Democracy and Communication in the New Europe
Change and Continuity in East and West
Will be published approx. on 31. October 1995
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-881303-88-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores answers to the following questions: what has been the impact of the collapse of the Cold War on communication policymaking in Eastern and Western Europe?; how valid is it to talk about ""Europe"" or an increasingly unified European approach to communication policymaking in the new global order of the 1990s?; how far have the recent ""velvet revolutions"" led to the development of more democratic communication orders in Eastern and Central Europe?; and what is the role of communication in the construction of more democratic politics and developed economies in contemporary Europe? The chapters investigate both theoretical and empirical aspects of change in the communication sector in Eastern, Central and Western Europe within a wider, global or international perspective. They also investigate many key features of recent changes in the industrial structure and economic characteristics of the media and telecommunications sphere, as well as in the related political discourse and policy practices. This volume is intended for those concerned with the changing characteristics and structure of the media and telecommunications sectors. It can be used as a supplementary text in courses dealing with the political economy of communications, European communication policies, industries and developments, communications and development, international communications and the deregulation and re-regulation of the communications sector.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cresskill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, indices
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-881303-88-6 (9781881303886)
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Introduction - Communication and the Pursuit of Democracy in the New European and Global Order, Paschal Preston and Farrel Corcoran. Part 1 Contesting Core Concepts - ""Civil Society"", Democracy and the Regulation of the Media: Conceptions of Civil Society and the Re-regulation of Television - A Comparative Analysis, Colin Sparks and Anna Reading; Economic Restructuring, Media Democratisation and Conceptions of Privatisation in Central-Eastern Europe, Slavko Splichal; The Limits of Conventional Notions of Competition in Media Policymaking - the Case of Austria and Ireland, Paschal Preston and Andrea Grisold. Part 2 Globalisation and Culture - the National and Regional in the New Europe: Recent Trends in Coproductions - the Demise of the National, Sharon Strover; The Dialectics of Identity Politics - the Case of Regionalist Television in Spain, Richard Maxwell; The Political Economy of News Flow within Europe - News Agencies and their Media and Nonmedia Markets, Michael Palmer; The Political Economy of Dinosaurs - GATT, Hollywood and Europe, Janet Wasko. Part 3 Inequalities and Change - Gender, Peripherality and Minorities in the New Europe: The President's Men - Television, Gender and the Public Sphere in Eastern-Central Europe, Anna Reading; Communicating Sameness and Containing Diversity - Communication Policies and Ethno-National Policies in the EU, Charles Hubbard; The Reform of Communications Policy in Greece, Natasha Constantelou. Part 4 ""Convergence"" and the Reshaping of European Telecommunications and Information Flows: Local Versus Global in the Modernisation of Central European Telecommunications - a Case Study of US Corporate Investments, Andrew Calabrese; The Development of Telecommunications in Transitional Markets, Jill Hills and Josef Klucka; Competition in the Local Loop - Toward an Anticyclical Competition Policy, Ian van Cuilenburg and Paul Slaa.