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Media in Europe Today
Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation. Through a focus on specific European media sectors, it assesses the impact of new technologies across industries and addresses a wide range of practices, strategies, and challenges facing European media today. The Euromedia Research Group has more than twenty years of experience in the observation of trends affecting media today, and this book marks the strong continuation of that long tradition.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I
Chapter 1: The Media in Europe Today: Introduction
Denis McQuail
Chapter 2: Comparing Media Systems: The European Dimension
Barbara Thomass and Hans J. Kleinsteuber
Chapter 3: Newspapers: Adapting and Experimenting
Anker Brink Lund, Karin Raeymaeckers and Josef Trappel
Chapter 4: Radio: A Resilient Medium
Hans J. Kleinsteuber
Chapter 5: Commercial Television: Business in Transition
Laura Bergés Saura and Gunn Sara Enli
Chapter 6: Online Media: Changing Provision of News
Josef Trappel and Gunn Sara Enli
Part II
Chapter 7: Deficits and Potentials of the Public Spheres
Barbara Thomass
Chapter 8: Media Serving Democracy
Hannu Nieminen and Josef Trappel
Chapter 9: From Media Regulation to Democratic Media Governance
Werner A. Meier
Chapter 10: Media Industries: Ownership, Copyright and Regulation
Elena Vartanova, Laura Bergés Saura, Jeanette Steemers and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Chapter 11: From Public Service Broadcasting to Public Service Media
Leen d’Haenens, Helena Sousa and Olof Hultén
Chapter 12: Changing Practices of Journalism
Auksė Balčytienė, Karin Raeymaeckers and Elena Vartanova
Chapter 13: Media and Ethnic Minorities
Leen D’Haenens and Tristan Mattelart
Chapter 14: Europe as World News Leader
Jeremy Tunstall
Biographical Notes
Index