'Public Service Broadcasting Online explains the rich and treasured legacies of, and current threats to, institutions that historically have been vital to a cultural and political sense of belonging and engagement among Europeans. By taking stock of and comparing a diverse range of European public service broadcasting (PSB) systems, Benedetta Brevini helps us understand the ongoing political stakes of the digital migration of PSB. More importantly, at a time when European governments of all kinds have fallen prey to the seductions and imperatives of neoliberal ideology and practice, the author offers invaluable guidance for preserving what is best about European public service media.' - Professor Andrew Calabrese, University of Colorado, USA'Public service broadcasting was a visionary experiment that extended the social purpose of radio and television through the enabling role of the democratic state. Can the potential of the internet to serve the public be similarly extended through state intervention? What are the obstacles that lie in the way? For an innovative and scholarly answer, read this admirable book.'- Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK"In short, with this work Brevini adds to the considerable school of thought on PSM. She successfully ties the specifities of public broadcasters' online activities to their historical, political and cultural development. The comprehrensiveness of her theoretical and empirical endeavours, while sometimes perhaps somewhat frustrating to those media policy scholars that look for the 'nitty-gritty' details of legal arrangements, is impressive and shows us a bigger picture that merits more scientific attention in the future." - Karen Donders, International Journal of Digital Television,
