Media in the Enlarged Europe

by Charles, Alec

• ISBN13: 9781841509983
• ISBN10: 1841509981
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781841502946
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E
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Summary

The 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. Media in the Enlarged Europe is an essential resource for media academics and students.

Author Biography

Alec Charles is a senior lecturer in media at the University of Bedfordshire. He previously worked as a documentary program-maker for BBC radio and has served as a professor of media at Audentes International University in Tallinn, Estonia, where he also worked as a journalist for the Baltic Times.

Table of Contents

Introduction: States of Transition	p. 9
State of the Union	p. 11
The Enlarged Audio-visual Europe: The Many Faces of Europeanization	p. 13
Trends in Television Programming: Commercialization, Transnationalization, Convergence	p. 23
Pluralist over Profitable: The Audio-visual Transformation Dilemma in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 37
A New European Information Order	p. 45
The European Union and the Press	p. 53
An Elusive European Public Sphere: The Role of Shared Journalistic Cultures	p. 61
Domesticating Europe: Communicative Spaces of the East of West	p. 69
The European Union and its 'Promotions Deficit': Political Communication and the Global Warming Issue	p. 79
The Other Frontier: Media Assistance by International Organizations	p. 91
Brand Europe: Moves Towards a Pan-European Identity	p. 97
Religious Identities in the European Media: A Legal Perspective	p. 105
The Mediated 'Ummah' in Europe: The Islamic Audience in the Digital Age	p. 113
States of the Union	p. 123
Vernacular Geopolitics and Media Economies in an Enlarged Europe	p. 125
New Labour and the Reinvention of British and European History	p. 133
Influences on the Editorial Opinions of the British Press Towards the European Union	p. 145
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	p. 159
Challenges of Media Concentration: The Case of Regional Press Ownership in the Czech Republic	p. 169
Public Interest Speech and Investigative Journalism: Latvia, the Diena Case and the European Court of Human Rights	p. 177
Challenges for Romanian Investigative Journalism	p. 187
Media Development in Moldova and European Integration	p. 191
Maintaining Old Traditions of Media Diversity in Europe: The Non-Muslim Minority Media in Turkey	p. 199
New Media, New Europe: Estonia's E-mediated State	p. 207
Contributors	p. 221
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