Directing diversity: Managing cultural diversity media policies in Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting

Directing diversity:

Managing cultural diversity media policies in Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting

1. Karina Horsti
   1. CEREN, University of Helsinki, Finland, karina.horsti@helsinki.fi

1. Gunilla Hultén
   1. Stockholm University, Sweden, hulten@jmk.su.se

資料來源

 doi: 10.1177/1367877910382180 International Journal of Cultural Studies March 2011 vol. 14 no. 2 209-227

摘要Abstract

• This article sets out to examine and evaluate the Finnish and Swedish public service broadcasting companies’ cultural diversity management and implementation. Diversity policies have been in place in Europe since the 1960s. At present, in the 2000s, there are a variety of strategies to increase the representation of minorities and the recruitment of journalists with minority backgrounds into mainstream media. European collaboration is both taking inspiration and ideas from national experiences and disseminating ‘good practices’. This article analyses how and for what purposes diversity discourses are used, and how cultural/mission and economic/market arguments are articulated within the companies’ cultural diversity media policies. Interviews with managers responsible for cultural diversity issues in both Finnish YLE and Swedish SVT broadcasters and policy documents are scrutinized using critical discourse and policy analysis. Both companies have replaced their multicultural policies aimed at providing specific services for minority groups with integrationist policies aimed at mainstreaming cultural diversity. This shift has led to a collapse of the opposition between ‘public’ and ‘market’ values, although this is articulated differently in the two companies. 

關鍵字

• cultural diversity
• ethnic minorities
• media diversity
• media policy
• multiculturalism
• public service broadcasting