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European Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) are struggling to come to terms with a number of issues: the Europeanisation and globalisation of media ownership, production, programming and distribution; the ’marketisation’ of media output; technological convergence; and audience fragmentation. While the prevailing nation-state frameworks for cultural and political identity are gradually fading, some PSBs are finding it hard to serve and promote national culture and identity, and to meet the challenge of growing uncertainties within a cosmopolitan Europe. At the same time, PSBs are considered to be an important way of helping European citizens make sense of such developments by bearing traces of collective identities and therefore creating an expanded, pan-European cultural space. Can PSBs be ’multi-cultural’ and mobilise a new sense of Europeanness, while at the same time making the transformation into Public Service Media (PSM) and delivering public service content that will meet audience needs in a digital age? The scholars in this volume - covering mainly European countries but also looking comparatively at the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - discuss the contemporary relevance of PSM as a cultural and political enterprise and as a forum in which a variety of cultural demands can best be met.

CAROLE TONGUE is Chair of the UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity and Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London, UK KAROL JAKUBOWICZ is a member of the Council of the Independent Media Commission in Kosovo, and of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme MARIA MICHALIS is Principal Lecturer in Communication, Communication Policy, and Global Media at the University of Westminster, UK MARK WHEELER is Reader in Politics in the Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University, UK BARBARA THOMASS is Professor of International Comparison of Media Systems at the Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany FARREL CORCORAN is Professor of Communication at Dublin City University, Ireland KATHARINE SARIKAKIS is Senior Lecturer in Communications Policy and Director of the Centre for International Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK JEAN K. CHALABY is Reader at the Department of Sociology, City University London, UK ALESSANDRO D'ARMA is Lecturer in Media Industry and Policy at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Westminster, UK JEANETTE STEEMERS is Professor of Media and Communications at the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, UK GREGORY FERRELL LOWE is Professor of Media Management at the University of Tampere, Finland TEEMU PALOKANGAS is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland JEREMY TUNSTALL is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at City University London, UK RAYMOND KUHN is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK RUNAR WOLDT is a journalist writing for 'Media Perspektiven' in Frankfurt, Germany CINZIA PADOVANI is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA BIENVENIDO LEÓN is Associate Professor at the School of Public Communication at the University of Navarra, Spain JOSEF TRAPPEL is Visiting Professor for Media Policy and Media Economy at the University of Vienna, Austria STYLIANOS PAPATHANASSOPOULOS is Professor in Media Organisation and Policy and Head of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece POWEL STEPKA works in the Department of European Policy and International Relations of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland MÁRK LENGYEL works at the Office of the National Radio and Television Commission in Hungary WALTER BAER is Visiting Fellow in International Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, USA PHILIP SAVAGE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University, USA GAY HAWKINS is Professor of Media and Social Theory in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at theUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia TRISHA DUNLEAVY is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand