Democracy and communication in the new Europe : change and continuity in East and West / edited by Farrel Corcoran, Paschal Preston.

"Based on a particular selection of the papers presented at an international conference of communication researchers held in Dublin in June 1993"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : communication and the pursuit of democracy in the new European and global order / Farrel Corcoran and Paschal Preston -- Re-regulating television after communism : a comparative analysis of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic / Colin Sparks and Anna Reading -- From state control to commodification : media democratisation in east and central Europe / Slavko Splichal -- Unpacking the concept of competition in media policymaking : the case of Austria and Ireland / Paschal Preston and Andrea Grisold -- Recent trends in coproductions : the demise of the national / Sharon Strover -- Dialectics of identity politics : the case of regionalist television in Spain / Richard Maxwell -- Political economy of news flows within Europe : news agencies, foreign exchange dealing, and the European monetary crisis of September 1992 / Micheal Palmer -- Jurassic Park and the GATT : Hollywood and Europe--an update / Janet Wasko -- President's men : television, gender and the public sphere in central and eastern Europe / Anna Reading -- Communicating sameness and containing diversity : communication policies and ethno-national policies in the EU / Charles Husband -- Reform of communications policies in Greece / Natasha Constantelou -- Local versus global in the modernisation of central and eastern European telecommunications : a case study of US corporate investments / Andrew Calabrese -- Development of telecommunications in transitional markets / Jill Hills and Josef Klucka -- Competition in the local loop : toward an anticyclical competition policy / Jan Van Cuilenberg and Paul Slaa.