Dr Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and Head of Department of Journalism Studies, The University of Sheffield. She has written extensively on European media policy and news. Her most recent works are News, Routledge 2006 and European Broadcasting Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press 2007. She is also Chair of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at The University of Sheffield. Bridgette Wessels is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield. Her interests are broadly centred in the areas of culture and communication in a European context. She has worked on several European projects that have addressed new media communication, technology and everyday life, inclusion and exclusion and practices of citizenship and has acted as expert for the Royal Society in their research on public perceptions of ICT, and on the DTI and OST programme on Cybertrust and Crime Prevention. She was an evaluator on the EU Fifth Framework IST programme. She has published books and papers in the field of new media technologies.

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• Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Mediating Europe and the Public Sphere Jackie Harrison PART I: NEW MEDIA, MASS MEDIA AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE Chapter 2. European Cosmopolitanism or Neo-liberalism? Questions of Media and Education Nick Stevenson Chapter 3. Transformation of the Public Sphere: Law, Policy and the Boundaries of Publicness Damian Tambini Chapter 4. Exploring the Online European Public Sphere: The Web and Europeanization of Political Communication in the European Union Renee van Os, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Fred Wester Chapter 5. Entertainmentization of the European Public Sphere and Politics Erkki Karvonen Chapter 6. A European Model of the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Governance Model Christiano Bee and Valeria Bello Chapter 7. Exploring the Role of European Information Society Developments in the Europeanization of Public Spheres Bridgette Wessels PART II: EU AUDIO-VISUAL AND INFORMATION SOCIETY POLICIES: DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE MEDIATION OF EUROPE Chapter 8. EU Audio-visual Policy, Cultural Diversity and the Future of Public Service Broadcasting Peter Humphreys Chapter 9. EU Information Policies: A Case Study in the Environmental Sector Max Craglia and Alessandro Annoni Chapter 10. Defending Communicative Spaces: The Remits and Limits of the European Parliament Katharine Sarikakis Chapter 11. Supranational Regulation: The EU Competition Directorate and the European Audio-visual Marketplace Mark Wheeler Chapter 12. The Process of Neo-liberalization and the Transformation of the Turkish Media Sector in the Context of the New Media Architecture Gulseren Adakli Notes on Contributors Index

Dr Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and Head of Department of Journalism Studies, The University of Sheffield. She has written extensively on European media policy and news. Her most recent works are News, Routledge 2006 and European Broadcasting Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press 2007. She is also Chair of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at The University of Sheffield. Bridgette Wessels is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield. Her interests are broadly centred in the areas of culture and communication in a European context. She has worked on several European projects that have addressed new media communication, technology and everyday life, inclusion and exclusion and practices of citizenship and has acted as expert for the Royal Society in their research on public perceptions of ICT, and on the DTI and OST programme on Cybertrust and Crime Prevention. She was an evaluator on the EU Fifth Framework IST programme. She has published books and papers in the field of new media technologies.

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• Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Mediating Europe and the Public Sphere Jackie Harrison PART I: NEW MEDIA, MASS MEDIA AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE Chapter 2. European Cosmopolitanism or Neo-liberalism? Questions of Media and Education Nick Stevenson Chapter 3. Transformation of the Public Sphere: Law, Policy and the Boundaries of Publicness Damian Tambini Chapter 4. Exploring the Online European Public Sphere: The Web and Europeanization of Political Communication in the European Union Renee van Os, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Fred Wester Chapter 5. Entertainmentization of the European Public Sphere and Politics Erkki Karvonen Chapter 6. A European Model of the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Governance Model Christiano Bee and Valeria Bello Chapter 7. Exploring the Role of European Information Society Developments in the Europeanization of Public Spheres Bridgette Wessels PART II: EU AUDIO-VISUAL AND INFORMATION SOCIETY POLICIES: DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE MEDIATION OF EUROPE Chapter 8. EU Audio-visual Policy, Cultural Diversity and the Future of Public Service Broadcasting Peter Humphreys Chapter 9. EU Information Policies: A Case Study in the Environmental Sector Max Craglia and Alessandro Annoni Chapter 10. Defending Communicative Spaces: The Remits and Limits of the European Parliament Katharine Sarikakis Chapter 11. Supranational Regulation: The EU Competition Directorate and the European Audio-visual Marketplace Mark Wheeler Chapter 12. The Process of Neo-liberalization and the Transformation of the Turkish Media Sector in the Context of the New Media Architecture Gulseren Adakli Notes on Contributors Index

Dr Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and Head of Department of Journalism Studies, The University of Sheffield. She has written extensively on European media policy and news. Her most recent works are News, Routledge 2006 and European Broadcasting Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press 2007. She is also Chair of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at The University of Sheffield. Bridgette Wessels is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield. Her interests are broadly centred in the areas of culture and communication in a European context. She has worked on several European projects that have addressed new media communication, technology and everyday life, inclusion and exclusion and practices of citizenship and has acted as expert for the Royal Society in their research on public perceptions of ICT, and on the DTI and OST programme on Cybertrust and Crime Prevention. She was an evaluator on the EU Fifth Framework IST programme. She has published books and papers in the field of new media technologies.

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• Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Mediating Europe and the Public Sphere Jackie Harrison PART I: NEW MEDIA, MASS MEDIA AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE Chapter 2. European Cosmopolitanism or Neo-liberalism? Questions of Media and Education Nick Stevenson Chapter 3. Transformation of the Public Sphere: Law, Policy and the Boundaries of Publicness Damian Tambini Chapter 4. Exploring the Online European Public Sphere: The Web and Europeanization of Political Communication in the European Union Renee van Os, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Fred Wester Chapter 5. Entertainmentization of the European Public Sphere and Politics Erkki Karvonen Chapter 6. A European Model of the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Governance Model Christiano Bee and Valeria Bello Chapter 7. Exploring the Role of European Information Society Developments in the Europeanization of Public Spheres Bridgette Wessels PART II: EU AUDIO-VISUAL AND INFORMATION SOCIETY POLICIES: DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE MEDIATION OF EUROPE Chapter 8. EU Audio-visual Policy, Cultural Diversity and the Future of Public Service Broadcasting Peter Humphreys Chapter 9. EU Information Policies: A Case Study in the Environmental Sector Max Craglia and Alessandro Annoni Chapter 10. Defending Communicative Spaces: The Remits and Limits of the European Parliament Katharine Sarikakis Chapter 11. Supranational Regulation: The EU Competition Directorate and the European Audio-visual Marketplace Mark Wheeler Chapter 12. The Process of Neo-liberalization and the Transformation of the Turkish Media Sector in the Context of the New Media Architecture Gulseren Adakli Notes on Contributors Index