Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web

Scholars of journalism, communications, information, science, media, and related disciplines explore the loosely defined area of Internet public service broadcasting, focusing on how organizations that understand themselves as public service broadcasters have developed web services. Their overall themes are what is new about online news; commercial versus public; ideals, policies, and practices; local, national, international, global; and interactivity and public service broadcasting sites. Among specific topics are public service communication at the center of National Public Radio, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation on the web 1994-2000, the idea of public service in the early history of Denmark Radio online, regional radio and online media production by the Australian Broadcasting corporation, and Al-Jazeera English as a case study of moving from broadcast to networked journalism. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Maureen Burns is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies and convenes the media studies major at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her previous book ABC Online: Becoming the ABC detailed a history of the first five years of online services at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Niels Brugger is Associate Professor and Head of The Centre for Internet Research at Aarhus University, Denmark. His primary research interest is web history, and he is writing a history of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s website dr.dk. His latest edited book, Web History (Peter Lang, 2010), puts the emerging field of web history on the agenda of internet research.