Liberalizing the European Media Politics, Regulation, and the Public Sphere [Hardcover]

This study offers an assessment of the political, cultural, and economic basis of policies for constructing a European Information Society. It concludes that the deregulation of European media has serious consequences for participative democracy of the future.

Introduction
1. The Normative Grounds of Information Policy
2. Paradigms of Public Space
3. Participatory Public Space: A Post-Liberal Framework
4. Telecommunications and the Political Design of the Information Infrastructure
5. Liberalization of Intellectual Property: The Control of Content
6. Audiovisual Background and Conflict of Regulatory Models
7. Realist Internationalism and the Competitive Order of the Information Society
8. Beyond the Promise of Technology: Communication Rights in the Information Society
Bibliography
Index