Media Independence: Working with Freedom or Working for Free?
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34883620
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315776392
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138023482
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book is one of the major outputs from the AHRC grant ‘Multiplatforming public service broadcasting’ (AH-H018522-2), on which Bennett was PI. As part of the project, Bennett organised a conference “Cowboys and Indies: 30 years of Independent TV” (20 September 2012), which examined the role of TV “Indies” in UK production over 30 years. Building on research explored at the conference, the book focuses on the meaning, role and value that the concept and ideal of “independence” plays in organising media systems around the globe. Bennett was lead editor, writing the book proposal, commissioning the chapters and assuming overall editorial responsibility for the project. Co-editor Strange provided editorial assistance and ensured all chapters spoke to industry concerns. The book includes Bennett’s introduction -"Introduction: the utopia of independent media: independence, working with freedom and working for free" (pp.15-42) – as well as the single-authored chapter: "From Independence to Independents, Public Service to Profit: British TV and the Impossibility of Independence" (pp.85-107). It also includes one co-authored chapter with Strange (Co-I on the Multiplatforming Project) and Medrado (Research Assistant on the grant): "A moral economy of independent work? Creative freedom and public service in UK digital agencies” (pp.153-172).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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