Media, Democracy and European Culture

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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.

Sujets

• Media Studies
• Social Science
• HISTORY
• Sociologie, société et politique
• General officer
• Politics
• Journalism
• History of Europe
• General
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books Ltd
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781841502878
• Langue: English

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Media, Democracy and European Culture
Media, Democracy and European Culture
Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Madsen
First Published in the UK in 2008 by Intellect Books, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2008 by Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright 2008 Intellect Ltd
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ISBN 978-1-84150-247-2 EISBN 978-1-84150-287-8
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C ONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Madsen
Part One: Media, Power, Democracy and the Public Sphere
Chapter 1 The Political Economy of the Media at the Root of the EU s Democracy Deficit
Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
Chapter 2 Media: the Unknown Player in European Integration
Hans J rg Trenz
Chapter 3 Social Networks and the European Public Sphere
Hannu Nieminen
Chapter 4 Journalistic Freedom and Media Pluralism in the Public Spheres of Europe: Does the European Union Play a Role?
Deirdre Kevin
Chapter 5 The Berlusconi Case: Mass Media and Politics in Italy
Paolo Mancini
Part Two: Journalism and the Europeanization of the Public Spheres
Chapter 6 European Journalism and the European Public Sphere
Peter Golding
Chapter 7 Television News Has Not (Yet) Left the Nation State: Reflections on European Integration in the News
Claes de Vreese
Chapter 8 The Europeanization of the Danish News Media: Theorizing the News Media as both National and Transnational Political Institution
Mark rsten
Chapter 9 Just Another Missed Opportunity in the Development of a European Public Sphere: The European Constitutional Debate in German, British and French Broadsheets
Regina Vetters
Chapter 10 Rare Birds: The Why in Comparative Media Studies. Nordic Ideal Types of Good European Journalism
Vanni Tjernstr m
Part Three: Media, Culture and Democracy
Chapter 11 The Cultural Dimension of Democracy
Jostein Gripsrud
Chapter 12 The European Imaginary: Media Fictions, Democracy and Cultural Identities
Ib Bondebjerg
Chapter 13 Writing the New European Identities? The Case of the European Cultural Journal Eurozine
Tessa Hauswedell
Chapter 14 Intellectuals, Media and the Public Sphere
Peter Madsen
Chapter 15 (De)constructing European Citizenship? Political Mobilization and Collective Identity Formation Among Immigrants in Sweden and Spain
Zenia Hellgren
Part Four: Media and Communication Policy in Europe
Chapter 16 Misrecognitions: Associative and Communalist Visions in EU Media Policy and Regulation
Richard Collins
Chapter 17 Between Supra-national Competition and National Culture? Emerging EU Policy and Public Broadcasters Online Services
Hallvard Moe
Chapter 18 The Effects of the Membership Processes of the European Union on Media Policies in Turkey
Mine Gencel Bek
Chapter 19 Re-conceptualizing Legitimacy: The Role of Communication Rights in the Democratization of the European Union
Julia Hoffmann
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The starting point for this book was a large international conference at the University of Copenhagen in the fall of 2006. For three days senior researchers and Ph.D scholars from all over Europe discussed topics related to media, democracy, the public sphere and European culture. The conference was sponsored by the research priority area Europe in Transition (director, Professor Morten Kelstrup, see http://www.ku.dk/priority/europe/index.asp ) and the local host was the research theme Media, Democracy and European Cultured (see http://www.medec.ku.dk ) coordinated by Ib Bondebjerg and supported by the research priority area. The editors of this book want to thank Morten Kelstrup and the research priority area for supporting the conference and following publication. Also thanks to Rector and Pro-Rector for the University of Copenhagen for establishing this important interdisciplinary research project on Europe.
There is no doubt that research on Europe is on the rise in many new centres for European research globally. In Denmark no less than three new centres for European studies have been formed recently: Centre for European Politics (CEP, http://www.cep.polsci.ku.dk/english ), Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES, http://www.cemes.ku.dk ) and Centre for European Constitutionalization (CEC, http://www.jur.ku.dk/cec ). The three centres have their focus on political science, humanities and law and specialization in European studies is also of course important and necessary. But we also need interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration.
This book is a result of such interdisciplinary research as the conference that started it. Political science, humanities, media studies, law and sociology are among the disciplines covered. The editors want to thank all participants in the conference and the eighteen authors from England, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and Turkey for making this a truly interdisciplinary and European volume.
Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Madsen Copenhagen, May 20 2008
N OTES ON C ONTRIBUTORS
Bek, Mine Gencel is assistant professor since 2004 at Ankara University, Faculty of Communication, Turkey. She has a Ph.D from Loughborough University, UK, with a study of the Turkish press. She has published articles on tabloidization of news, on Turkish media and journalism and on EU coverage in the media. She has recently co-edited Communication Policies in the European Union and Turkey: Market Regulation, Access and Diversity (2005).
Bondebjerg, Ib is professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Section of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, and director of the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES). From 2000 to 2004 he was - together with professor Peter Golding - the co-director of the European research project Changing Media - Changing Europe and from 2002-04 director of the national research project Media and Democracy in the Network Society . He was chairman of the Danish Research Councils 1994-97, member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities, European Science Foundation and chairman of The Danish Film Institute 1997-2000. He is editor in chief of the international journal Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook . His most recent books in English are Moving Images, Culture and the Mind (2000), The Danish Directors: Dialoques on a Contemporary National Cinema (2002, with Mette Hjort) and European Culture and the Media (2004, with Peter Golding).
Collins, Richard is professor of Media Studies, Open University, UK. He is author of several books and articles on the media and the EU including Broadcasting and Audiovisual Policy in the European Single Market (1994), From Satellite to Single Market: New Communication Technology and European Public Service Television (1998) and Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe: Consequences of Global Convergence (2002). In 2005-06 he was specialist advisor to the UK Parliament s House of Lords Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review and in 2006-07 was senior research fellow at the Annenberg Centre for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Golding, Peter is professor of Sociology and pro-vice-chancellor for research, Loughborough University, UK. He was co-director of the research project Changing Media - Changing Europe (2000-04) and he is editor of the European Journal of Communication and chair of the European Sociological Association Media Research network. He has co-edited European Media Culture and the Media (2004) and he has wide international publication on media, political communication and media and Europe.
Gripsrud, Jostein is professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He is an expert on the relations between media, culture and society and has published extensively on the history and social significance of literature, theatre, film, television, journalism and related theoretical and political issues. His most recent book in English, Understanding Media Culture (2002) has been translated into several languages. From 2000-04 he was team leader and member of the Core Steering Group in the research project Changing Media - Changing Europe , funded by the European Science Foundation. He is presently leader of the internationally networked research group DigiCult which organizes research activities on the digitization of media and its effect on culture and democracy.
Hauswedell, Tessa is a Ph.D scholar at the Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has a BA in English Literature, Queen Mary University, London and an MA in Comparative Literature, University College London. From 2002-04 she was managing contents editor of the netmagazine and network of European cultural journals Eurozine in Vienna.
Hellgren, Zenia is a Ph.D scholar in Sociology at Stockholm University. She specializes in migration, ethnic studies and political theory. Her dissertation Voices of the Others: Immigrant Struggles over Borders, Boundaries and Social Membership in Multiethnic Europe focuses on political claims-making among immigrants in Sweden and Spain. She has co-edited a number of anthologies and published several articles related to the project, most recently Los l mites de la solidaridad: Sin papeles y ni os refugiados ap ticos en la sociedad de bienestar sueca , in the anthology La lucha de los Sin papeles y la extensi n de la c