Although a signatory of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the ability of the EU to foster cultural diversity in the digital environment is confined on account of its constrained competences in the field of audiovisual media and online content. Notwithstanding, the EU develops a number of substantive policies that benefit the creation and circulation of cultural content either in an explicit or in an implicit manner. Following a value-chain approach, this chapter discusses the complementary role of various EU sectoral regulations towards this aim. The analysis focuses on the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive (Directive 2007/65/EC \textendash 2010/13/EU) and various aspects of the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications, particularly in relation to non-discriminatory access to bottlenecks in the distribution infrastructure and online platforms.

The chapter advances the argument that existing EU policies have an important role to play for ensuring the free circulation of, and access to, cultural content. At the same time, aside from the cultural quotas in the above mentioned AVMS Directive, EU activity is less prominent in the field of content production. The analysis concludes by stressing the complexity of promoting cultural diversity in light of both cultural content supply and demand considerations. It also emphasises the importance of emerging policy issues, in particular net neutrality and findability.
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Pre-publication.<br />
In: E. Psychogiopoulou (ed.), <em>Cultural Governance and the European Union</em>, Houndmills and New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2015 in press.<br />
Also available at SSRN: <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2529044" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2529044</a>
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Zie ook: http://webcolleges.uva.nl/Mediasite/Play/d1f130de5ec444beb799dfa40a1d5d821d
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The emergence of new technological and communicative possibilities and paradigms has prompted conceptual and terminological shifts within the European audio-visual sector. PSBs are nowadays expected to operate across an array of technological platforms in order to perpetuate their traditional position of prominence in a rapidly changing and already highly diversified mediascape. This is evidenced by an increasing tendency to frame relevant regulatory discussions in terms of public service \textit{media} (as opposed to \textit{broadcasting} in the traditional sense of the word), \textit{value(s)} and \textit{governance}.

The existing European regulatory framework for public service broadcasting/media is extensive and spans legal and policy instruments emanating primarily from the European Union and the Council of Europe, but also including standard-setting measures from other intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) such as UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and, to a lesser extent, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Even within the European Union and the Council of Europe, differences of focus and emphasis may readily be detected across the most salient instruments. They engage with the issues highlighted in the preceding paragraphs to varying extents.

The principal aim of this chapter is to present a panorama of regulatory instruments applicable at the European level and to assess their overall coherence. The significance of selected examples of divergence in the broader regulatory approach will be explained and evaluated accordingly.
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In: National Conversations: Public Service Media and Cultural Diversity in Europe, Karina Horsti, Gunilla Hultén & Gavan Titley, eds., Bristol: Intellect Books, 2014, p. 61-82.

See details of the book here.
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ISBN: 9789086920471.

Opstellen gebundeld ter gelegenheid van de 75ste verjaardag van Gerard Schuijt.
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ISBN: 9789086920495.

Annotaties gebundeld ter gelegenheid van de 75ste verjaardag van Gerard Schuijt.
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More information about the book: http://www.ecrea.eu/publications/bookseries

See here the front and back cover of the book.},
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