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The book concludes with a chapter assessing the pertinence of the public-private dichotomy to an understanding of the history of British broadcasting. It will assess the merits of the dominant British approach of media studies scholars, as well as the critiques that have been raised against the various arguments. Ultimately, it will argue for the continued pertinence of the dichotomy, but on the condition that the dichotomy be understood as historical, processual, protean and dialectical, and not in simplistically static or binary terms.
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Dawes, S. (2017). Why the Public-Private Dichotomy Still Matters. In: British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50097-3_12
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