Public Broadcasting Research Articles

The role of the media in security strategies (on the example of Bayelsa State, Nigeria)

Mass media as an important element of mass communication influence the formation of public opinion, the perception of security challenges in society. In an effort to fulfil its statutory role of informing the people, the radio media reports security issues so as to arm residents with the needed information. To this end, this study investigated the public perception of radio reports on security issues in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Agenda-setting and perception theories served as the theoretical foundation of the study. A mixed-methods research design was employed. From the population of 2,277,961, a sample size of 384 was drawn for the study using the Wimmer and Dominick online sample size calculator. Meanwhile, a qualitative population was drawn from security operatives within the state as well as staff from the two private radio stations and two public radio stations. Questionnaire and interview guide were used as the instruments for data collection. Multistage and purposive sampling techniques were used in the study. Findings revealed that, on average, 62% of Bayelsa residents are exposed to radio reports on security issues within the state to a large extent. The qualitative data revealed similar findings. Further findings revealed that, at an average mean score of 3.1 (N = 377), respondents have positive perceptions. They are of the view that radio reports on security issues are objective. Also, the qualitative findings are in tandem with the quantitative findings.

Value for Money to Measure Performance of Public Broadcasting Programs at Radio Republik Indonesia Semarang: Evidence From Indonesia

Abstract This study focuses on using value for money to measure the performance of the Public Broadcasting Programs at Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Semarang, the national radio station. Objective: This study aims to identify the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of the Public Broadcasting Programs at RRI Semarang (LPP RRI) based on the value-for-money ratio from 2018 to 2022. Method: This study used a qualitative descriptive method. This study involved administration planners and implementers at LPP RRI Semarang as informants. Findings: Based on the concept of value for money, the Key Performance Indicators of the Public Broadcasting Program of LPP RRI Semarang showed that the budget used was economical, efficient, and effective. Implication Theory and Policy: LPP RRI Semarang needs to consider the results of this study for designing policies to improve their performance in using state budget (APBN) and transparency in budget use. Novelty: This study evaluates the Key Performance Index of LPP RRI Semarang to improve its public broadcasting performance. The study concerns the budget realization report to identify the budget management process for the public broadcasting program.

Attacken von rechts außen. Öffentlich-rechtliche Medien als Ziel populistischer Medienfeindlichkeit

Public service broadcasting in Europe is under pressure. Right-wing populist parties have a considerable share in this development. The article aims to show why public service broadcasting in particular is the target of populist criticism. The strategies used by populist actors to put public broadcasters under pressure can be derived from the antagonism cultivated between the populace and the elite. At the same time, they serve to avoid critical reporting and thus public scrutiny. The conclusion is that the attacks on the public service system should also be understood as an attack on the freedom of the media and their role in democracy.

The Traditional Beliefs Inhibiting Uptake of Education in Kajiado Community During the 21st Century

Are there particular cultures that are more adequate than others in the sense that they are perceived relevant during the 21st century of globalization? If so, which are the possible criteria to determine that certain cultures are adequate and have the power to change peoples’ identities? The study sought to address issues on traditional beliefs inhibiting uptake of education in Kajiado community during the 21st century. The objectives were to: establish cultural beliefs affecting education among the Kajiado community members and find out the youths’ attitude towards various cultural practices affecting their contemporary ways of life. The study used survey design with cluster random sampling yielding 90 participants who responded to questionnaires and interview schedules. Female genital mutilation (42%), early marriage (30%) and child labour (23%) were cited as the most retrogressive culture. The study concluded that sensitization of community members against negative cultural beliefs be done through public barazas, community-based organizations, churches, schools, local television and radio stations, socio media and print media platforms. It was recommended that Nyumba Kumi initiative monitor homes under their jurisdiction to prevent female genital mutilation practitioners and consumers of their services from taking place.

The Governance of the BBC

AbstractThe governance of the BBC has been a subject of political debate for the past two decades, which have brought two major upheavals in the corporation's governance structure. Yet, governance reform was not the best way to address the editorial and cultural crises that led to demands for change; and the current model is not adequate to protect licence fee payers’ interests and the BBC's independence, particularly in the context of continuing ideological assaults on public service broadcasting.

