Research
Media Research Funding Scheme
The BCI's research function plays a vital role in supporting the broadcasting sector and the needs of viewers and listeners.One of the key areas outlined in the BCI Research Policy is the further development of the BCI's research profile and its focus on strategic research initiatives
The BCI launched its Media Research Funding Scheme in 2007. The Scheme develops and maintains links between the BCI, third-level institutions and the broadcasting sector driving quality research initiatives to provide a strong evidence base to the regulatory environment of the BCI's work.
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Media Research Funding Scheme Projects
Dr. Brian O’Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin |
"Media Literacy and the Public Sphere: A contextual Study for Public Media Literacy Promotion in Ireland "
Media literacy is increasingly viewed as essential to maintaining inclusivity in a rapidly changing environment for converged information and communication services. Its insertion within the agreed terms of the Audio Visual Services Directive is an indicator of the siSgnificance attached to the concept by the European Commission. Internationally, Ofcom has provided the principal model for a public regulatory approach. This research asks what other models and considerations may be important in the likely Irish context whereby the proposed Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) will assume a similar responsibility.
REPORT PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER 2008
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Helen Shaw and Dr. Brian O’Neill, Athena Media with Dublin Institute of Technology |
Digital Radio for Ireland: Competing Options, Public Expectations
The Broadcasting Bill 2008 provides for digital terrestrial sound broadcasting services. This project will contribute to the debate on digital radio with research on the sector’s preparedness for digital radio. It will survey both professionals and potential users of digital radio and assess the environment within which public expectations for new audio media services are formed.
REPORT PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2009
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Dr. Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
Irish broadcasting and the ‘New Ireland’; Mapping and Visioning Cultural Diversity
Cultural diversity policies in broadcasting can involve multicultural and minority issues, proactive media pluralism or questions of heritage. The development of such policies in Ireland may involve not only new approaches but a relation to existing policies that address such questions as language, faith and lifestyle. This research project aims to analyse and stimulate this development process, and to produce a report which is of value to Irish media institutions in shaping it.
REPORT AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2009
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Tarlach McGonagle LL.M., University of Amsterdam |
"Promoting cultural diversity in the Irish broadcasting sector: an assessment of international standards and best practices with a view to their operationalisation in an Irish context"
There are several main reasons for the increasing importance of cultural diversity for the Irish broadcasting sector: sudden and significant demographic and socio-cultural changes; a broadcasting environment characterised by rapid technological change, and a legislative environment that is also undergoing considerable change. The key objective of this research project is to devise a set of suitable indicators for measuring cultural diversity in the Irish broadcasting sector. This includes a detailed analysis of relevant international standards and their implications for law- and policy-making at the national level. The analysis will help to clarify key concepts and terminology employed (not always consistently) in European standards.
REPORT AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2009
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Kevin Rafter, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin |
Political Advertising: The Regulatory Position & the Public View
The report will examine issues relating to political advertising in Ireland. It provides a background to the current legislative and regulatory position relating to political advertising in Ireland; examines developments elsewhere; reviews attitudes towards political advertising in Ireland through opinion poll research and face-to-face interviews with relevant individuals/representative bodies; explores possible future developments here, and elsewhere which may have regulatory and legislative consequences in Ireland.
REPORT AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2009
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| Dr. Kenneth Murphy (NUI Maynooth) with NEAR FM | Funding Programmes, Sustaining Broadcasts: A Jurisdictional Analysis of Programme-making Support Schemes for Community Radio
This research will examine Irish and international models for supporting programme production by community radio broadcasters and will explore how those models contribute to the capacities and sustainability of the community radio sector.
REPORT AVAILABLE JUNE 2010 |
| Dr. Niamh Gaynor of Dublin City University (DCU) | Drivers of Change? An Assessment of Plurality within Community Radio in Ireland
This research will provide an in-depth look at the social benefits derived from community stations in Ireland. It will explore the extent to which the membership, operation, programming and management of community stations reflects the plurality of the communities they serve and the degree to which they promote dialogue on issues of concern to their membership
REPORT AVAILABLE JUNE 2010 |