European culture and the media [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Golding

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450781803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol ; ; Portland, Or., : Intellect, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-47691-5; 9786610476916; 1-84150-905-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: Changing media, changing Europe series ; ; 1
• Altri autori (Persone): BondebjergIb; GoldingPeter <1947->
• Disciplina: 302.23094
• Soggetti: Mass media - Economic aspects - Europe; Mass media - Social aspects - Europe; Mass media - Europe; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Pages; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Supplementation: On Communicator Control of the Conditions of Reception; From Bricks to Bytes: The Mediatization of a Global Toy Industry; To Boldly Bestride the World like a Colossus: Shakespeare, Star Trek and the European TV Market; Disney Discourses, or Mundane Globalization; Media Audiences and the Game of Controversy: On Reality TV, Moral Panic and Controversial Media Stories; Cultural Citizenship in the Age of P2P Networks; Negotiating European Identity at the Periphery: Media Coverage of Bosnian Refugees and 'Illegal Migration'; Mapping European Identities: A Quantitative Approach to the Qualitative Study of National and Supranational IdentitiesEUROvisions? Monetary Union and Communication Puzzles1; Public Service Strategy in Digital Television: From Schedule to Content; With the Media, Without the Media: Reasons and Implications of the Electoral Success of Silvio Berlusconi in 2001; A Square Peg in a Round Hole: The EU's Policy on Public Service Broadcasting; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: We are witnessing a dynamic reshaping of the European 'mediascape'. ; This has been underway for more than a decade since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the growing impact of globalisation, and the birth of new technologies and new media, or the convergence between old and new media. A new and more intense 'mediatisation' of society and everyday life is emerging. This is happening alongside the rapid reconstruction of the cultural and economic landscape of Europe itself. In this transformation the communicative and ideological dimensions, the digitalisation of technology, and changes in cu