Liberalizing the European Media: Politics, Regulation, and the Public Sphere
Shalini Venturelli
Abstract
Arguing that the problem of political rights of information and participation in the public sphere is the central question involving the development of the European Union, this book offers an assessment of the political, cultural, and economic basis of policies for constructing a European Information Society. The book is a result of extensive research on transformation of European media and politics in the context of integration and constitutional reform. It also places the events in the theoretical context of liberalism and theories of the public sphere. The author examines five of the princi ... More
Keywords: European media, politics, integration, constitutional reform, liberalism, public sphere, information society, intellectual property rights, audiovisual policy, freedom of expression
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1998 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198233794 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198233794.001.0001 |
