The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy

1. Introduction: European Media Policy as a Complex Maze of Actors, Regulatory Instruments and Interests

1. Introduction: European Media Policy as a Complex Maze of Actors, Regulatory Instruments and Interests
Karen Donders, Jan Loisen, Caroline Pauwels

Part I. Key Concepts and Theoretical Approaches

2. Analyzing European Media Policy: Stakeholders and Advocacy Coalitions
Hilde Bulck, Karen Donders

3. Convergence, Co-evolution and Complexity in European Communications Policy
Michael Latzer

4. Identity and Diversity in European Media Policy: Crisis Changes Everything(?)
Katharine Sarikakis

5. Old and New Issues in Media Economics
Pieter Ballon

6. Between Economic Objectives and Public Remit: Positive and Negative Integration in European Media Policy
Eva Nowak

Part II. The Development of European Media Policy

7. Genesis and Rationales for European Intervention in Media
Caroline Pauwels

8. Focal Points of European Media Policy from Inception till Present: Plus Ça change?
Maria Michalis

9. Another People: Communication Policy and the Europe of Citizens
Graham Murdock

10. Television, Cohesion and the EU
Richard Collins

11. The Cultural Facet of the EU Media Policy: Matching Rhetoric to Reality?
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

12. Here Comes the Revolution — the European Digital Agenda
Robin Mansell

13. The ECJ as Agenda Setter in European Audiovisual Media Policy
Amedeo Arena

14. Small States and European Media Policy
Josef Trappel

Part III. Sector-Specific Policies

15. Convergence and the Diversity of European Television Systems
André Lange

16. The Television Without Frontiers Directive
Irini Katsirea

17. Audiovisual Media Services 3.0: (Re)defining the Scope of European Broadcasting Law in a Converging and Connected Media Environment
Peggy Valcke, Jef Ausloos

18. The Best Defense is a Good Offense: Putting the European in European-Level Film Support
Sophie Vinck

19. Of High Hopes and High Deficit: An Overview of Europe’s HDTV Policy and Reflections: Towards the Future of HDTV
Nils Walravens, Caroline Pauwels

20. Radio Spectrum Policy in the EU: Concepts, Trends, Issues
Simon Delaere, Cristina Cullell-March

21. ‘Are You Sure/That We Are Awake?’: European Media Policy and Copyright
Fiona Macmillan

Part IV. Competition Policies

22. The Reasons for Intervention through Competition Policy
Herbert Ungerer

23. European State-Aid Control and PSB: Competition Policy Clashing or Matching with Public Interest Objectives?
Karen Donders, Hallvard Moe

24. The Impact of EU Competition Policy on the Sale of Sports Media Rights: Trends and Developments at the National Level
Ben Rompuy

25. Pluralism, Media Mergers and European Merger Control
Petros Iosifidis

Part V. International Aspects of European Media Policy

26. Trade versus Culture: The Policy of Cultural Exception and the WTO
Mira Burri

27. European Media Policy and Cultural Diversity at the International Level: The EU’s Role in Fostering the Implementation of the 2005 UNESCO Convention
Lilian Richieri Hanania, Hélène Ruiz Fabri

28. Mainstreaming Culture in EU External Relations through Protocols on Cultural Cooperation: Fostering or Faltering Cultural Diversity?
Jan Loisen

29. The European Audiovisual Policy Goes Abroad: The Case of Inter-regional Cooperation with Mercosur
Daniele Canedo, Carmina Crusafon

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