Christian Fuchs and Klaus Unterberger, eds. 2021. The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto. London: University of Westminster Press. 135 pages
Open access book: http://doi.org/10.16997/book60
ISBN (PDF): 978-1-914386-29-9
ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-914386-30-5
ISBN (Kindle): 978-1-914386-31-2
Book version of http://bit.ly/psmmanifesto with accompanying chapters.
The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto can be signed here: http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto
This open access book presents the collectively authored Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto and accompanying materials.
The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. They have created a communications landscape overwhelmed by surveillance, advertising, fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and algorithmic politics. Commercial Internet platforms have harmed citizens, users, everyday life, and society. Democracy and digital democracy require Public Service Media. A democracy-enhancing Internet requires Public Service Media becoming Public Service Internet platforms – an Internet of the public, by the public, and for the public; an Internet that advances instead of threatens democracy and the public sphere. The Public Service Internet is based on Internet platforms operated by a variety of Public Service Media, taking the public service remit into the digital age. The Public Service Internet provides opportunities for public debate, participation, and the advancement of social cohesion.
Accompanying the Manifesto are materials that informed its creation: Christian Fuchs’ report of the results of the Public Service Media/Internet Survey, the written version of Graham Murdock’s online talk on public service media today, and a summary of an ecomitee.com discussion of the Manifesto’s foundations.
The Manifesto can be signed by visiting http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Christian Fuchs and Klaus Unterberger
Chapter 2: The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
Chapter 3: The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Utopias Survey Report
Christian Fuchs
Chapter 4: Public Service Media for Critical Times: Connectivity, Climate, and Corona
Graham Murdock
Chapter 5: The Future of Public Service Media and the Internet
Alessandro D’Arma, Christian Fuchs, Minna Horowitz and Klaus Unterberger
Further Infos and Reports about the Manifesto
ORF DialogForum: Das Internet Manifesto (The Internet Manifesto). October 4, 2021 (broadcast on October 7 & 9, 2021, on ORF III). Video YouTube
ORF Digital.Leben: Manifest für ein öffentlich-rechtliches Internet (Manifesto for a Public Service Internet). ORF Radio Ö1, October 4, 2021. Audio
ORF Press Release: ORF-Public-Value-Tag: Weltweites Public-Service-Internet-Manifest vorgestellt (ORF Public Value Day: Presentation of a Global Public Service Internet Manifesto). ORF, October 4, 2021. Web PDF
Christian Fuchs. 2021. Channel 4: Rather Than Privatising Public Service Media We Should Be Expanding It Online. The Conversation, 23 June 2021. Link
Public Service Internet: Retter der Demokratie? [Public Service Internet: Saviour of Democracy?] Salzburger Nachrichten, 14 October 2021, p. 21. Link