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Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation. Through a focus on specific European media sectors, it assesses the impact of new technologies across industries and addresses a wide range of practices, strategies, and challenges facing European media today. The Euromedia Research Group has more than twenty years of experience in the observation of trends affecting media today, and this book marks the strong continuation of that long tradition.
About the author
Josef Trappel is professor for media policy and media economics and head of the department of communication studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is director of the Erasmus+ Master Programme Digital Communication Leadership, and convenor of the Euromedia Research Group. His research interests are European and national media and platform policy, media and democracy, as well as media innovation.
Contact: University of Salzburg, Rudolfskai 42, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.
Werner A. Meier (Ph.D. University of Zurich, Switzerland) is Professor Emeritus of
Communication and Media Studies at the University of Zurich, where he taught and conducted
research from 1977 until 2014. He is a critical observer of the media landscape in Switzerland.
His main areas of interests are media structures, media policy and media sociology.Leen dÆHaenens is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Jeanette Steemers is professor in the School of Media, Arts, and Design at the University of Westminster, Harrow.
Barbara Thomass is professor in the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University.
Summary
Provides a theoretical and contextual analysis which highlights the major themes and issues affecting European media. This book maps the scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities, assessing the impact of various technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organisations and strategies.
