Mediating Europe

Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication at The University of Sheffield. She has written extensively on European media policy and news. Her most recent works are News (Routledge, 2006) and European Broadcasting Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2007). She is also Chair of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at The University of Sheffield.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: Mediating Europe and the Public SphereJackie HarrisonPART I: NEW MEDIA, MASS MEDIA AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHEREChapter 2. European Cosmopolitanism or Neo-liberalism? Questions of Media and EducationNick StevensonChapter 3. Transformation of the Public Sphere: Law, Policy and the Boundaries of PublicnessDamian TambiniChapter 4. Exploring the Online European Public Sphere: The Web and Europeanization of Political Communication in the European UnionRenée van Os, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Fred WesterChapter 5. Entertainmentization of the European Public Sphere and PoliticsErkki KarvonenChapter 6. A European Model of the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Governance ModelChristiano Bee and Valeria BelloChapter 7. Exploring the Role of European Information Society Developments in the Europeanization of Public SpheresBridgette WesselsPART II: EU AUDIO-VISUAL AND INFORMATION SOCIETY POLICIES: DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE MEDIATION OF EUROPEChapter 8. EU Audio-visual Policy, Cultural Diversity and the Future of Public Service BroadcastingPeter HumphreysChapter 9. EU Information Policies: A Case Study in the Environmental SectorMax Craglia and Alessandro AnnoniChapter 10. Defending Communicative Spaces: The Remits and Limits of the European ParliamentKatharine SarikakisChapter 11. Supranational Regulation: The EU Competition Directorate and the European Audio-visual MarketplaceMark WheelerChapter 12. The Process of Neo-liberalization and the Transformation of the Turkish Media Sector in the Context of the New Media ArchitectureGülseren AdakliNotes on ContributorsIndex