Moss, G. orcid.org/0000-0003-3486-7748 and Edwards, L. (2024) Public Deliberation and the Justification of Public Service Media. International Journal of Cultural Policy. ISSN 1028-6632
Abstract
Any debate about the future of public media must include the public, but how the public is engaged matters. While public input is elicited by those making governance decisions about public service media, the methods of public engagement used tend to be non-deliberative and so do not provide opportunities for members of the public to discuss and reflect on relevant issues together. We argue that public deliberation is necessary to facilitate a collective public voice that can better justify governance decisions about public service media. To illustrate our argument, we analyse public discussions within an online deliberative assembly about the future of the public service media in the UK. We show not only how assembly participants reflected on and evaluated justifications of public service media in diverse ways, but also the role deliberation played in weeding out unjustifiable claims and facilitating a form of mutual justification among a heterogeneous public.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Deliberation; justification; legitimacy; public media; public service media |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/S007075/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2024 10:36 |
Last Modified: | 24 May 2024 15:16 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10286632.2024.2342277 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:211767 |
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