Public Service Broadcasting as an Object for Cultural Policy in Norway and Sweden

A Policy Tool and an End in Itself

Bibliographic Data

ID7512429
AuthorsHåkon Larsen (0009-0003-5212-4048, University of Oslo)
Year2011
Volume32
Issue2
Pages35-47
Publication date2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordicom review/NORDICOM review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1403-1108 • E-ISSN: 2001-5119
PublisherDe Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.1515/nor-2017-0111
OpenAlexW2166427538
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

The future of public service broadcasting (PSB), and its role for democracy and culture in an age of globalization and digitalization, is a disputed issue among communication scholars, journalists, the general public and politicians. The PSB institutions are dependent on political support for their survival, and they have to live up to cultural policy obligations. The focus of this analysis is on the rhetoric employed in the white papers on PSB and overall cultural policy, produced between 2005 and 2007 in Norway and Sweden. The analysis shows that both countries emphasize the need to secure an inclusive public sphere, a vivid democracy and a national culture. The rhetoric differs in the sense that the Norwegian focus is on PSB as a tool for achieving cultural policy goals, while the Swedish focus is more on why the idea of PSB is important in itself

Cultural policy · Democracy · Focus (optics · Globalization · Media studies · Norwegian · Political science · Politics · Public broadcasting · Public service · Public sphere · Rhetoric · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Law · Public Administration

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