Christian Fuchs and Klaus Unterberger, eds. 2021. The Public Service
Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. London: University of
Westminster Press. 135 pages
Open access book: http://doi.org/10.16997/book60
This open access book presents the collectively authored Public Service
Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto and accompanying materials.
The Manifesto has been signed by around 1,000 endorsers, including
Jürgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky, International Federation of Journalists,
European Federation of Journalists, International Association for Media
and Communication Research, European Communication Research and
Education Association. It can be signed at http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto
The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial
Internet platforms endanger democracy. They have created a
communications landscape overwhelmed by surveillance, advertising, fake
news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and algorithmic politics.
Commercial Internet platforms have harmed citizens, users, everyday
life, and society. Democracy and digital democracy require Public
Service Media. A democracy-enhancing Internet requires Public Service
Media becoming Public Service Internet platforms – an Internet of the
public, by the public, and for the public; an Internet that advances
instead of threatens democracy and the public sphere. The Public Service
Internet is based on Internet platforms operated by a variety of Public
Service Media, taking the public service remit into the digital age. The
Public Service Internet provides opportunities for public debate,
participation, and the advancement of social cohesion.
Accompanying the Manifesto are materials that informed its creation:
Christian Fuchs’ report of the results of the Public Service
Media/Internet Survey, the written version of Graham Murdock’s online
talk on public service media today, and a summary of an ecomitee.com
discussion of the Manifesto’s foundations.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Christian Fuchs and Klaus Unterberger
Chapter 2: The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
Chapter 3: The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Utopias
Survey Report
Christian Fuchs
Chapter 4: Public Service Media for Critical Times: Connectivity,
Climate, and Corona
Graham Murdock
Chapter 5: The Future of Public Service Media and the Internet
Alessandro D’Arma, Christian Fuchs, Minna Horowitz and Klaus Unterberger
Translations of the Manifesto are available here:
https://archive.org/details/@public_service_media_and_public_service_internet_manifesto
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