Farell Lowe, G., Van den Bulck, H. and Donders, K. (eds.) Public Service Media in the Networked Society. Göteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, 2018

Abstract

Este libro recopila artículos y capítulos del congreso internacional RIPE@2017 (Reinvigorating the Public Media Enterprise). El lector se aproxima al paradigma de una sociedad conectada en redes (Castells, 1996) y los medios de servicio público en Europa. El objetivo principal es clarificar y criticar el concepto de la sociedad en red, relacionandolo con el interés público que los medios públicos encarnan.

This book is a compilation of articles and chapters for RIPE 2017. RIPE is an acronym of Re-Visionary Interpretations of the Public Enterprise. It is a reader that tackles upon the paradigm of a networked society (Castells, 1996) and public service media in wider Europe. Edited by Gregory Fenell Lower, Hilde van den Bulck and Karen Donders, the book is published by Nordicom , a research group on Nordic media based at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The blurb gives a summary of the main objective: to clarify and critique the concept of networked society in relation to the public interest that public media embody. Networked communications offer benefits but present obvious problems for universal access and public service. These potential issues entail threats to individual’s freedom to activate or link into a network, or vulnerability to hacking and geo-blocking. The chapters prioritise the public interest over other benefits by examining the role of public media organizations within the framework of networked communications.