Mediating Europe : : New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere / / ed. by Jackie Harrison, Bridgette Wessels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adakli, Gülseren,; Annoni, Alessandro,; Bee, Cristiano,; Bello, Valeria,; Craglia, Max,; Harrison, Jackie,; Humphreys, Peter,; Jankowski, Nicholas W.,; Karvonen, Erkki,; Os, Renée van,; Sarikakis, Katharine,; Stevenson, Nick,; Tambini, Damian,; Wessels, Bridgette,; Wester, Fred,; Wheeler, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Harrison, Jackie,; Wessels, Bridgette,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a specific European public sphere as part of the wider European Project. This timely volume addresses the little understood relationship between old and new media, communications policy at the European level, issues of regulation and competition within the EU, the role of the European Parliament in media policymaking, and the questions emerging about the sustainability of traditional public service broadcasting. To understand the concrete significance of these debates two contributions address specific practical areas, i.e. the potential of online environments and specific developments in European media contexts, such as channel strategies, web-related services, iDTV and community networks. Consequently, Mediating Europe provides an original and important contribution to understanding the role of the media in shaping a European public sphere.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Mediating Europe and the Public Sphere -- Part 1: New Media, Mass Media and the European Public Sphere -- Chapter 2: European Cosmopolitanism or Neo-liberalism? Questions of Media and Education -- Chapter 3: Transformation of the Public Sphere: Law, Policy and the Boundaries of Publicness -- Chapter 4: Exploring the Online European Public Sphere: The Web and Europeanization of Political Communication in the European Union -- Chapter 5: Entertainmentization of the European Public Sphere and Politics -- Chapter 6: A European Model of the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Governance Model -- Chapter 7: Exploring the Role of European Information Society Developments in the Europeanization of Public Spheres -- Part 2: EU Audio-visual and Information Society Policies: Developments and Challenges for the Mediation of Europe -- Chapter 8: EU Audio-visual Policy, Cultural Diversity and the Future of Public Service Broadcasting -- Chapter 9: EU Information Policies: A Case Study in the Environmental Sector -- Chapter 10: Defending Communicative Spaces: The Remits and Limits of the European Parliament -- Chapter 11: Supranational Regulation: The EU Competition Directorate and the European Audio-visual Marketplace -- Chapter 12: The Process of Neo-liberalization and the Transformation of the Turkish Media Sector in the Context of the New Media Architecture -- Notes on Contributors -- Index