Media, Democracy and European Culture, IB BONDEBJERG AND

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Media, Democracy and European Culture, IB BONDEBJERG AND PETER MADSEN, , emne: politik

Media, Democracy and European Culture, IB BONDEBJERG AND PETER MADSEN, emne: politik

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360 pages | 7 x 9 | © 2008
Media, Democracy and European Culture presents up-to-date and cutting-edge research on the political and cultural dimension of democracy in Europe and its representation in the media. This interdisciplinary volume brings together the work of some of the most prominent European scholars in media, political science, sociology, cultural studies and law. The contributors explore issues of globalization, the role of the media and communication policy to order to provide a comparative country-to-country look at how the media constructs European identity. This timely and forward-looking collection will be of interest to scholars of media, international and cultural studies
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 Jörg 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 Orsten
Chapter 9
Just Another Missed Opportunity in the Development of a European Public Sphere: The European Constitutional Debate in German, British and