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, i DTV 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 Content
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Mediating Europe and the Public Sphere
Jackie Harrison
PART I: NEW MEDIA, MASS MEDIA AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE
Chapter 2. European Cosmopolitanism or Neo-liberalism? Questions of Media and Education
Nick Stevenson
Chapter 3. Transformation of the Public Sphere: Law, Policy and the Boundaries of Publicness
Damian Tambini
Chapter 4. Exploring the Online European Public Sphere: The Web and Europeanization of Political Communication in the European Union
Renée van Os, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Fred Wester
Chapter 5. Entertainmentization of the European Public Sphere and Politics
Erkki Karvonen
Chapter 6. A European Model of the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Governance Model
Christiano Bee and Valeria Bello
Chapter 7. Exploring the Role of European Information Society Developments in the Europeanization of Public Spheres
Bridgette Wessels
PART II: 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
Peter Humphreys
Chapter 9. EU Information Policies: A Case Study in the Environmental Sector
Max Craglia and Alessandro Annoni
Chapter 10. Defending Communicative Spaces: The Remits and Limits of the European Parliament
Katharine Sarikakis
Chapter 11. Supranational Regulation: The EU Competition Directorate and the European Audio-visual Marketplace
Mark Wheeler
Chapter 12. The Process of Neo-liberalization and the Transformation of the Turkish Media Sector in the Context of the New Media Architecture
Gülseren Adakli
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Bridgette Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-Digital Worlds at The University of Sheffield. She has worked on several European projects that have addressed new media communication, technology and everyday life, inclusion and exclusion and practices of citizenship and has acted as expert for the Royal Society in their research on public perceptions of ICT, and on the DTI and OST programme on Cybertrust and Crime Prevention. She was an evaluator on the EU Fifth Framework IST programme. She has published books and papers in the field of new media technologies.
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