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Title Media freedom and pluralism : media policy challenges in the enlarged Europe / edited by Beata Klimkiewicz
Published Budapest, Hungary ; New York : Central European University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 336 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Towards democratic regulation of European media and communication / Hannu Nieminen -- Visions of media pluralism and freedom of expression in EU information society policies / Miyase Christensen -- From media policy to integrated communications policy : how to apply the paradigm shift on a European and national level / Halliki Harro-Loit -- New media legislation: methods of implementing rules relating to on-demand services / Éva Simon -- A failure in limiting restrictions on freedom of speech : the case of the audiovisual media services directive / Péter Molnár -- Struggling with diversity : objectives, outcomes, and future of the European quota policy in the context of the television scene in the Czech Republic / Václav tetka -- Television : the stepmother? / Lilia Raycheva -- Challenges of regulation of the blogosphere / Andrej Skolkay -- Audience resistance : reasons to relax content regulation / Péter Bajomi-Lázár -- From PSB to PSM : a new promise for public service provision in the information society / Karol Jakubowicz -- Regulating media concentration within the Council of Europe and the European Union / Mihály Gálik -- Which governance for the European audiovisual landscape? a multidimensional perspective / Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Fausto Colombo -- The link that matters : media concentration and diversity of content / Zrinjka Peruko -- Developing the "third sector" : community media policies in Europe / Kate Coyer and Arne Hintz
Summary Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Mass media policy -- European Union countries
Communication policy -- European Union countries
Mass media -- Political aspects -- European Union countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
Communication policy
Mass media policy
Mass media -- Political aspects
European Union countries
Form Electronic book
Author Klimkiewicz, Beata
LC no. 2010011444
ISBN 9781441677099
1441677097
9786155211850
615521185X
1283248409
9781283248402