Integration durch Repräsentation? Die Rolle des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks für den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt

In view of a perceived crisis of legitimacy of public service broadcasting (PSB) and societal debates concerning its functional mandate, this article examines the integration mandate of PSB. It examines how the use of PSB is related to perceived representation and the subjective perception of social cohesion. The results indicate that a more intensive use of public service news services is associated with both a higher perception of representation and a more pronounced sense of community as an indicator of social cohesion. The findings thus underline the social importance of independent, diverse broadcasting.

A Battle for the Nation's Rights’? Past, Present and Future Public Service Media in Wales

AbstractAs in other UK nations, public service broadcasting (PSB) is facing an uncertain future in Wales as a result of threats to funding from government and competition from streaming services and other content providers. Partly because of this, calls for the devolution of broadcasting powers have intensified over the past couple of years to the point where it is now an aim of the Welsh government to see such powers being transferred to Cardiff from Westminster. In a nation of two languages and two cultures, PSB has played, and continues to play, a crucial role in Welsh life—but for how long?

Enabling Metaheuristics with Deep Learning based Resource Allocation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Wireless Networks

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network offers a variety of applications in public safety, disaster management, advertising and broadcasting, overload situation, etc. Due to the dynamic characteristics of MU, it is challenging to provide robust transmission services to mobile users (MU). Resource allocation (RA), including sub-channel, serving user, and transmit power, is a crucial problem; also, it is critical to enhance the coverage and energy efficiency of UAV-enabled communication protocol. Furthermore, system resources are limited (for example, spectrum, and transmission power) and UAV transmission coverage and on-board energy are limited. In order to meet the QoE of any user with limited UAV energy and limited resource system, we jointly enhance UAV trajectory, user communication scheduling, and bandwidth allocation and transmit power to satisfy user QoE requirements and increase energy efficiency. Thus, the study proposes a new mud ring optimization with deep belief network-based resource allocation scheme (MRODBN-RAS) technique for UAV-enabled wireless networks. The proposed MRODBN-RAS approach focuses on the effectual accomplishment of the computational and energy-effective decision. Besides, the MRODBN-RAS technique assumed the UAV as a learning agent by forming RA decisions as actions. In addition, the MRODBN-RAS technique designed a reward function to reduce the weighted resource utilization. The MRODBN-RAS technique uses DBN model with hyperparameter tuning using MRO algorithm to allocate the resources. The design of the MRO algorithm helps in the optimal selection of the hyperparameter related to the DBN model. The simulation results of the MRODBN-RAS method are examined under various measures. The extensive comparison study highlighted the better performance of the MRODBN-RAS approach over existing techniques.

Zurück in die Zukunft. Zwei Ansichten zu den Empfehlungen des Zukunftsrats

In January 2024, the Council for the Future presented its recommendations for the future development of public service broadcasting in Germany. What are the priorities and how should they proceed from here? In two articles, ZDF Director General Norbert Himmler and journalism professor Tanjev Schultz describe their views and proposed solutions.

Crossmediale Neuausrichtung des Südwestrundfunks. Change Management, Kommunikation und Weiterbildung im strategischen Unternehmenswandel

In the digital age public broadcasters must align their structures and content cross-medially. Whether they succeed in this cross-media transformation depends, among other things, on the success of their change management. How Südwestrundfunk (SWR) communicates cross-media change to its employees and which cross-media training courses exist at SWR is examined in this article using a multi-method design consisting of participatory editorial observations and expert interviews with managers from several hierarchical levels. The results show that SWR attaches great importance to transparency and offers its employees a broad repertoire of further training measures, such as traditional workshops, peer-to-peer training, and job rotation.

Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction

Social media became the predominant medium for communicating, sharing updates, and monitoring other users. However, due to increasing use of social media, individuals might feel availability pressure to be online and production pressure to post content, which might result in negative consequences. The present study aims to disentangle the relationships between active social media use (private interactions), active public social media use (broadcasting), and passive social media use (monitoring) in relation to digital pressure and life satisfaction. The results of a two-wave panel survey with N = 415 late adolescents and young adults ( Mage = 19.08, SD = 1.57, 58.31% female) reveal a longitudinal reciprocal relationship between active public use and production pressure. However, availability pressure positively predicts active social media use over time, suggesting increase in private interactions due to perceived peer’s expectations to be reachable over social media. In contrast, production pressure is related to lower active social media use, thus placing focus on active public broadcasting instead. Notwithstanding the reciprocal interplay between social media use and digital pressure, the present study does not demonstrate harmful consequences of digital pressure on life satisfaction.

