Public Service Media in the Digital Age

Dr Ágnes Gulyás is a Reader at the Department of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK. Her research interests include local media and communities, public service media, social media and media organisations. Her recent publications include ‘The influence of professional variables on social media use and views about the tools among UK journalists’ in Digital Journalism, 2013, and ‘Changing Business Models and Adaptation Strategies of Local Newspapers’ in John Mair, Neil Fowler and Ian Reeves (eds. by) What is Local 2012.

Dr Ferenc Hammer is an Assistant Professor at the Media and Communication Department at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary. He teaches and conducts research in the fields of media representations of inequalities and conflict, on cultural history areas such as everyday life in Communism, on content use modalities in the digital environment and the history of television in the Cold War period. His recent publications include “Coy Utopia: Politics in the First Hungarian TV Soap” in Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism edited by Anikó Imre, Timothy Havens, Kati Lustyik; and a book in Hungarian, Jeans Don’t Need Ironing: Everyday Life Under Socialism.