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Containing state-of-the-art contributions on the various domains of European media policies, this Handbook deals with theoretical approaches to European media policy: its historical development; specific policies for film, television, radio and the Internet; and international aspects of the fragmented policy domain.

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1. Introduction: European Media Policy as a Complex Maze of Actors, Regulatory Instruments and Interests; Karen Donders, Jan Loisen and Caroline Pauwels PART I: KEY CONCEPTS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES 2. Analyzing European Media Policy: Stakeholders and Advocacy Coalitions; Hilde Van den Bulck and 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 ca change; Maria Michalis 9. The End of Public Service and the Reign of Free Market Thinking in Europe; Graham Murdock 10. Television, cohesion and the European Union; Richard Collins 11. The Cultural Facet of the EU Media Policy: Matching Rhetoric to Reality?; Evangelia Psychiogopoulou 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 Member States and European Media Policy; Josef Trappel PART III: SECTOR-SPECIFIC POLICIES 15. Convergence and the Diversity of European Television Systems; Andre 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 and Jef Ausloos 18. The Best Defense is a Good Offense: Putting the European in European-level Film Support; Sophie De Vinck 19. Of High Hopes and High Deficit: An Overview of Europe´s HDTV Policy and Reflections. Towards the Future of High Definition Television; Nils Walravens and Caroline Pauwels 20. Radio Spectrum Policy in the European Union: Concepts, Trends, Issues; Simon Delaere and Christina 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 Public Service Broadcasting: Competition Policy Clashing or Matching with Public Interest Objectives?; Karen Donders and Hallvard Moe 24. Anti-trust: from Eurovision to UEFA and Back Again; Ben Van 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 World Trade Organization; Mira Burri 27. European Media Policy and Cultural Diversity at the International Level: The European Union´s Role in Fostering the Implementation of the 2005 UNESCO Convention; Lilian Richieri Hanania and Helene 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 and Carmina Crusafon

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