Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1. TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Television and the Concentration of Ownership ('Old' and 'New' Media: No More Hugs and High Fives), John Sinclair (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
Television and Democracy: Threats and Opportunities, Graeme Turner (University of Queensland, Australia)
Public Service Television: Challenge, Adaptation and Survival, Manuel Alvarado (Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College, UK)
(The Case of New Zealand), Roger Horrocks (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Sex, Television and Regulation (The Brass Eye Controversy), Jane Arthurs (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Commercialisation of News and Current Affairs, Daniel C. Hallin (University of California, San Diego, USA)
(Ethics and Television), Gay Hawkins (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Televising War (September 11), Andrew Hoskins (University of Wales, UK)
2. TELEVISION AND DEREGULATED GLOBAL MARKETS
Globalisation and Regulation, Marc Raboy (University of Montreal, Canada)
Globalisation and National Identity (The 2002 World Cup), John Tomlinson (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Television and Local/Imagined Communities (Giobalisation of Indian TV: Diaspora as Imagined Community), Daya Kishan Thussu (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Limits to Regulation: StarTV in Asia (Global Advertising and Deregulation), Amos Owen Thomas (Griffith University, Australia)
Europe as a Television Market (European Imports/Exports), Jeanette Steemers (De Montfort University, UK)
Global Channels (The Discovery Networks), John McMurria (New York University, USA)
3. TELEVISION IN THE AGE OF CONVERGENCE
Into the Post-broadcast Era, John Sinclair (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
(Audience Decline), Graeme Turner (University of Queensland, Australia)
Evolution Not Revolution: The Ecology of Multichannel Television, Alison Preston (University of Stirling, UK)
Television and the Internet: Multimedia, Communications, Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
(Television News Sites), P. David Marshall (Northeastern University, USA)
Is Television a Distinct Medium? TV and Convergence, John T. Caldwell (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Television and the Mediation of Reality: The TV Screen as Interface (Reality TV), John T. Caldwell (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
4. NATIONAL TELEVISION SYSTEMS
Canadian Television, Ga«tan Tremblay (University of Quebec, Canada)
Australian Television (Australia's SBS: Multicultural Television), Terry Flew and Stuart Cunningham (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Television and the European Union, Ib Bondebjerg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
(Endemol: Formats and the Future), John Sinclair (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
German Television, Rob Burns (University of Warwick, UK)
French Television (Canal Plus), Waddick Doyle (American University of Paris, France)
Italian Television (RAI and Mediaset), Milly Buonanno (University of Florence, Italy)
Television in Russia (Russia's NTV: 'News is our profession'), Elena Vartanova (Moscow State University, Russia)
Television in Eastern Europe, Monroe E. Price (Yeshiva University, USA)
Latin American and Spanish Television (US Spanish-language TV: From Periphery to Centre), John Sinclair (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
Brazilian and Portuguese Television, Joseph D. Straubhaar (University of Texas, USA)
Television in India (Cultural Invasion), Keval J. Kumar (Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, India)
Television in Africa, Keyan G. Tomaselli and William Heuva (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
A changing Television Climate in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Managing Liberalisation), Eddie C. Y. Kuo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and John E. Keshishoglou (Ithaca College, USA)
Television in Japan, Shinichi Saito (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan)
Television in Greater China (Phoenix Satellite TV: A Regional Broadcaster), Joseph Man Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Television in the Arab-speaking World (Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel), Noureddine Miladi (University of Westminster, UK)
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