'There's no such thing as society?' A study of broadcasting and the public services under the three Thatcher governments, 1979-1990.

这是一个历史项目，其目的是阐明玛格丽特•撒切尔（Margaret Thatcher）领导的保守党政府在上世纪80年代带来的深刻的政治、经济和意识形态变革，是如何反映在英国广播媒体中，并由其起到中介作用的。目的是探讨1979-1990年期间无线电和电视的产出，特别是与公共服务和“公众”概念有关的产出。这项研究将对1979-1990年期间所有地面电视和无线电频道的节目编制进行清查。它将建立一个关于“公众”主题的方案数据库，特别是关于公共所有权和公共服务模式的变化。它将考虑所有的广播类型，从新闻、时事到喜剧、戏剧、脱口秀和电视广告。为此目的，有必要查明这一期间广播输出的资料来源。在建立了基本数据之后，该研究将分析公共服务的代表性以及在广播话语中动员“公众”概念的方式。然后，它将继续把重点放在卫生服务和公共卫生问题上，作为一个详细的案例研究。这种文本分析将分析和说明跨类型节目所传达的隐含和明确的态度/例如，节目在多大程度上支持或反对政治变革。它将考虑用于谈论变化及其后果的语言，以及所提出的虚构和事实的例子。它将审议广播节目调解和解释政治倡议的方式。这一分析将涉及：a。对20世纪80年代政治的描述，特别是保守党政府在“缩减国家”、私有化和非国有化以及不断变化的意识形态话语方面的政策演变。国民保健制度内部发生的具体经济和组织变化。研究小组将带来有关这些变化的专业背景知识。广播本身的背景，以及围绕其作为“公共服务”角色的辩论。本研究涵盖了1980年代第四频道及其创新节目的推出，其本身涉及广播“公共服务”的重新定义；还有关于放松广播管制和BBC未来的《孔雀报告》。

This is a historical project whose aim is to illuminate the ways in which the profound political, economic and ideological changes brought about by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments in the 1980s, were reflected in and mediated by the UK broadcast media. The aim is to explore the output of radio and television during the period from 1979-1990, particularly in relation to the public services and the concept of 'the public'.The research will undertake an inventory of programming in the period 1979-1990 across all terrestrial television and radio channels. It will create a database of programmes which deal with the topic of 'the public', and specifically with changing patterns of public ownership and the public services. It will consider all broadcast genres, from news and current affairs to comedy, drama, chat shows and television advertising. To this end, it will be necessary to locate sources of information on the broadcasting output during the period.Having established the basic data, the research will analyse the representation of the public services and the ways in which the concept of 'the public' was mobilised in the broadcast discourse.It will then go on to focus on questions of the health service and on public health as a detailed case study.This textual analysis will analyse and illustrate the implicit and explicit attitudes conveyed by the programming across the genres /for example the extent to which the programming was supportive of, or opposed to political changes. it will consider the language used to speak of the changes and their consequences, and the examples, both fictional and factual, which were put forward. It will consider the ways in which broadcast programmes mediated and interpreted political initiatives.This analysis will be related to:a. an account of the politics of the 1980s, specifically the evolution of the Conservative government's policies in relation to 'rolling back the state', privatisation and denationalisation, and the changing ideological discourseb. the specific economic and organisational changes which were occurring within the National Health Service. The research team will bring specialised background knowledge of these changes.c. the context of broadcasting itself, and the debate around its role as a 'public service'.The period of this study covers the launch of Channel Four and its innovative programming across the 1980s, which itself involved a re-definition of 'public service' in broadcasting; and also the Peacock Report on the de-regulation of broadcasting and the future of the BBC.