Media Between Culture and Commerce

In the face of declining newspaper sales, challenges from online competitors, and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs, media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance.Media between Culture and Commercebrings together a group of European media experts to address the consequences of a system that is increasingly powered by global media conglomerates that set the pace of news and information. As national borders blur and the corporations behind journalism and broadcasting continue to merge, this timely volume will prove a necessary resource to those interested in European media studies and globalization.

Els de Bens is chair of the Department of Mass Communication Research at Ghent University and a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.