The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy

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