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Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe: Consequences of Global Convergence »

Authors: Richard Collins
ISBN-13: 9781841500447, ISBN-10: 1841500445
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Richard Collins

Book Synopsis

To evaluate the policies, institutions, and informing ideologies of contemporary Europe, Collins (media studies, Open U.) examines public service broadcasting, and the nascent integrative regulatory paradigm for media and communications in the era of convergence/competition policy. He advocates both public service and the market. He has not indexed his work. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

1	Introduction	1
	Europe
2	Challenges and Opportunities. Broadcasting in Multi-national States	7
3	Television, Identity and Citizenship in the European Union	25
4	Locked in a Mortal Embrace. The European Union Audiovisual Policies of the UK and France	43
	Public Service Broadcasting
5	Public Service Broadcasting and Freedom	65
6	Two Types of Freedom. Broadcasting Organisation and Policy on both sides of the Atlantic	81
7	Public Service and the Media Economy. European Trends in the late 1990s	95
8	Supper with the Devil. A case study in public/private collaboration in broadcasting. The genesis of Eurosport	107
	Policy and Regulation
9	Cultural Development in an Open Economy. Trading in Culture: the role of Language	117
10	Paradigm Regained? Where to in Media and Communications Regulation	133
11	Back to the Future. Digital Television and Convergence in the UK	147
	Bibliography	165

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