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The public broadcasting governance system has been facing the challenge of transformation and adaptation to the Internet era for decades by trying to adopt governance mechanisms that can help update its values, principles, and Public Service Media offer for the digital society. This approach is the starting point for tracing the genealogy of the origin, regulation, structure, governing system, and governance landscape of the different management models of European public service broadcasting.
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Campos-Freire, F., Vaz-Álvarez, M., Ufarte Ruiz, M.J. (2021). The Governance of Public Service Media for the Internet Society. In: Túñez-López, M., Campos-Freire, F., Rodríguez-Castro, M. (eds) The Values of Public Service Media in the Internet Society. Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56466-7_8
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