[ecrea] Book Announcement: European Media Policy for the Twenty First Century - Assessing the Past, Setting Agendas for the Future

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Book Announcement:

European Media Policy for the Twenty First Century - Assessing the Past, 
Setting Agendas for the Future.
New York and London: Routledge. 252pp (2016).
Seamus Simpson, Manuel Puppis and Hilde Van den Bulck (Eds)


About the Book
Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of 
media systems

in Europe and beyond. This book brings together the work of a range of 
leading media

policy scholars to provide inroads to a better understanding of how 
effective media policies

can be developed to ensure a healthy communication sector that 
contributes to the

well-being of individual citizens, as well as to a more democratic 
society. Faced with a

general atmosphere of disillusionment with the European project, one of 
the core questions

tackled by the volume’s contributors is: what scope is there for 
European media

policy that can exist beyond the national level? Uniquely, the volume’s 
chapters are

structured around four key policy themes: media convergence; the 
continued role and

position of public regulatory intervention in media policy; policy 
issues arising from the

development of new electronic communication network environments; and 
lessons for

European media policy from cases beyond the EU. In its chapters, the 
volume provides

enriched understandings of the role and significance of policy actors, 
institutions, structures,

instruments and processes in communication and media policy.


The Editors:
Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy at the University of 
Salford, Manchester,

UK.  Manuel Puppis is Associate Professor in Media Systems and Media 
Structures in the

Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM), University of 
Fribourg,

Switzerland. Hilde Van den Bulck  is full Professor of Communication 
Studies and head of

the Media, Policy and Culture research group at the University of 
Antwerp, Belgium.







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