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Media, Democracy and European Culture

Edited by Ib Bondebjerg, Peter Madsen

ISBN 9781841502472
Paperback 288 pages 230x174mm
Published February 2009
Price £19.95

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Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media, communication policy and the question of how the media report on Europe runs as a thread through all contributions. The book is interdisciplinary and international. It brings together researchers from many countries and from humanities, social sciences and law. The articles combine the discussion of central theories and theoretical concepts for the understanding of media, democracy and European culture with empirical data and comparative analytical studies of media culture and democracy across Europe. The book is written by some of the most prominent European Scholars in media, political science, sociology and cultural studies.



Contents:

Part 1. Media, Power, Democracy and the Public Sphere

Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock : The Political Economy of the Media at the Root of
the EU's Democracy Deficit

Hans Jörg Trenz: Media, the Unknown Player in European Integration

Hannu Nieminen: Social Networks and the European Public Sphere

Deirdre Kevin: Journalistic freedom and media pluralism in the public
spheres of Europe: does the European Union play a role?

Paolo Mancini: The Berlusconi Case: Mass Media and Politics in Italy

Part 2. Journalism and the Europeanization of the Public Spheres

Peter Golding: European Journalism and the European Public Sphere

Claes de Vreese: Television news has not (yet) left the Nation State:
Reflections on European Integration in the News

Mark Ørsten: The Europeanzation of the Danish News Media. Theorizing the
News Media as Both National and Transnational Political Institution

Regina Vetters: Just Another Missed Opportunity: The European Constitutional
Debate in Germany, UK and France

Vanni Tjernström: Rare Birds: The ‘Why' in Comparative Media Studies. Nordic
Ideal Types of Good European Journalism

Part 3: Media, Culture and Democracy

Jostein Gripsrud: The Cultural Dimension of Democracy

Ib Bondebjerg: The European Imaginary: Media Fictions, Democracy and
Cultural Identities

Tessa Hauswedell: Writing the new European identities. The case of the
European cultural journal Eurozine

Peter Madsen: Intellectuals, Media and the Public Sphere

Zenia Hellgren: (De)constructing European Citizenship?: Political
Mobilization and Collective Identity Formation Among Immigrants in Sweden
and Spain

Part 4. Media and Communication Policy in Europe

Richard Collins: Misrecognitions: Positive and Negative Freedom in EU Media
Policy and Regulation, from Television Without Frontiers to the Audiovisual
Media Services Directive

Hallvard Moe: Between Supranational Competition and National Culture:
Emerging EU Policy and Public Broadcasters' Online Services

Mine Gencel Bek: The Effects of the Membership Processes of the European
Union on Media Policies in Turkey

Julia Hoffmann: Re-conceptualizing Legitimacy: The role of Communication
Rights in the Democratization of the European Union