[ecrea] New Book: Trends in Communication Policy Research

The newest addition to the ECREA Book Series, «Trends in Communication 
Policy Research: New Theories, Methods & Subjects», has been released.

«Literate, sophisticated, and stimulating» – Prof. Sandra Braman

«A real service to the field and a pioneering way to organize innovative 
thought.» – Prof. Monroe E. Price

«Communication policy research is a notoriously under-theorized field. 
This book puts that right.» – Prof. Robin Mansell

This book, edited by Natascha Just and Manuel Puppis (IPMZ, University 
of Zurich), brings together international experts in communication 
policy research to tackle ongoing changes and challenges. It gives 
insights into new theories, methods and subjects and thereby provides 
important contributions to pressing communication policy issues. «Trends 
in Communication Policy Research» is an ideal source of information for 
scholars, professionals, students and anyone interested in communication 
policy and regulation.

The ECREA book series makes a major contribution to the theory, 
research, practice and policy literature in the field of Communication 
and Media Studies. Book proposals are refereed and the contributors have 
been selected to provide a breadth of understanding of the concerns in 
question.

Title info
Full title: Trends in Communication Policy Research: New Theories, 
Methods & Subjects
Editors: Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis
ISBN: 9781841504674 (Hardback); 9781841506746 (Paperback)
Published by: Intellect | Publication: 2012 | 426 pages
Price: £55/ $80 (Hardback); £24.95/$40 (Paperback)

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis

Chapter 2: Communication Policy Research: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Natascha Just & Manuel Puppis

PART I: NEW THEORIES

Chapter 3: Prospects and Pitfalls of Douglass North’s New Institutional 
Economics Approach for Global Media Policy Research
Jan Loisen

Chapter 4: ‘It’s the Idea, Stupid!’ How Ideas Challenge Broadcasting 
Liberalization
Matthias Künzler

Chapter 5: The Accountability and Legitimacy of Regulatory Agencies in 
the Communication Sector
Manuel Puppis & Martino Maggetti

Chapter 6: Change and Divergence in Regulatory Regimes: A Comparative 
Study of Product Placement Regulation
Avshalom Ginosar

Chapter 7: Technologies as Institutions: Rethinking the Role of 
Technology in Media Governance Constellations
Christian Katzenbach

Chapter 8: Veto Players and the Regulation of Media Pluralism: A New 
Paradigm for Media Policy Research?
Ulrike Klinger

PART II: NEW METHODS

Chapter 9: A Political Scientist’s Contribution to the Comparative Study 
of Media Systems in Europe: A Response to Hallin and Mancini
Peter Humphreys

Chapter 10: What We Talk about When We Talk about Document Analysis
Kari Karppinen & Hallvard Moe

Chapter 11: Qualitative Network Analysis: An Approach to Communication 
Policy Studies
Maria Löblich & Senta Pfa!-Rüdiger

Chapter 12: Towards a Media Policy Process Analysis Model and Its 
Methodological Implications
Hilde Van den Bulck

PART III: NEW SUBJECTS

Convergence

Chapter 13: Battle of the Paradigms: Defining the Object and Objectives 
of Media/Communication Policy

Karol Jakubowicz
Chapter 14: Content Control and Digital Television: Policy, Technology 
and Industry
Andrew T. Kenyon, Julian Thomas & Jason Bosland

Chapter 15: Regulating and Monitoring Online Activities of Public 
Service Broadcasters: The Case of Switzerland
Natascha Just, Michael Latzer & Florian Saurwein

State Aid

Chapter 16: Conditional Access for Public Service Broadcasting to New 
Media Platforms: EU State-Aid Policy vis-à-vis Public Service 
Broadcasting – the Dutch Case
Jo Bardoel & Marit Vochteloo

Chapter 17: Film Support in the EU: The Uteca Case and the Future 
Challenges for the ‘Main Characters’
Lucia Bellucci

Chapter 18: New Approaches to the Development of Telecommunications 
Infrastructures in Europe? The Evolution of European Union Policy for 
Next-Generation Networks
Seamus Simpson

Participation, Power & the Role of Gender

Chapter 19: Public Service Television in European Union Countries: Old 
Issues, New Challenges in the ‘East’ and the ‘West’
Peter Bajomi-Lazar, Vaclav Stetka & Miklós Sükösd

Chapter 20: Civil Society and Media Governance: A Participatory Approach
Pietro Rossi & Werner A. Meier

Chapter 21: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone: Unfolding Gender Conscious 
Research for Communication and Cultural Policy Theory
Katharine Sarikakis

Notes on Contributors

For more information on this book please visit Intellect's website
Or for more information on the European Communication Research and 
Education Association visit their website
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Mag. Dr. Natascha Just | Senior Research and Teaching Associate | 
Division on Media Change & Innovation | IPMZ Institute of Mass 
Communication and Media Research | University of Zurich | Andreasstrasse 
15 | 8050 Zurich | Switzerland | e: (n.just /at/ ipmz.uzh.ch) | t: +41 (0) 44 
6352047 | f: +41 (0) 44 6344934 | h: http://www.mediachange.ch 
http://www.ipmz.uzh.ch


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