Special Issue: The European Public Sphere and Mass Communications

Contents: THE MISSING EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE ABSENCE OF IMAGINED EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP: Democratic deficit as a function of a common European media deficit (Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock); THE BIRTH OF A EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE THROUGH EUROPEAN MEDIA REPORTING OF RISK COMMUNICATION (Irene Neverla); EUROCRATS, TECHNOCRATS, AND DEMOCRATS: Competing ideologies in the European Information Society (Peter Golding); MAPPING NEWS ON CHILDREN IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS (Cristina Ponte); POLITICAL COMMUNICATION ABOUT EUROPE ON THE INTERNET DURING THE 2004 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN NINE EU MEMBER STATES (Renée van Os; Nicholas W. Jankowski; Maurice Vergeer) CHANGING SPATIAL RELATIONS IN THE BALTIC REGION AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA: An Estonian perspective (Peeter Vihalemm)