[eccr] New Book Announcement: The Challenge of the European Parliament

>PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
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>are pleased to announce a new book by
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>Katharine Sarikakis
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>POWERS IN MEDIA POLICY
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>The Challenge of the European Parliament
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>Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2004. 
>212 pp., 11 tables
>ISBN 3-03910-146-3 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6956-4 pb.
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>sFr. 60.00 / EUR* 41.20 / EUR** 38.50 / £ 27.00 / US-$ 45.95
>* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
>** does not include VAT
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>Contrary to widespread rhetoric of deregulation, the media are objects of 
>increased global policy. Generators of cultural spheres, within which 
>social consensus is formed, the media are shaped by national and 
>supranational agencies of questionable legitimacy. Policy delineates the 
>form and content of global communications impinging on cultures, 
>discourses and consciousness; yet, citizen representation in processes of 
>policy-making remains fragmentary.
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>In this insightful study, the author examines the role of the European 
>Parliament, as the only international organisation directly accountable to 
>and elected by citizens, in the formation of media policy. This critical 
>account of supranational representation identifies the structural and 
>ideological dynamics of powers in European media policy. Through detailed 
>examination of major policies, the author demonstrates the conditions 
>under which supranational representation can offer a resisting force to 
>unaccountable global powers, and the ways in which it can contribute to 
>system transformation and defend communication spaces.
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>Contents:
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>Institutional structures and European integration - Governance and 
>parliamentary representation - Representational politics, media and policy 
>- Constructing the broadcasting market - Policies of the extremes? The 
>cases of public service broadcasting and media ownership concentration - 
>Media policy and the context of supranational parliamentary representation 
>- Transformations: global interdependence and governance.
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>The Author:
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>Katharine Sarikakis (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in International 
>Communications and Media Policy at Coventry University. Her research 
>interests are in the area of globalisation and in particular, 
>international political economic aspects and the role of institutions in 
>media policy, technology and gender.
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