Aesthetic Reconfigurations of the Political during the Pandemic: Group Representations in Covid19 Special Programmes on German Public Television

We analyse audiovisual media discourse on Covid-19 through the lens of the politicalin order to illustrate how discursive practices establish and reconfigure subject positionsand social orders in times of crisis. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s understanding of thepolitical, we suggest that these reconfigurations can either stabilise existing (political)communities and power relations, or intervene in what is perceived as ‘normal’.Analytically, we approach these (re)configurations on the level of media-aesthetics (thetangible), language (the utterable) and audiovisual representation (the visible) todemonstrate how a sense of commonality is produced or revised through artistic mediapractice (Richard Rorty).We demonstrate our argument by means of Covid-19 ‘special programmes’ onGerman public television, as they can be considered cultural practices of making situatedsense of a global crisis. By analysing the tangible, the utterable and the visible in thebroadcast from 13 December 2020, our illustrative analysis reveals a constant strugglebetween reconfigurations of the political and stabilisations of (a new) normalcy. Weconclude with a plea for including a media-aesthetic perspective into the analysis of Covid19 discourse as it opens up a more comprehensive (multimodal) idea and experientialdimension of the discursive construction of the pandemic.

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie (review)

ABSTRACT: Last summer, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville stirred controversy by insist ing that white nationalists were not racists but simply loyal American citizens like any other. In an interview on Alabama public radio about his opposition to the Pentagon's personnel policies, among them efforts to prevent white supremacists from serving in the armed forces, Tuberville claimed that the people the Biden administration maligned as "white nationalists" were simply "Americans" who "don't believe in [Biden's] agenda." Designating them as unfit for service, he argued, is a form of federal overreach—intruding in matters of identity and conscience over which the federal government has no rightful authority, and sowing weakness and division in the "strong, hard-nosed, killing machine" that is the U.S. military. "We cannot start putting rules in there for one type, one group and make different factions in the military," he said, "because that is the most important institution in the United States of America." Despite the efforts of his staff to convey that he had simply been misunderstood, Tuberville doubled down in a later interview: targeting white nationalists was part of a partisan, un-American agenda—an agenda that threatened to drive "most white people in this country out of the military."

Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie (review)

ABSTRACT: Last summer, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville stirred controversy by insist ing that white nationalists were not racists but simply loyal American citizens like any other. In an interview on Alabama public radio about his opposition to the Pentagon’s personnel policies, among them efforts to prevent white supremacists from serving in the armed forces, Tuberville claimed that the people the Biden administration maligned as “white nationalists” were simply “Americans” who “don’t believe in [Biden’s] agenda.” Designating them as unfit for service, he argued, is a form of federal overreach—intruding in matters of identity and conscience over which the federal government has no rightful authority, and sowing weakness and division in the “strong, hard-nosed, killing machine” that is the U.S. military. “We cannot start putting rules in there for one type, one group and make different factions in the military,” he said, “because that is the most important institution in the United States of America.” Despite the efforts of his staff to convey that he had simply been misunderstood, Tuberville doubled down in a later interview: targeting white nationalists was part of a partisan, un-American agenda—an agenda that threatened to drive “most white people in this country out of the military.”

Grieving Time: A Radio Play

This play called Grieving Time, was written from the personal perspective of Rachel Fehily, author and barrister, in 2020 as a response to the Irish Coronavirus lockdown, with a theme based around how small comforts during the lockdown affected people’s grieving process. It was created through a process of collaboration and rehearsal between the author, actor, and producer within the constraints of the time. It was written in monologue for an actor with whom the author had worked previously. The completed radio play was broadcast on 17 August 2021 by the Irish public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann on the radio programme, Drama on One. It is available as a podcast on https://www.rte.ie/radio/dramaonone/1241306-grieving-time-by-rachel-fehily. The intended effect is to create a sense of communitas among listeners.

