Abstract
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) was born in the 1950s as an inclusive service for everyone. However, some groups, minorities and social communities have remained in the background of the broadcasters’ programmatic offering until the beginning of the third millennium. In the last few years, this situation seems to have changed thanks to new agreements and treaties. For this reason, this research tries to observe which types and how many varieties have been considered by the public service broadcasters in the official reports from 2013, 2014 and 2015. Moreover, particular attention has been given to accessibility measures for people with visual or auditory functional diversity that each of the broadcasting entities have adopted.
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Data covering the period from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2013 and from September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014.
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Data collected relating to the period 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, but specific months are not shown in the reports.
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The results of this study are part of the research activities developed through Red XESCOM (R2014/026 XESCOM), which is supported by the Regional Ministry of Education and University Management of the Xunta de Galicia; the exploratory tasks from the project Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, a state subprogram of the Generación de Conocimiento del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España about indicators of governance, financing, accountability, innovation, quality and public service of the European broadcasters applicable to Spain in the digital context (Reference CSO2015-66543-P); and the Prometeo programme of the National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science and Innovation (SENESCYT) of Ecuador, developed in the Univesidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ibarra (PUCESI).
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Seijo, S.P., Freire, F.C. (2017). Diversity and Accessibility Measures to Contents in the European Broadcasting Union’s Public Service Broadcasters. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56541-5_10
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