Provide definition for and merits of media governance
One definition of media governance is developed that captures the entirety of rules that aim to organize media systems.
In particular, the article shows the merits of connecting media governance to new sociological institutionalism and concludes by emphasizing the potential of a theoretically grounded concept of media governance.
Journal Articles/Studies
This report presents the phenomena of media freedom and pluralism and the major academic and policy debates about their social, political, economic role and implications. It highlights the importance of media freedom and pluralism for the functioning, sustainability and legitimacy of a democratic regime, and therefore the necessity for relevant policy actions. The text also provides a state of the art perspective on the measuring and evaluating of media pluralism. It analyses major aspects of media economics and ownership, including the tendency to media concentration, the potential relationship between pluralism and the increased number of sources of supply, the impact of emerging "Internet native" media players, and globalisation. The legal core of the report examines the development of the debate on legal instruments and jurisprudence, as well as those EU legal instruments that are currently available to tackle the areas of media pluralism and media freedom. Following on from the few EU instruments that are presently in place, and the general legal uncertainty present in this field, the report aims to suggest how the legislation in force could be used or modified in order to foster media freedom and pluralism in a more efficient way.
His concern is to identify the relative impact of globalisation, neoliberalism and Europeanisation...
His study finds that while much EU policy-making can be impelled by EU institutions themselves (principally the Court), the various factors that get called 'globalisation' - principally economic competition - matter more. Telecommunications, naturally more internationally competitive than electricity, consequently faces liberalising pressure, and liberalises much sooner.
Provide definition for and merits of media governance
One definition of media governance is developed that captures the entirety of rules that aim to organize media systems.
In particular, the article shows the merits of connecting media governance to new sociological institutionalism and concludes by emphasizing the potential of a theoretically grounded concept of media governance.
Data: Funding, Market Shares, Channels, etc..
Overview of 3 Phases: scarcity, choice, abundance
eBook:
http://0-site.ebrary.com.helin.uri.edu/lib/wheatonma/docDetail.action?docID=10275515
National media overwhelmingly shape communication in the political public sphere and, while Europeanization is advancing, there are trends towards depoliticization... What then is the contribution of media to a Europeanizing cultural public sphere? Here the editors fulfil their promise to reassert the cultural dimensions of democracy with essays that explore the role of culture in the formation and transformation of political as well as personal identities....
Bondebjerg argues against modelling a European public sphere and cultural identity on the re-creation at a higher level of national cultures. Rather than a singular, pan-European culture, he finds evidence of a gradual Europeanization of the national public spheres of Europe. Moreover, the
'national' cinemas of Europe are already 'deeply globalized and Europeanized' (234).
An elite political project, democratic deficits, media commercialism and communication failures compound shifts from what Hoffman describes as citizens' 'permissive consensus' to growing apathy and distrust.
the conclusions that the editors do draw are that we cannot speak of one European public sphere, or a common European culture and identity, yet closer Europeanization does influence national public spheres.
Review: http://ejc.sagepub.com/content/26/1/73.full.pdf
The book is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the role of media in sustaining and developing democracy. The second part examines how the EU institutions and European themes are reported in national media, alongside consideration of the Europeanization of media and the extent to which a European public sphere is being realized. The cultural dimensions of democracy are examined in the third part, while the final part addresses media policy in a European context.
(2008)
This paper analyses the newly created communication strategy devised by the European Union Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication and contrasts the mismatch between theoretical concepts of trans-national communication in the social sciences on the one hand and the problematic nature of the EU's communicative approach relating to the national public spheres on the other.
I argue that while some theorists propagate idealistic-normative expectations rather than empirically based policy recommendations, the Commission has begun to listen to academics and politicians who rightfully call for more transparency and interaction with media outlets on a national level.
In 2008 the Culture and Education Committee of the European Parliament promoted a report to support community media in the Union, signalling a new development pursuing to influence media policy discussion in the member states. This article aims to trace the contours of community media's route across European media policies to assess how its practice has been shaped so far and discuss the emerging issues that are likely to influence its near future.
http://www.ceupress.com/books/html/Media-Freedom-and-Pluralism.htm:
The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.
These chapters exemplify the continuing battle in regard to little regulation (some control) versus regulation (more control) versus overregulation (total control) and the realities that such choices engender; the continuing arguments over market media, public service media, and community media and how they should be regulated and shaped; and ultimately the quest for a new utopian European public sphere and equally utopian national media scenes in each EU member country.
As the EU enfolded many of the former communist countries into the bosom of the beautiful Europa, the ideational, conceptual, practical, and enforceability problems of media policies grew exponentially, as Klimkiewicz's collection clearly demonstrates.
Opinion/Reaction
Reaction and review of new HLG report
News Report/Review: 1/21/2013