European media [electronic resource] : structures, policies and identity / Stylianos Papathanassopoulos and Ralph Negrine.

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Published: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2011.
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Series:Global media and communication.
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Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Media in the European Context
  • Dimensions of Europeanization
  • organization of the book
  • pt. I Political Economy of Media in Europe
  • 2. Structure of (Old) Media in Europe
  • Media models
  • challenges to public broadcasting systems
  • consolidation of the media industry
  • foundation of new regulatory bodies
  • newspaper sector
  • Summary
  • 3. New Media in Europe
  • new media and European industrial policy
  • penetration of the internet in Europe
  • development of digital television
  • Internet protocol television (IPTV)
  • Mobile TV
  • High definition TV (HDTV)
  • From VCR to DVD
  • Radio: the analogue medium?
  • Newspapers: between the internet and the freesheets
  • Summary
  • pt. II Europeanization of the European Media
  • 4. Europeanizing the Media of Europe
  • Audiovisual policy: from `Television without Frontiers' to `Audiovisual Media Services'
  • Country of origin
  • Linear and non-linear audiovisual services
  • Advertising
  • Product placement
  • Support schemes
  • EU policy on media ownership
  • Public broadcasting and the EU
  • Summary
  • 5. Question of Content: Quality, Availability and Production
  • New media, new content
  • EU and the new media `content'
  • Television content
  • increase in the volume of programming
  • new `defi americain'
  • increase in the volume of European productions
  • Media programme
  • importance of programme rights
  • Copyright
  • Summary
  • 6. Audiences and Consumption
  • media-rich society
  • Changing media, changing patterns of consumption
  • impact of the internet
  • TV versus internet
  • Cable and satellite TV
  • Different patterns of media consumption
  • Preferences in TV programmes
  • Media consumption at home
  • Summary: the multimedia environment and multitasking
  • pt. III Europe as a Cultural and Political Project
  • 7. Public Communication in Europe: Constructing Europe and the European Public Sphere
  • EU media studies
  • European public sphere- what is it, is there one and do we need it?
  • European public sphere
  • EU journalism and the European public sphere
  • What drives EU news coverage? What are the news values adopted? How do journalists work?
  • Too much or too little coverage of the EU?
  • EU communicating the EU: Plan D for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate
  • Media and politics in a European context
  • Change at the level of media and media practice
  • Changes at the level of the political party
  • Media and politics in the era of the internet
  • Summary
  • 8. Media and European Identity
  • Europe and Europeanness: Where is Europe? What is the European Union?
  • Becoming European
  • European identity
  • Being part of Europe
  • How Europe sees itself and others: the coverage of Turkey's accession bid in 2004
  • Turkey, the EU and accession talks in 2004: newspaper coverage in some member states
  • place of history, culture and memory in the French and British press coverage
  • Summary
  • 9. Conclusions.

  • 1. Introduction: The Media in the European Context
  • -- Part I: The Political Economy of Media in Europe. 2. The Structure of (Old) Media in Europe
  • - 3. The New Media in Europe
  • -- Part II: The Europeanization of the European Media. 4. Europeanizing the Media of Europe
  • - 5. The Question of Content: Quality, Availability and Production
  • - 6. Audiences and Consumption
  • -- Part III: Europe as a Cultural and Political Project. 7. Public Communication in Europe: Constructing Europe and the European public Sphere
  • - 8. Media and European Identity
  • - 9. Conclusions.