Looking beyond national and cultural boundaries, Media in the Enlarged Europe focuses on the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media. Contributors to this volume address the continuing growth and expansion of the European Union, relationships between old and new Europe, and social and political developments in the former communist countries. Media in the Enlarged Europe presents snapshots of media politics, policies, industries, and cultures in the European Union as a whole, while incorporating case studies of the history and current state of mass media in specific nations. This will be an essential volume for students and experts in media studies, international relations, and international studies.
Introduction: States of Transition
Alec Charles
Part One: State of the Union
The Enlarged Audio-visual Europe: The Many Faces of Europeanization
Hedwig de Smaele
Trends in Television Programming: Commercialization, Transnationalization, Convergence
Andrea Esser
Pluralist over Profitable: The Audio-visual Transformation Dilemma in Central and Eastern Europe
Gabriela E. Chira
A New European Information Order
Jim Hall
The European Union and the Press
David Hutchison
An Elusive European Public Sphere: The Role of Shared Journalistic Cultures
Monika Metykova and Paschal Preston
Domesticating Europe: Communicative Spaces of the East of West
Inka Salovaara-Moring
The European Union and its ’Promotions Deficit’" Political Communication and the Global Warming Issue
Neil T. Gavin
The Other Frontier: Media Assistance by International Organizations
Friederike von Franqué
Brand Europe: Moves Towards a Pan-European Identity
Rudiger Theilmann
Religious Identities in the European Media: A Legal Perspective
Russell Sandberg
The Mediated ’Ummah’ in Europe: The Islamic Audience in the Digital Age
Yasmin Ibrahim
Part Two: States of the Union
Vernacular Geopolitics and Media Economies in an Enlarged Europe
Mark Hayward
New Labour and the Reinvention of British and European History
Oliver Daddow
Influences on the Editorial Opinions of the British Press Towards the European Union
Julie Firmstone
News from Brussels, in Brussels: EU Reporting as Part of a ’Glocalized’ and Market-driven Journalism: A Case Study of the Belgian Newspaper De Morgen
Kristel Vandenbrande and Davy Geens
Challenges of Media Concentration: The Case of Regional Press Ownership in the Czech Republic
Monika Metyková and Lenka Waschková Císarová
Public Interest Speech and Investigative Journalism: Latvia, the Diena Case and the European Court of Human Rights
Richard Caddell
Challenges for Romanian Investigative Journalism
Valentina Marinescu
Media Development in Moldova and European Integration
Liliana Vitu
Maintaining Old Traditions of Media Diversity in Europe: The Non-Muslim Minority Media in Turkey
Eylem Yanardagoglu
New Media, New Europe: Estonia’s E-mediated State
Alec Charles
Contributors