Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextualising European Media Policy in the Twenty-first Century / Manuel Puppis, Seamus Simpson and Hilde Van den Bulck -- Understanding Media Policy in an Environment of Media Convergence. Beyond the Buzz: Why Media Policy Researchers should Study Teletext / Hallvard Moe and Hilde Van den Bulck -- Electronic Press Turning a New Leaf for Convergent Media Content Regulation? / Irini Katsirea -- #Tweetgate: When Public Service Broadcasters and Twitter Go to War: An Irish Perspective / Jennifer Kavanagh -- The Relevance of Public Regulatory Intervention in Media Policy. Is Self-Regulation Failing Children and Young People? Assessing the Use of Alternative Regulatory Instruments in the Area of Social Network Sites / Eva Lievens -- Media Policy and Regulation in Times of Crisis / Corinna Wenzel and Stefan Gadringer and Josef Trappel -- Digital Switchover: EU State Aid, Public Subsidies and Enlargement / Mark Wheeler -- Regulatory Policy Issues in Advanced Communication Network Environments. New Networks, Old Market Structures: The Race to Next Generation Networks in the EU and Calls for a New Regulatory Paradigm / Maria Michalis -- The Net Neutrality Debate from a Public Sphere Perspective / Francesca Musiani and Maria Löblich -- Access to the Network as a Universal Service Concept for European Information Society / Olga Batura -- Lessons for European Media Policy from Cases beyond the EU. Between Norms and Accomplishment: Lessons for EU Media Policy From EU Enlargements / Beata Klimkiewicz -- Convergent Media Policy: Reflections Based Upon the Australian Case / Terry Flew -- Communications and Social Inclusion: Universal Service Policies in Europe and Latin America / Maria Stella Righettini and Michele Tonellotto.

This collection discusses the main conceptual and practical issues which have framed the academic analysis of communication and media policies in Europe over the course of at least the last decade, exploring the key issues that can set the agenda for the short to medium term in communication and media policy in Europe. In addition to their empirical subject matter, the chapters engage with questions such as: Have new/enriched theoretical and conceptual understandings emerged to explain recent and current phenomena in European media policy? How are these constituted? To what extent, and how, are they incremental or path-breaking in nature? What has their key contribution been and to what extent are they robust and flexible enough to help us understand other areas of communications policy now and into the future?