Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, and changes in media policies, this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media, Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies, as well as for those studying sociology and political science.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Jostein Gripsrud & Lennart Weibull
Part I: A Theoretical Perspective
Chapter 1: Public Spheres, Societal Shifts and Media Modulations
Peter Dahlgren
Part II: Structures
Chapter 2: Four Decades of European Newspapers: Structure and Content
Lennart Weibull & Åsa Nilsson
Chapter 3: 50 Years of European Television: An Essay
Jostein Gripsrud
Part III: Intermedia
Chapter 4: The Public Reception of Early Television: When Television was New in the Nordic Countries
Taisto Hujanen & Lennart Weibull
Chapter 5: Televisualization of the Popular Press: An Eye-catching Trend of the Late Twentieth Century’s Media
Juha Herkman
Part IV: Policies
Chapter 6: British Media and Regulatory Change: The Antimonies of Policy
John Corner
Chapter 7: French Media: Policy Regulation and the Public Sphere
Josiane Jouët
Chapter 8: Changing Media and Public Sphere in Turkey: The Role of the State, Market and the EU Candidacy
Mine Gencel Bek
Part V: Records of Cultural Change
Chapter 9: Reconsidering the Paradox of Parochialism and the Shrinking News Agenda
Daniel Bilterreyst & Lieve Desmet
Chapter 10: Fakty vs. Wiadomości: One Competition and Confusion in Polish TV News
Wieslaw Godzic
Chapter 11: When the Elite Press Meets the Rise of Commercial Culture
Dominique Pasquier
Chapter 12: The Sounds of Change: Representations of Music in European Newspapers 1960-2000
Klaus Bruhn Jensen & Peter Larsen
Chapter 13: Celebrity Culture and the Public Sphere: The Tabloidization of Power
Graham Murdock
Appendices
Appendix 1: Four Decades of European News Papers: Background and Method
Åsa Nilsson & Lennart Weibull
Appendix 2: RHACNA: Code Form
Åsa Nilsson & Lennart Weibull
Index