Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy

by Pauwels, Caroline; Kalimo, Harri; Donders, Karen; Van Rompuy, Ben

• ISBN13: 9789054876038
• ISBN10: 9054876034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: ASP Editions

Summary

With expert insights on the challenging task of crafting inclusive, competitive, and culturally diverse European media and communications policy, this collection confronts issues unique to the current era of convergence. Displaying how the media and the information-communications-technology sectors have begun to converge, this carefully researched study considers how previously distinct policies set in place to oversee each are overlapping to create significant problems for public authority. Addressing such questions asHow can policy keep up with current developments in a converging information society?andHow can all interests be taken into account when the value chains are being transformed?this thoughtful account makes it clear that it is necessary to fundamentally reconsider existing legal and policy frameworks.

Author Biography

Caroline Pauwels is director of the Center for Studies on Media, Information, and Telecommunications and a research partner of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology. She lectures on national and European communications policy and media economy in the department of communications sciences at the Free University of Brussels. Harri Kalimo is a senior research fellow at the Institute for European Studies. He is a professor at the law and political sciences faculties at the Free University of Brussels, a visiting fellow at Yale University, and an associate professor at the Turku School of Economics. Karen Donders and Ben Van Rompuy are researchers at the Institute for European Studies and are affiliated with the Center for Studies on Media, Information, and Telecommunications at the Free University of Brussels.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction
The Converging Media and Communications Environment	p. 11
The Practical Environment
Information, Telecommunication Technologies and Media Convergence Challenges	p. 41
Social Computing	p. 75
Networks and Services
The New Audiovisual Media Services Directive	p. 99
Rethinking European Broadcasting Regulation	p. 127
Public Broadcasting and State Aid in the New Media Environment	p. 165
State Aid and Public Service Broadcasting	p. 187
Content and Consumption
State Aid for Film - A Policy Moving Too Fast?	p. 219
Why a UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity of Expression?	p. 241
Can Changes in Copyright Legislation Support Convergence in the Media Sector?	p. 273
Cross-cutting Themes
The Standard of Proof in EC Merger Control	p. 295
Constitutional Rights and New Technologies: A Comparative Perspective	p. 319
Conclusions
Policy Approaches in the Converging Media and Communications Sector	p. 353
List of Contributors	p. 367
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