Decoding EU Digital Strategic Autonomy:
Sectors, Issues, and Partners

Digital content and European culture: a new paradigm

The European Liberal Forum's publication, "Decoding EU digital strategic autonomy - Sectors, isses and partners," co-funded by the European Parliament, has just been released. See below an abstract of the Augusto Preta contribution, entitled Digital Content and European Culture: a new paradigm.

[...] Audiovisual content is not only an industry; it is also a fundamental element of a society that shares core common values defined as cultural identity. A key question today is whether or not we need market regulation [..]

[...] There is no doubt that digital transformation is radically changing the media industry. After music, printed media, and radio, television is now experiencing the same rocky, disruptive path. VOD services therefore represent the latest revolution in the audiovisual sector. They have changed the way we watch content at home and on the move. They have also brought great changes to the production of audiovisual works, and given their increasingly significant position in the audiovisual media services market, they play an equally expanding role in fostering national and European audio-visual production and distribution. [...]

[...] In this context, film and fiction TV therefore play a fundamental role, specific to popular culture: shaping social perceptions of Europe and European identity; and encouraging the development of engaging narrative formats made to enhance the values of diversity, mobility, and transcultural exchange in the constitution of a European identity. [...]

 

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