Digital First!

Shagrir, Oranit Klein

doi:10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc176

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“…This shift from legacy media-focused PSB organizations to multi-platform PSM organizations includes an ongoing expansion of the content produced and revised means of dissemination. PSM organizations include more of their regularly produced content in online platforms (such as YouTube and Facebook) and digital-only produced content for the purpose of greater exposure, as well as two-way communication with audiences via online engagement (Dorot, 2020;Klein-Shagrir, 2019). In today's digital landscape, online platforms have shifted audience attention and screen time towards social media use, multiple screens use, and easily accessible on-demand video content (rather than traditional scheduled television programs).…”

Section: Re-thinking Psm Diversity In the Online Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Public Service Media and Diversity in the Digital Media Landscape: Opportunities and Limitations for Social Justice

Yadlin,

Klein-Shagrir

2024

SSJ

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This essay reviews the place and role of Public Service Media (PSM) in promoting social justice in the changing digital media landscape through the ethos of diversity. Media diversity – the value and practice of including varied viewpoints, social groups, voices, and channels or outlets in media – has long been a declared pillar of PSM organizations worldwide. However, current changes in the digital media landscape and the growing extension of PSM organizations to digital platforms require re-reading the premise of promoting media diversity as a tool for social justice. This essay identifies a paradox. On one hand, online media appear to accommodate a greater range of diverse voices and players, particularly in the PSM ecosystem. At the same time, these very same online spaces jeopardize diversity, as the increasing practices of personalization, algorithmic curation, and platformization often reduce diversity of representations, voices, and exposure to content, thereby hindering opportunities for social justice and equality. This essay shines a spotlight on this nexus of conflicting mechanisms. The essay begins with in-depth definitions of the two somewhat convoluted terms diversity and social justice. This section includes a review of global perspectives on PSM organizations, and the long-standing value of diversity promoted through them for decades. We then review the impact and changes identified in PSM platforms worldwide in light of the digital turn in the media field. This is followed by an in-depth discussion of the inherent tension between mechanisms that promote and hinder diversity online. Throughout this discussion, we raise questions about the practical dimensions of using online media to promote social justice through diversity. It provides a useful starting point for considering the intersection of Public Service Media, online platforms, diversity, and social justice. Thus, the essay will serve academic scholars studying social justice on a conceptual level as well as practitioners and stakeholders in the media industry at large, and PSM in particular, seeking to practically promote social justice.

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Section: Re-thinking Psm Diversity In the Online Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%