Product Description: When the financial markets collapsed in 2008, the media industry was affected by a major slump in advertising revenues, and a formerly highly successful business model fell into a state of decay. This economic crisis has threatened core social values of contemporary democracies, such as freedom, diversity and equality...read more

Product Description: News in Europe, Europe in News offers a multifaceted look at contemporary studies in news media that are either based in Europe or report on European issues. The book brings together a range of international scholars, drawn from representative disciplines in media studies and journalism...read more

Product Description: Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation. Through a focus on specific European media sectors, it assesses the impact of new technologies across industries and addresses a wide range of practices, strategies, and challenges facing European media today...read more

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An account of how a few very powerful individuals come to wield control in international communications. The politics, eccentricities and industrial alliances of the moguls, including Maxwell and Murdoch are analyzed in detail.

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Product Description: Electronic Media and Industrialized Nations considers theapproaches that industrialized nations have taken to introduce,develop, control, and use electronic media. Browne compares andcontrasts through detailed case studies, the experiences of severalnations--France, Germany (both East and West), the Soviet Union andRussia, and the Netherlands--by presenting them in light of thepolitical, economic, cultural, geographical, and demographicfactors that both shape and reflect society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)