Item Description: | 'Based on a particular selection of the papers presented at aninternational conference of communication researchers held in Dublin inJune 1993'--Pref. Contents: 1. Introduction: Communication and the Pursuit of Democracy in the NewEuropean and Global Order / Farrel Corcoran and Paschal Preston -- 2.Re-regulating Television After Communism: A Comparative Analysis ofPoland, Hungary and the Czech Republic / Colin Sparks and Anna Reading-- 3. From State Control to Commodification: Media Democratisation inEast and Central Europe / Slavko Splichal -- 4. Unpacking the Conceptof Competition in Media Policymaking: The Case of Austria and Ireland /Paschal Preston and Andrea Grisold -- 5. Recent Trends inCoproductions: The Demise of the National / Sharon Strover -- 6. TheDialectics of Identity Politics: The Case of Regionalist Television inSpain / Richard Maxwell -- 7. The Political Economy of News Flowswithin Europe: News Agencies, Foreign Exchange Dealing, and theEuropean Monetary Crisis of September 1992 / Michael Palmer -- 8.Jurassic Park and the GATT: Hollywood and Europe - An Update / JanetWasko. |