Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3051: The Media in Europe

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Ariazza Ibarra, K.; Kuhn, R. and Nowak, E. (Eds) (2015) Public service media in Europe: A comparative approach. London: Routledge.

D’Haenens, L.; Trappel, J. and Soussa, H. (Eds) (2018) Comparative media policy, regulation and governance in Europe, Chicago: Intellect.

Donders, Karen, Caroline Pauwels, Jan Loisen (eds), (2014) The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy, London, Palgrave Macmillan. http://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2642145

Hallin, Daniel and Paolo Mancini (2005) Comparing Media Systems. Cambridge University Press.

Evens, T. & Donders, K. (2018) Platform power and policy in transforming television markets. New York, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Humphreys, Peter (1996) Mass Media Policy in Western Europe, Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Lowe, G.F.; Van den Bulck, H. and Donders, K. (2018) Public service media in the networked society. Göteborg, Nordicom.

Rooke, Richard (2009) European Media in the Digital Age. Longman.

Trappel, Josef Media in Europe today (2011) Euromedia Research Group.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (2021) http://communication.oxfordre.com/page/past-updates/

Valcke, Peggy, Miklos Sukosd, and Robert Picard (2015) (eds), Media Pluralism and Diversity (Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business). http://encore.exeter.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3274580