Denis McQuail & Peter Golding 
Communication Theory and Research [PDF ebook] 

Introduction and Overview – Denis Mc Quail
PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Research into International Television Flows – Preben Sepstrup
A Methodological Contribution
The Mythology about Globalization – Marjorie Ferguson
The inflow of American Television Fiction on European Broadcasting Channels Revisited – Els De Bens and Hedwig de Smaele
PART TWO: AUDIENCE
Five Traditions in Search of the Audience – Klaus Bruhn Jensen and Karl Erik Rosengren
Resisting American Hegemony – Daniel Biltereyst
PART THREE: POLICY AND POLITICS
Accountability of Meida to Society – Denis Mc Quail
A Reponse
Who′s Afraid of Infotainment? – Kees Brants
Political Communication Systems All Change – Jay G Blumler
A Response to Kees Brants
`Four Mothers′ – Dafna Lemish and Inbal Barzel
The Womb in the Public Sphere
A Critical Review and Assessment of Herman and Chomsky′s `Propaganda Model′ – Jeffery Klaehn
PART FOUR: JOURNALISM
The Sacred Side of Professional Journalism – Thorbj[um]orn Broddason
Telling Stories – Peter Golding
Sociology, Journalism and the Informed Citizen
Beyond Journalism – Jo Bardoel
A Profession between Information Society and Civil Society
Journalistic Codes of Ethics in Europe – Tiina Laitila
`Infosuasion′ in European Newspapers – Rossella Savarese
A Case Study on War in Kosovo
News Production in Contemporary Russia – Olessia Koltsova
PART FIVE: MEDIA CULTURE
European Soap Operas – Tamar Liebes and Sonia Livingstone
The Diversification of Genre
Gendering the Internet – Liesbet van Zoonen
Claims, Controversies and Cultures
Lifestyle Segmentation – Patrick Vyncke
Consumer Culture, Islam and the Politics Lifestyle – Baris Kilichay nad Mutlu Binarck
Fashion for Veiling in Contemporary Turkey

Els De Bens is professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University. Her main teaching and research activities are situated in the field of media economy, media policy, journalism studies and ICT. She is an active member of several international networks, including the Euromedia Research Group and the ESF Changing Media, Changing Europe Programme. Els De Bens is visiting professor at the universities of Berkeley (US), Nurnberg, Lille, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Dortmund and Moscow. Furthermore, she is co-editor of the European Journal of Communication and promotor, co-promotor or contractor of four international and two national research projects. She is also member of several evaluation commissions (teaching and research) in Portugal, Switzerland and Netherlands. She is Chairman of the Flemish Media Council. Her scientific publications include 8 books, 29 chapters in international books, 14 refereed articles in international reviews and 35 articles in national and international journals.