Television Talks

In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is troubled but also governance in a period of crisis. We examine the issue of crisis itself and what solutions there may be (can we learn from history, could Confucianism teach us anything?). But we also ponder some of the issues that remain central problems in our understanding of governance in crisis. Our key argument is that as academics we perhaps need to intervene in discourses that label algorithms as machine-led and hence neutral, in understandings of individual vs social responsibilities etc. We speak about the need for regulation as a pushback against interests by a small number of people and groups that are interconnected, but that this regulation needs to move away from neoliberal understandings of benefits as economic and individual, etc. Some of this will be very obvious to many of us, but perhaps our call to action will fall on open ears?

David Levente Palatinus (Technical University in Liberec) and Elke Weissmann (Edge Hill University) try and define how they understand governance in relation to television. They debate governance from above and from below and pit algorithms and control against more localised public service television.