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Book SynopsisUsing a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, and changes in media policies, this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media, Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies, as well as for those studying sociology and political science.
Table of ContentsForeword – Ib Bondebjerg & Peter Golding Preface – Jostein Gripsrud & Lennart Weibull Public spheres, societal shifts and media modulations – Peter Dahlgren Changing media, changing society: Four decades of European newspapers – Lennart Weibull & Åsa Nilsson 50 years of European television: An essay – Jostein Gripsrud The public reception of early television: When television was new in the Nordic countries – Taisto Hujanen & Lennart Weibull Televisualization of the popular press: An eye-catching trend of the late twentieth century’s media – Juha Herkman British media and regulatory change: The antinomies of policy – John Corner French media: Policy regulation and the public sphere – Josiane Jouët Changing media and public sphere in Turkey: The role of the state, market and the EU candidacy – Mine Gencel Bek Reconsidering the paradox of parochialism and the shrinking news agenda –Biltereyst, Daniel & Live Desmet Fakty vs. Wiadomości: On competition and confusion in Polish TV news – Wieslaw Godzic When the elite press meets the rise of commercial culture – Dominique Pasquier The sounds of change: representations of music in European newspapers 1960-2000 – Klaus Bruhn Jensen & Peter Larsen Celebrity culture and the public sphere: The tabloidization of power – Graham Murdock
