European media policy for the twenty-first century. Assessing the past, setting agendas for the future

Contents:

1. Contextualising European media policy in the twenty-first century - Manuel Puppis, Seamus Simpson and Hilde van den Bulck

Section I: Understanding Media Policy in an Environment of Media Convergence
2. Beyond the buzz: why media policy researchers should study teletext - Hilde van den Bulck and Hallvard Moe
3. Electronic press: turning a new leaf for convergent media content regulation? - Irini Katsirea
4. #Tweetgate: when public service broadcasters and Twitter go to war: an Irish perspective - Jennifer Kavanagh

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 - Eva Lievens
6. Media policy and regulation in times of crisis - Corinna Wenzel, Stefan Gadringer and Josef Trappel
7. Digital switchover: EU state aid, public subsidies and enlargement - Mark Wheeler

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 - Maria Michalis
9. The net neutrality debate from a public sphere perspective - Francesca Musiani and Maria Löblich
10. Access to the network as a universal service concept for the European information society - Olga Batura

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 - Beata Klimkiewicz
12. Convergent media policy: reflections based upon the Australian case - Terry Flew
13. Communications and social inclusion: universal service policies in Europe and Latin America - Maria Stella Righettini and Michele Tonellotto

Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective media policies can be developed to ensure a healthy communication sector that contributes to the wellbeing of individual citizens, as well as a more democratic society. Faced with a general atmosphere of disillusionment in the European project, one of the core questions tackled by the volume’s contributors is: what scope is there for European media policy that can exist beyond the national level?

Uniquely, the volume’s chapters are structured around four key policy themes: media convergence; the continued role and position of public regulatory intervention in media policy; policy issues arising from the development of new electronic communication network environments; and lessons for European media policy from cases beyond the EU. In its chapters, the volume provides enriched understandings of the role and significance of policy actors, institutions, structures, instruments and processes in communication and media policy.