This exciting collection of papers represents some of the finest communications research published?during the last decade. To mark the 20th anniversary of the European Journal of Communication, a leading international journal, the editors have selected 21 papers, all of which make significant and valuable interventions in the field of media and communications.
The volume is prefaced with an introduction by the editors and will be a central research text for scholars in this field.This exciting collection of papers represents some of the finest communications research published?during the last decade. To mark the 20th anniversary of the European Journal of Communication, a leading international journal, the editors have selected 21 papers, all of which make significant and valuable interventions in the field of media and communications.
The volume is prefaced with an introduction by the editors and will be a central research text for scholars in this field.Introduction and Overview - Denis McQuail PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION Research into International Television Flows - Preben Sepstrup A Methodological Contribution The Mythology about Globalization - Marjorie Ferguson The inflow of American Television Fiction on European Broadcasting Channels Revisited - Els De Bens and Hedwig de Smaele PART TWO: AUDIENCE Five Traditions in Search of the Audience - Klaus Bruhn Jensen and Karl Erik Rosengren Resisting American Hegemony - Daniel Biltereyst PART THREE: POLICY AND POLITICS Accountability of Meida to Society - Denis McQuail A Reponse Who's Afraid of Infotainment? - Kees Brants Political Communication Systems All Change - Jay G Blumler A Response to Kees Brants `Four Mothers' - Dafna Lemish and Inbal Barzel The Womb in the Publl3