster local reporting in multiple countries, this study finds that such efforts frequently rest on an unstated optimism that market failures can be corrected and that new, sustainable business models ultimately will solve the journalism crisis. In contrast to these stopgap interventions, initiatives based on public service media principles found in the world's healthiest democracies—such as providing information across all social groups and fostering civic engagement—are better positioned to rebuild local systems in which news media are structured as enduring social institutions with crucial roles to play in democratic processes."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2253928
👇🇨🇦Whats good for the goose is NOT good for the gander #CONservatives #PeePee
"Conservatives ran on similar media policy as Liberals, but now claim it's censorship" #MediaPolicy
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/conservatives-ran-on-similar-media-policy-as-liberals-but-now-claim-it-s-censorship-1.6504343
EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy
EU lawmakers call to speed up audiovisual media directive enforcement https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/eu-lawmakers-call-to-speed-up-audiovisual-media-directive-enforcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AudiovisualMediaServiceDirective #audiovisualpolicy #mediapolicy
#USA #Journalism #News #LocalNews #Newspapers #Media #MediaPolicy: "This paper plays out against a backdrop of continued closures and diminished local news reporting across much of the United States. It explores the role that media policy can and should play in supporting local journalism.
In examining this topic, we investigate three fundamental questions:
What is local media policy?
What are the key existential issues and/or problems local media policy must wrestle with?
What potential solutions to the local news crisis can media policy potentially help address?
The core of our response to these questions is derived from a series of five public webinars hosted by the Tow Center. Through these events, we invited a range of industry and academic experts to share their perspectives on areas related to these major themes.
Our conversations explored the scope of media policy, barriers to implementation, opportunities for policy to make a difference, and some of the unique characteristics that shape U.S. media policy and attitudes toward potential policy interventions.
To this, we have added further context and updates on some of the latest policy developments, based on a literature review and our continued interest in this subject."
Hello world!
* #Introduction in my new #Mastodon home, as I've just changed instance (& for new folks around!)
I'm a 🇧🇷 researcher in #MediaPolicy & #MediaEconomics at the University of Salzburg 🇦🇹.
I'm interested in media/tech structure (ownership, economics, governance) & political theory.
My current big project is the management of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor, which will be released in Jan (www.media-ownership.eu).
I'm a proud dad & I like to play heavy metal 🎸 in the free time 😊
Less than one week to apply! #academics #PhD #commodon #MediaPolicy #MediaEconomics
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