About the Book
Leading scholars investigate media policies in Europe, inquiring into the regulatory practices, policy tools and institutional features of media policy-making in 14 countries. The book offers a fresh assessment of the ways European media policies are formulated and identifies the factors that exert an influence throughout the process.
Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Recasting the Contours of Media Policy in a Political Context: An Introduction; E.Psychogiopoulou & D.Anagnostou Media Policy in Belgium: How a Complex Institutional System Deals with Technological Developments; B.Van Besien & P-F.Docquir Democracy and the Media in Bulgaria: Who Represents the People?; R.Smilova , D.Smilov & G.Ganev Croatia: A Dynamic Evolvement of Media Policy; P.Bilic & N.Švob-Ðokic Danish Media Policy; H.Søndergaard & R.Helles Media Policy in Estonia: Small Market Paradoxes; U.Loit & H.Harro-Loit Finnish Media Policy: Less Restrictive, More Directive; H.Kuutti , E.Lauk , P.Nevalainen & R.Sokka Media Policy in Germany: Main Features and Current Issues; S.Müller & C.Gusy The Greek Media Policy Revisited; E.Psychogiopoulou, A.Kandyla & D.Anagnostou Italian Media Policy Under On-going Transition to Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century; F.Casarosa Struggling with Media Capture: Romania; A.Mungiu-Pippidi & C.Ghinea Slovakia: Reinventing Media Policy without a Practical Perspective; A.Školkay & M.Hong Media Policy in Spain: Public Service, Free Competition and some Internal Diversity; S.de la Sierra , E.Guichot , M.Mantini & I.Sobrino Turkish Media Policy in National Context; D.Kurban & E.Elmas Media Policy in the United Kingdom: Trust and Distrust in a Converging Media Environment; R.Craufurd Smith & Y.Stolte Serving Two Masters: The Roles of the Market and European Politics in the Governance of Media Transformations; K.Sarikakis References Index
About the Author :
DIA ANAGNOSTOU Lecturer of Politics at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at Macedonia University of Thessaloniki, Greece
PA KO BILI? Research Assistant at the Department for Culture and Communications, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
FEDERICA CASAROSA Research Assistant at the European University Institute
RACHAEL CRAUFURD SMITH Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK
SUSANA DE LA SIERRA Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
PIERRE-FRANÇOIS DOCQUIR Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre Perelman for Legal Philosophy and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Information Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
ESRA ELMAS PhD Researcher at the department of Political Science in Galatasaray University, and a Teaching Assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
CRISTIAN GHINEA Executive Director of the think tank Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE), a political analyst and a columnist in the Romanian media
EMILIO GUICHOT REINA Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Seville, Spain
CHRISTOPH GUSY Professor of Law at the University of Bielefeld, Germany
HALLIKI HARRO-LOIT Associate Professor and the head of the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia
RASMUS HELLES Assistant Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
ANNAKANDYLA Research Assistant at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, Greece
DILEK KURBAN Director of the Democratisation Program at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
HEIKKI KUUTTI Research Fellow in Journalism at the Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
EPP LAUK Professor of Journalism at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
URMAS LOIT Lecturer at the University of Tartu, Estonia
MARINA MANTINI Researcher for the MEDIADEM project at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
SEBASTIAN MÜLLER Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Bielefeld, Germany
ALINA MUNGIU PIPPIDI Professor of Governance and Democracy Studies at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany
PASI NEVALAINEN Doctoral student in Finnish history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
MÁRIA ONDRUCHOVÁ-HONG Senior Researcher at School of Communication and Media, Bratislava, Slovakia
KATHARINE SARIKAKIS Professor of Media Governance, Media Structures, and Media Organisation at the University of Vienna, Austria
IRENE SOBRINO Lecturer and Researcher in Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain
RIITTA SOKKA Participated in the research project 'The Publicity of Information of Authorities' at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
HENRIK SØNDERGAARD Associate Professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
YOLANDE STOLTE Editor forthe online legal journal 'SCRIPTed'
ANDREJ KOLKAY Director of the School of Communication and Media, Bratislava, Slovakia
NADA VOB-?OKI? Scientific adviser in the Culture and Communications Department, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
BART VAN BESIEN Researcher at the Centre Perelman for Legal Philosophy, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
Review :
'This very timely, extremely valuable and well-organised collection of informative analyses of media policies in Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in media policy debates, institutional arrangements and regulatory practices within a wide framework of conflicting interests and differing national approaches to communication challenges. Highly commendable!' - Petros Iosifidis, Director of the MA Media and Communication courses, City University London, UK
'Understanding Media Policies puts together fascinating evidence of the patchwork of national media policy models in Europe, yet it provides a common background for their comparison. This is a valuable contribution to the growing literature in media policy studies, with compelling descriptions of politics shaping media landscapes.'
- Beata Klimkiewicz, The Jagiellonian University, Poland
