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: 17
2023
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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
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Two Sides of the Same Coin? Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media: A Case Study from the Czech Republic
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Two Sides of the Same Coin? Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media: A Case Study from the Czech Republic
Year: 2023, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings