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.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Foreword
• Notes on Contributors
• 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 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 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 HDTV - Nils Walravens and Caroline Pauwels
• 20 Radio Spectrum Policy in the EU: Concepts, Trends, Issues - Simon Delaere and 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 and Hallvard Moe
• 24 The Impact of EU Competition Policy on the Sale of Sports Media Rights: Trends and Developments at the National Level - 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 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 and 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 and Carmina Crusafon