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.

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