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AUSTRIA’S MEDIA LANDSCAPE
Challenges, Changes, and Future Directions The media market’s viability is at risk. While legacy media in Austria is (still) highly valued in an international comparison, the change in media usage habits brought about by the Internet and its permanent availability, mainly via smartphones, has had just as drastic an impact as the entry…
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ON THE RELEVANCE OF COMMUNITY MEDIA FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
by Helmut Peissl & Andrea Sedlaczek (English abstract) Throughout Europe, over 2,200 community radios and over 520 community TVs can be identified, which set themselves apart from both public service broadcasters as well as private commercial media. Community media are characterised by their non-commercial and participatory nature, being created by…
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PREMATURE CONCLUSIONS? WHAT (WE THINK) WE KNOW ABOUT EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND MEDIA
by Kirill Filimonov (Charles University) Discussions about the deficit – or, often portrayed more dramatically, crisis – of European democracy persist from various angles, from critique of populism to EU bureaucracy. These claims often rely on reductive definitions and assumptions that remain largely unexplored. Indeed, our understanding of democracy and media…