European Culture and the Media

The series arises from a research program of the same name by the European Science Foundation. It deals with the tension between citizenship and consumerism, the dichotomy and relation between culture and commerce, problems of convergence and fragmentation in the development of media technology globally and in Europe, and media and cultural identities. In the first volume, scholars of media and communications explore such topics as the mediatization of a global toy industry, media coverage of Bosnian refugees and illegal migration, and reasons and implications of Silvio Berlusconi's 2001 electoral success. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR