Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe.
The intellectual work of the 2007 European
media and communication doctoral summer school.

Edited by Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Kaarle Nordenstreng,
Maren Hartmann, Peeter Vihalemm, Bart Cammaerts & Hannu Nieminen


Table of contents


Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe
Edited by Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Kaarle Nordenstreng,
Maren Hartmann, Peeter Vihalemm, Bart Cammaerts
& Hannu Nieminen
Published by University of Tartu Press
ISSN 1736–3918 (print)
ISBN 978–9949–11–744–4 (print)
ISSN 1736–4752 (PDF)
ISBN 978–9949–11–745–1 (PDF)

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About the book:

This book includes a series of papers that were presented by lecturers and PhD-students at the European Communication and Media Studies Summer School (supported by the EC grant 69935 -IC-1-2005 -EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-7), in August 2007 in Tartu (Estonia).
Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Aukse Balcytiene, Jo Bardoel, Frank Boddin, Bertrand Cabedoche, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, Tomasz Goban -Klas, Todd Graham, Janne Halttu, François Heinderyckx, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Richard Kilborn, Katharina Kleinen-v.Königslöw, Anne Laajalahti, Denis McQuail, Andréa Medrado, Hannu Nieminen, Tobias Olsson, Manuel Parés i Maicas, Gregor Petric, Louise Phillips, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Laurie Schmitt, Zoetanya Sujon, Maja Turnšek, Martine van Selm, and Xin Xin.
The book consists of seven sections: 1/technology, democracy and policy, 2/journalism, 3/communication and participation, 4/participation and citizenship, 5/European perspectives, 6/methodologies, 7/learning and being. It also includes all PhD-student abstracts of the work presented at the Summer School.
The Summer School is organised by the University of Tartu, in collaboration with a consortium of now 19 universities and ECREA. ECREA’s partnership allows PhD - students - that are an individual ECREA member or whose institution is an ECREA institutional member - access to the 2008 Summer Schoo l, which will take place in July 2008 in Tartu.


Contents:

INTRODUCTION: Participation and learning. The intellectual work of the 2007 European media and communication doctoral summer school in Tartu – Nico Carpentier

PART ONE

  • SECTION ONE: TECHNOLOGY, DEMOCRACY AND POLICY
    • Communication and technology: beyond determinism? - Denis McQuail
    • Public service broadcasting in a multimedia environment - Jo Bardoel
    • Towards the democratic regulation of European media and communication - Hannu Nieminen
  • SECTION TWO: JOURNALISM
    • How to meet journalistic aims in European communication? Redefining the potential of online EU news offers - Aukse Balcytiene
    • Information and communication: do these terms constitute absolute opposite practices and concepts? Remarks on Online Municipal Bulletins (OMBs) within the context of everyday life - Bertrand Cabedoche
  • SECTION THREE: COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION
    • Theoretical frameworks for participatory media - Nico Carpentier
    • Community media: important but imperfect. A case study of a community television station in a Brazilian favela - Andréa Medrado
    • Blogs, online forums, public spaces and the extreme right in North Belgium - Bart Cammaerts
    • A tripartite analysis of a civic website. Understanding Reklamsabotage.org - Tobias Olsson
  • SECTION FOUR: PARTICIPATION AND CITIZENSHIP
    • Participating in a representative democracy. Three case studies of Estonian participatory online initiatives - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
    • New media, transformations of participation, and the problem of publicness - Maja Turnšek
    • New citizenships? New technologies, rights and discourses - Zoetanya Sujon
    • What makes an integrated public sphere? Applying the concepts of the research on the European public sphere to the national public sphere of Germany - Katharina Kleinenv. Königslöw
  • SECTION FIVE: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
    • European cultural identity - Manuel Parés i Maicas
    • From forbidden fruit to overabundance. The consumption of US movies and television in Poland - Tomasz Goban-Klas
    • The Iraq crisis and theories of media-state relations. An analysis of Finnish and British press coverage - Janne Halttu
PART TWO

  • SECTION SIX: METHODOLOGIES
    • Research ethics in a virtual world. Guidelines and illustrations - Nicholas W. Jankowski and Martine van Selm
    • Doing discourse ana lysis. A brief introduction to the field - Louise Phillips
    • How to do fieldwork? - Xin Xin
    • ‘So when did you actually decide to become a journalist?’ Interviewing informants as part of a media research project - Richard Kilborn
    • Networks in action. What social network analysis can do for political economy of search engines? - Gregor Petric
  • SECTION SEVEN: LEARNING AND BEING
    • The development of interpersonal communication competence at work - Anne Laajalahti
    • A snapshot from the European educational landscape - Frank Boddin, Todd Graham, Laurie Schmitt and Zoetanya Sujon
    • The academic identity crisis of the European communication researcher - François Heinderyckx
PART THREE
The Summer School student abstracts

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