Dear Colleagues,
Two new collections from the Institute of Local Television
Questions of spectrum ownership and transfer of access to spectrum away
from public and regulatory control pervade the Digital Dividend Review
which outlines Ofcom's pre-emptive conclusion that auctions and
secondary trading offer a more appropriate form of regulation in the
multi-platform, fast changing, flexible and unpredictable technological
environment.
Ofcom's consultation on the Digital Dividend Review received over 700
responses: very few of these from university departments or academics.
So as communications regulation sets out to reduce the capacity for
public intervention and to extend the influence of market
self-regulation is the academic role one of hand-wringing in between
mopping up in the communication's slaughterhouse or does academic
intervention and the coordination of civil engagement (still) have a
place in defining the scope, inclusion and dynamism of the 'public' in
the future of the public sphere?
Regards,
Dave Rushton
Director Institute of Local Television &
Public Interest Fellow
Department of Geography and Sociology
University of Strathclyde
Collection One:
WHO OWN'S RED? 26 pages, £6.00 inc p&p
three contributions to the Analysys Consultation undertaken for Ofcom's
Digital Dividend Review
Contents: Who owns RED?
examines in particular Clay Shirky's 'The Possibility of Spectrum as a
Public Good'.
BIGGER PICTURE ON THE SMALLER SCREEN
explores failures in cable policy which have been inherited and turned
around positively to inform policies for broadband and future
communications - what forms of service would thrive if there really
were no communications policies rather than market oriented policies?
VALUING LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION
considers the introduction of 'opportunity cost' by Robin Foster at
Ofcom for assessing the value of regional TV programmes. Foster favours
acquired national programming to replace regional rather than local
programming - whereas localised programming was what the viewers had
been calling out in the viewer surveys for since the 1970s
Collection Two:
LOCAL television REPORT COMPILATION - 57 pages, £13.00 inc p&p
A special ACTO LOCAL television REPORT
Contents:-
EXCUSE ME - WHOSE SPECTRUM IS IT?
Based on presentations to the Cross Party Culture and Media Committee
of the Scottish Parliament, Wednesday, 25th October and to Digital
Switchover: Ready for the Revolution? The Hilton Grosvenor Hotel,
Edinburgh Friday 27th October 2006.
RSL 'PUBLIC SERVICE' SURVEY CMA/ILT NOVEMBER 2006
A survey conducted by the Institure of Local Television for ACTO and
the Community Media Association, also published in Airflash, Issue 93,
Winter 2006/7
CASE HISTORIES:
Community Television: Getting There - Northern Visions and the NvTv RSL
(restricted services licence) experience
LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION: consumer research and spectrum issues
with Ofcom's Digital Dividend Review
Paper presented at Ofcom's Scottish consultation Digital Dividend
Review Consultation CoSLA, Edinburgh, 17th January 2007
CITIZEN TELEVISION(II): a local dimension to public service broadcasting
Public Voice presentation, 5th February, International Student Centre,
London
For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2007 at
http://www.arlis.org.uk/even/
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