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

这是一个历史性的项目，其目的是阐明上世纪80年代玛格丽特·撒切尔(Margaret Thatcher)领导的保守党政府带来的深刻政治、经济和意识形态变化，是如何反映在英国广播媒体中并由其调解的。研究的目的是探讨一九七九至一九九零年期间电台和电视的产量，特别是与公共服务和“公众”概念有关的问题。这项研究将对一九七九至一九九零年期间所有地面电视和电台频道的节目进行一项调查。它将建立一个有关“公众”主题的方案数据库，特别是涉及不断变化的公有制和公共服务模式。它将考虑所有的广播类型，从新闻和时事到喜剧、戏剧、谈话节目和电视广告。为此，有必要找出有关这段时期的广播产出的信息来源。在建立了基本数据后，研究将分析公共服务的代表性以及广播话语中如何动员“公众”的概念。然后，将集中讨论医疗服务和公共卫生的问题，作为详细的案例研究。这一文本分析将分析和说明节目跨流派传达的含蓄和明确的态度/例如节目在多大程度上支持或反对政治变革。它将考虑用来谈论这些变化及其后果的语言，以及提出的虚构和事实的例子。它将考虑广播节目如何调解和解释政治倡议。这一分析将与以下方面有关：a.对20世纪80年代政治的描述，特别是保守党政府在“倒退国家”、私有化和非国有化方面政策的演变，以及不断变化的意识形态话语。国家卫生服务体系内正在发生的具体经济和组织变革。研究小组将带来关于这些变化的专业背景知识。这项研究的范围包括第四频道的开播及其在20世纪80年代的创新节目，这本身就涉及到广播中“公共服务”的重新定义；以及关于解除对广播的监管和英国广播公司的未来的孔雀报告。

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.