Media Between Culture and Commerce

by De Bens, Els

• ISBN13: 9781841501659
• ISBN10: 1841501654
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781841509785
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E
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Summary

In the face of declining newspaper sales, challenges from online competitors, and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs, media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance.Media between Culture and Commercebrings together a group of European media experts to address the consequences of a system that is increasingly powered by global media conglomerates that set the pace of news and information. As national borders blur and the corporations behind journalism and broadcasting continue to merge, this timely volume will prove a necessary resource to those interested in European media studies and globalization.

Author Biography

Els de Bens is chair of the Department of Mass Communication Research at Ghent University and a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
 
 

Table of Contents

Foward

Media Between Culture and Commerce

An Introduction

Media diversity, competition and concentration

Concepts and Theories

Winfried Schulz & Richard van der Wurff with contributions from Ildiko Kovats

Measuring and Assessing Empirical Media

Diversity: Some European Cases

Toward Easy-to-Measure Media Diversity Indicators

Public Service Broadcasting: A Pawn on an Ideological Chessboard

Financing Public Service Broadcasters in the New Era

Public Service Broadcasting and New Technologies

Marginalisation or Re-Monopolisation

Looking to the Future

Media Governance Structure in Europe

Towards Democratic Media Governance

References

Biographies

Index

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