European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century : Assessing the Past, Setting Agendas for the Future.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Contextualising European Media Policy in the Twenty-First Century -- SECTION I: Understanding Media Policy in an Environment of Media Convergence -- 2 Beyond the Buzz: Why Media Policy Researchers Should Study Teletext -- 3 Electronic Press: Turning a New Leaf for Convergent Media Content Regulation? -- 4 #Tweetgate: When Public service Broadcasters and Twitter Go to War - An Irish Perspective -- SECTION II: The Relevance of Public Regulatory Intervention in Media Policy -- 5 Is Self-Regulation Failing Children and Young People? Assessing the Use of Alternative Regulatory Instruments in the Area of Social Networks -- 6 Media Policy and Regulation in Times of Crisis -- 7 Digital Switchover: Eu State Aid, Public Subsidies and Enlargement -- SECTION III: Regulatory Policy Issues in Advanced Communication Network Environments -- 8 New Networks, Old Market Structures? The Race to Next Generation Networks in the Eu and Calls for a New Regulatory Paradigm -- 9 The Net Neutrality Debate from a Public Sphere Perspective -- 10 Access to the Network as a Universal Service Concept for the European Information Society -- SECTION IV: Lessons for European Media Policy from Cases beyond the Eu -- 11 Between Norms and Accomplishment: Lessons for Eu Media Policy from Eu Enlargements -- 12 Convergent Media Policy: Reflections Based Upon the Australian Case -- 13 Communications and Social Inclusion: Universal Service Policies in Europe and Latin America -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Tables -- 6.1 Media Policy Documents -- 11.1 Freedom of the Press Rankings by Freedom House (2005-2013) for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

11.2 'Press Freedom Index' by Reporters Without Borders (2005-2014) for Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia -- 11.3 The average share of transmission time devoted to European works in the CEE Member States between 2005 and 2010 -- 13.1 Empirical dimensions of Universal Service Obligations regulatory regimes: orientation and organization -- 13.2 Variation in growth of Internet users between 2008 and 2012 -- 13.3 The Evolution of the legal framework on USO in Telecommunication (UE-UK-FR-ES-IT) -- 13.4 The Evolution of the legal framework of US in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela -- 13.5 Orientation in USO programs -- 13.6 Core USO actors in EU and Latin American regulatory regimes -- 13.7 The organization and orientation of the USO regimes in EU and Latin American States -- 13.8 Procedures for selecting of USO providers -- Figures -- 11.1 Freedom of the Press ranking by Freedom House (2005-2013) for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia -- 11.2 Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (2005-2013) for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia -- 11.3 The average share of transmission time devoted to European works in the CEE Member States between 2005 and 2010.

This collection discusses the main conceptual and practical issues which have framed the academic analysis of communication and media policies in Europe over the course of at least the last decade, exploring the key issues that can set the agenda for the short to medium term in communication and media policy in Europe.

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