Project information
Rethinking the Role of Czech Public Service Media: Expectations, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Project Identification
- GA22-30563S
- Project Period
- 1/2022 - 12/2024
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Social Studies
Public service media (PSM) face serious challenges that undermine its legitimacy, including digitization, fragmentation, populism, politicization, polarization, economic pressure, disinformation, and declining public confidence. As a result, social consensus regarding its role is falling apart. This project builds on the international discussion about the changing position of PSM and it examines, in the context of these changes, how Czech society evaluates the current functioning of PSM, how it perceives the public value it brings, and what it expects for the future. Using a mixed research design (e.g., interviews, questionnaires, content analyses), the perspectives of three stakeholders are analyzed: the public (i.e., PSM client and funder); political actors, including PSM council members (i.e., those who set the institutional framework for PSM and oversee its functioning); and PSM journalists and managers (i.e., the PSM content creators). The project will provide an empirically based analysis for possible common ground upon which a future consensus for Czech PSM can stand.
Sustainable Development Goals
Masaryk University is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to improve the conditions and quality of life on our planet by 2030.
Publications
Total number of publications: 12
2024
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Conceptualizations and Constructions of Values, Identities, and Roles of Public Service Media Through the Lenses of the Czech PSM Journalists and Managers
Year: 2024, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Média veřejné služby v Česku: očekávání a hodnocení ze strany veřejnosti
Year: 2024
2023
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Arguing About the Essence of Public Service in Public Service Media : A Case Study of a Newsroom Conflict at Slovak RTVS
Journalism Studies, year: 2023, volume: 24, edition: 10, DOI
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Evropský kontext financování médií veřejné služby
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Financování médií veřejné služby v evropském kontextu
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Financování médií veřejné služby: slovenská zkušenost
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Poslání médií veřejné služby
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Should they be neutral, should they be biased? Audience Expectations of Public Service Media in the Czech Republic
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media : A Case Study from the Czech Republic
Year: 2023, type:
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Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media : A Case Study from the Czech Republic
Media and Communication, year: 2023, volume: 11, edition: 4, DOI