ENQUIRE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL FUNCTION ON TELEVISI REPUBLIK INDONESIA (TVRI) AS A PUBLIC BROADCASTING INSTITUTION

The function of education is traditionally attached to the role of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI), stated in the Broadcasting Act 32/2002 as one of the public broadcasting institutions, along with Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI), are to carry out this educational function. This article will analyze the education function performed by TVRI. This research employs a single case study design. Data obtained through interviews and literature review. The results of the study show that educational broadcasts on TVRI have been around for a long time. The results of the documentation study show that educational broadcasts on TVRI receive a positive response from the public. Field research shows that one of the educational programs on TVRI, Study from Home (henceforth referred to as Belajar Dari Rumah/ BDR) has outperformed other public programs. Although traditionally considered one of the main functions of public television, the implementation of educational broadcasts, especially formal education on TVRI is not consistently carried out. The absence of formal education programs at TVRI was due to technical constraints in the form of a lack of compatible studio equipment to record formal education programs and unavailable budgets for the programs..

Human resource planning on employee performance at a public broadcasting institution in South Sulawesi

This research is a quantitative research in nature with the aim of knowing the effect of human resource planning on employee performance at the TVRI South Sulawesi Public Broadcasting Institution (LPP). The data collection method used in this study was to distribute questionnaires to 62 respondents as the research sample. The data analysis technique used is descriptive statistical analysis, simple linear regression test, R test and t test using statistics through the application version of the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). 23.The results of this study indicate that Human Resource Planning has a positive and significant effect on Employee Performance at the TVRI South Sulawesi Public Broadcasting Institution (LPP).

The Recreational Radio and the Impact of the Internet on Traditional Media

According to the opinions of experts and analysts, it is clear that in the implementation of the recreational function, not only their direct purpose of entertainment and psycho–emotional influence, but also the formation of ideological consciousness and culture should be taken into account. At the present time, recreational functions play an important role in all mass media. In particular, the recreational functions in radio systems have become very popular. This scientific work provides information about the appearance of recreational functions in radio systems, their actual peculiarities, importance, commercial processes, the influence of private radio stations on the content of public radio stations, and changes in traditional media due to the Internet.

Med nyhetsmediekritik som utgångspunkt för kommunikation: diskutanters kommentarer till ett Facebook-inlägg från SVT Nyheter om elhushållning

On digital platforms, users can express public opinions in relation to the content of major organizations, e.g. public service broadcasters. Although media criticism has been a subject of scholarly interest, research has not primarily regarded communicative aspects of media criticism, despite such criticism potentially changing the premises for e.g. social media news reporting as a discursive practice. Building on a concept of communicative acts, this study investigates news media criticism in comments on a Facebook news post by Swedish public service broadcaster SVT on electricity housekeeping. Eleven news media critical arguments were identified according to two research questions – 1) what is the object of the criticism; 2) what is the communicative purpose of it? – resulting in seven groups of arguments. Focusing on both single instances of argument groups and combinations of groups within individual comments, the study emphasizes the communicative dynamics of news media criticism in altering between objects and purposes. Even though the result is heterogenous, some tendencies arise. Unlike constructive criticism, meant to change news reporting by media’s own standards, a majority of the most common argument groups consist of those who express strategic criticism, seemingly aiming to change media perceptions among a general news audience. Since this criticism regularly also addresses politics, the study further stresses the possibility of viewing media criticism as extended into e.g. political criticism.

Institutionalization of Hate Speech as a Daily Media Practice: The Case of “Wiadomości” TVP1

ABSTRACT In the article, I discuss how hate speech becomes institutionalized in the media discourse thanks to the news media and how it is included in the media practice by public television in Poland. Hate speech is based on expressive, conflict-prone, and black-and-white schemes, employing language characterized by emotions, negative stigmatization, and simplifications. As a case study, I analyze the “Wiadomości” (“News”) daily program on Polish public TV. Over eight years “Wiadomości” has become a broadcast presenting ideological political positions, favoring the party in power, being the primary means for propaganda, as hate speech aimed at opposition parties and their leaders has become customary content in broadcasts. It takes various forms, including the biased selection of content in programs, the structure of information, information strips, and comments of speakers and reporters presenting content. According to the media law in Poland, a public broadcaster has to be an impartial informant while performing its mission. However, TVP became a “hate speech factory” aimed towards political opposition. Using democratic principles, the ruling party made public media publish the content following the political program of the rulers, thus institutionalizing the undemocratic practices.