Description
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.
Chapter
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
Chapter 2 Media: the Unknown Player in European Integration
Chapter 3 Social Networks and the European Public Sphere
Chapter 4 Journalistic Freedom and Media Pluralism in the Public Spheres of Europe:Does the European Union Play a Role?
Chapter 5 The Berlusconi Case: Mass Media and Politics in Italy
Part Two: Journalism and the Europeanization of the Public Spheres
Chapter 6 European Journalism and the European Public Sphere
Chapter 7 Television News Has Not (Yet) Left the Nation State: Reflections on European Integration in the News
Chapter 8 The Europeanization of the Danish News Media: Theorizing the News Media as both National and Transnational Political Institution
Chapter 9 Just Another Missed Opportunity in the Development of a European Public Sphere: The European Constitutional Debate in German, British and French Broadsheets
Chapter 10 Rare Birds: The ‘Why’ in Comparative Media Studies. Nordic Ideal Types of Good European Journalism
Part Three: Media, Culture and Democracy
Chapter 11 The Cultural Dimension of Democracy
Chapter 12 The European Imaginary: Media Fictions, Democracy and Cultural Identities
Chapter 13 Writing the New European Identities? The Case of the European Cultural Journal Eurozine
Chapter 14 Intellectuals, Media and the Public Sphere
Chapter 15 (De)constructing European Citizenship? Political Mobilization and Collective Identity Formation Among Immigrants in Sweden and Spain
Part Four: Media and Communication Policy in Europe
Chapter 16 Misrecognitions: Associative and Communalist Visions in EU Media Policy and Regulation
Chapter 17 Between Supra-national Competition and National Culture? Emerging EU Policy and Public Broadcasters' Online Services
Chapter 18 The Effects of the Membership Processes of the European Union on Media Policies in Turkey
Chapter 19 Re-conceptualizing Legitimacy: The Role of Communication Rights in the Democratization of the European Union