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Book SynopsisThe EU is in a constant state of flux: its constitution, its institutions and especially its political, economic and regulatory borders. Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media, looking beyond national and cultural boundaries. This compilation also views the mass media not only in its more traditional senses, but looks at newer media technologies and their applications.The recurring theme that binds the diverse papers in this collection is the relationship between European media industries and their social, political, economic and legislative contexts. The first part of the collection offers a snapshot of media politics, policies, industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole; the second part presents comprehensive case studies of the history and current state of the mass media in specific European nations, making Media in the Enlarged Europe an essential resource for media academics and students.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: 'The Enlarged Audio-visual Europe: The Many Faces of Europeanization' - Page 13 - Hedwig de Smaele Chapter 2: 'Trends in Television Programming: Commercialization, Transnationalization, Convergence' - Page 23 - Andrea Esser Chapter 3: 'Pluralist over Profitable: The Audio-visual Transformation Dilemma in Central and Eastern Europe' - Page 37 - Gabriela E. Chira Chapter 4: 'A New European Information Order' - Page 45 - Jim Hall Chapter 5: 'The European Union and the Press' - Page 53 - David Hutchison Chapter 6: 'An Elusive European Public Sphere: The Role of Shared Journalistic Culture' - Page 61 - Monika Metykova and Paschal Preston Chapter 7: 'Domesticating Europe: Communicative Spaces of the East of West' - Page 69 - Inka Salovaara-Moring Chapter 8: 'The European Union and its 'Promotions Deficit': Political Communication and the Global Warming Issue' - Page 79 - Neil T. Gavin Chapter 9: 'The Other Frontier: Media Assistance by International Organizations' - Page 91 - Friederike von Franque Chapter 10: 'Brand Europe: Moves Towards a Pan-European Identity' - Page 97 - Rudiger Theilmann Chapter 11: 'Religious Identities in the European Media: A Legal Perspective' - Page 105 - Russell Sandberg Chapter 12: 'The Mediated 'Ummah' in Europe: The Islamic Audience in the Digital Age' - Page 113 - Yasmin Ibrahim Chapter 13: 'Vernacular Geopolitics and Media Economies in an Enlarged Europe' - Page 125 - Mark Hayward Chapter 14: 'New Labour and the Reinvention of British and European History' - Page 133 - Oliver Daddow Chapter 15: 'Influences on the Editorial Opinions of the British Press Towards the European Union' - Page 145 - Julie Firmstone Chapter 16: 'News from Brussels, in Brussels: EU Reporting as Part of a 'Glocalized' and Market-driven Journalism: A Case Study of the Belgian Newspaper De Morgen' - Page 159 - Kristel Vandenbrande and Davy Geens Chapter 17: 'Challenges of Media Concentration: The Case of Regional Press Ownership in the Czech Republic' - Page 169 - Monika Metykova and Lenka Waschkova Cisarova Chapter 18: 'Public Interest Speech and Investigative Journalism: Latvia, the Diena Case and the European Court of Human Rights' - Page 177 - Richard Caddell Chapter 19: 'Challenges for Romanian Investigative Journalism' - Page 187 - Valentina Marinescu Chapter 20: 'Media Development in Moldova and European Integration' - Page 191 - Liliana Vitu Chapter 21: 'Maintaining Old Traditions of Media Diversity in Europe: The Non-Muslim Minority Media in Turkey' - Page 199 - Eylem Yanardagoglu Chapter 22: 'New Media, New Europe: Estonia's E-mediated State' - Page 207 - Alec Charles
