Denis McQuail
Introduction and Overview
PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Preben Sepstrup
Research into International Television Flows
A Methodological Contribution
Marjorie Ferguson
The Mythology about Globalization
Els De Bens and Hedwig de Smaele
The inflow of American Television Fiction on European Broadcasting Channels Revisited
PART TWO: AUDIENCE
Klaus Bruhn Jensen and Karl Erik Rosengren
Five Traditions in Search of the Audience
Daniel Biltereyst
Resisting American Hegemony
PART THREE: POLICY AND POLITICS
Denis McQuail
Accountability of Meida to Society
Kees Brants
Who's Afraid of Infotainment?
Jay G Blumler
Political Communication Systems All Change
A Response to Kees Brants
Dafna Lemish and Inbal Barzel
`Four Mothers'
The Womb in the Public Sphere
Jeffery Klaehn
A Critical Review and Assessment of Herman and Chomsky's `Propaganda Model'
PART FOUR: JOURNALISM
Thorbj[um]orn Broddason
The Sacred Side of Professional Journalism
Peter Golding
Telling Stories
Sociology, Journalism and the Informed Citizen
Jo Bardoel
Beyond Journalism
A Profession between Information Society and Civil Society
Tiina Laitila
Journalistic Codes of Ethics in Europe
Rossella Savarese
`Infosuasion' in European Newspapers
A Case Study on War in Kosovo
Olessia Koltsova
News Production in Contemporary Russia
PART FIVE: MEDIA CULTURE
Tamar Liebes and Sonia Livingstone
European Soap Operas
The Diversification of Genre
Liesbet van Zoonen
Gendering the Internet
Claims, Controversies and Cultures
Patrick Vyncke
Lifestyle Segmentation
Baris Kilichay nad Mutlu Binarck
Consumer Culture, Islam and the Politics Lifestyle
Fashion for Veiling in Contemporary Turkey