Vendredi 18 janvier 2018, 14h00-18h00 . Colloque de la House of Public Affairs (Université de Dauphine) et du LCP (Langage, Communication, Politique - Irisso-Dauphine/CNRS) *

*Le gouvernement travaille actuellement sur une réforme de l’audiovisuel public dont il a esquissé un projet déjà très avancé. Ce projet prend à bras le corps les nouveaux usages des médias dans le cadre de la révolution numérique. Pourtant, il ne se pose pas assez, nous semble-t-il, la question du service public. Que signifie cette notion dans ce nouveau contexte ? Le service public ne doit-il pas aujourd’hui devenir d’abord un service au public ? C’est à dire dépasser le cadre juridique et institutionnel traditionnel pour instituer un rapport mieux articulé aux NTIC et en particulier aux nouveaux modes d’information (réseaux sociaux, blogs, chaînes d’info françaises ou étrangères etc…) ? Se poser la question et des publics au pluriel auquel il s’adresse et du service rendu au public par les opérateurs privés (radios, télévision, presse, etc.) ? *

*Notre colloque souhaite aborder ces questions en s’appuyant sur les travaux de chercheurs en histoire et en sociologie des médias, dont les terrains d’étude recoupent les principaux lieux d’invention et de transformation du service public audiovisuel. Les langues de travail du colloque seront l’anglais et le français. L’entrée du colloque est gratuite, l’inscription est obligatoire via le formulaire suivant : https://goo.gl/forms/R7rCVlYqcr7HNCBv1

Programme du colloque

*La notion de service public dans l’audiovisuel public français. * Isabelle Veyrat-Masson, PhD est directrice de recherche au CNRS. Historienne et sociologue des médias, elle travaille sur les usages politiques de l’histoire à la télévision et sur la communication politique  ; elle a analysé les médias dans plusieurs émissions (radio et TV). Elle est spécialiste de l’histoire de la télévision et de son rôle.

*Permanent Crisis or New Opportunities ? Public Service Broadcasting and its Contemporary Challenges : Production, On-line Distribution and Audiences.* Massimo Scaglioni, PhD – Università Cattolica del SacroCuore, Milano Starting from the main findings of a long-lasting research on Public Service Broadcasting in the Italian scenario, the speech will focus on the most relevant and urgent research questions surrounding the challenges and opportunities for a public service broadcaster in a fully convergent scenario. Through an analytical framework based on media economics and media industries studies, it will highlight in particular the decisive issues of content production and international (mostly European) co-production, content distribution (in relation to the new role played by OTT platforms and players as both competitors and possible allies) and audiences.

*Public Service Media in the Age of Information Disorder * Minna Aslama Horowitz, PhD, Docent Professor (University of Helsinki) & Fellow of the Institute for International Communication (St. John’s University, New York).

Public service broadcasting (PSB) and its digital reiteration, public service media (PSM) organizations have for almost a century been key national institutions in most European countries. They have a strong presence also elsewhere, especially in the former Commonwealth countries. The BBC and other Western PSBs have served as models in many a media development project in emerging democracies. This presentation, based on a background policy briefing for the Council of Europe, focuses on the challenges of PSM in the context of Information Disorder. It highlights several unique, yet similar, challenges many mature as well as novel public service organizations face today ; but also offers examples of innovative approaches by numerous public service broadcasters from Europe and elsewhere. Finally, it proposes a new conceptual framing for PSM to position the ideal and praxis in the current, complex media ecosystems.

*From State Broadcaster to Democratic Platform : Reimaging the BBC for the Digital Age * Tom Mills, PhD, CCISC Aston University

The archetypal public broadcaster, the BBC is celebrated for its tradition of independence and impartiality. In truth though it has always been too closely tied to the British state, domestically and internationally. With the rapid rise of online platforms and subscription services like Alphabet Inc, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix, radical reform will be required to meet the challenges of the digital age. This reform, however, must not only offer a challenge the power of the private platforms, but should address the perennial political problems associated with the BBC’s top-down, static structures, and its highly politicized system of managerial and editorial control.