Latvian public service broadcasting (PSB) at a media policy crossroads on the path to public service media (PSM)

Multi - cultural Switzerland – multicultural public service media ?

In this article a special attention is paid to the to the role of public service broadcaster in cultural diversity societies. The main aims of the author was answering the following questions: how cultural pluralism is implemented by the public service broadcaster in Switzerland? How the Swiss PSB implements the principle of cultural pluralism, particularly in the context of the access of natio...

Public service broadcasting in the digital world

Service-Oriented Workflow for Digital Media Broadcasting

The broadcasting industry is faced with increasing demand for the digitalization of their systems. The growing market for rich media content combined with the high availability of affordable bandwidth and the multiplicity of delivery channels, is leading the enterprises to evaluate how to create, manage and distribute digital media in a more efficient and strategic way. In this context the intr...

Developing a citizen-centered model in the Iranian public sector with a new public service approach

Purpose: Citizen-centered government agencies are a prototype of new public service approach which, in effect, calls for citizenship orientation of state-owned agencies. This study aimes at developing a citizen-centered model in the Iranian public sector with a new public service approach.  Methodology: To realize this purpose, the main themes of the main subject of the study were identified u...

Public Protests, Social Media and Policy Making Public Protests, Social Media and Policy Making *

We explore the limits of petitions and public protests as mechanisms to aggregate dispersed information. We show that if citizens’ signals are not sufficiently precise, information aggregation is impossible, even if the conflict with the policy-maker is small, no matter how large is the population of informed citizens. We characterize the conditions on conflict and the signal structure that gua...