Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-123) and index
TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST -- Television and the concentration of ownership ('old' and 'new' media: no more hugs and high fives) / John Sinclair -- Television and democracy: threats and opportunities / Graeme Turner -- Public service television: challenge, adaptation and survival / Manuel Alvarado -- (The case of New Zealand) / Roger Horrocks -- Sex, television and regulation (the Brass Eye controversy) / Jane Arthurs -- Commercialisation of news and current affairs / Daniel C. Hallin -- (Ethics and television) / Gay Hawkins -- Televising war (September 11) / Andrew Hoskins -- TELEVISION AND DEREGULATED GLOBAL MARKETS -- Globalisation and regulation / Marc Raboy -- Globalisation and national identity (the 2002 World Cup) / John Tomlinson -- Television and local/imagined communities (globalisation of Indian TV: diaspora as imagined community) / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Limits to regulation: StarTV in Asia (global advertising and deregulation) / Amos Owen Thomas -- Europe as a television market (European imports/exports) / Jeanette Steemers -- Global channels (the discovery networks) / John McMurria -- TELEVISION IN THE AGE OF CONVERGENCE -- Into the post-broadcast era / John Sinclair -- (Audience decline) / Graeme Turner -- Evolution not revolution: the ecology of multichannel television / Alison Preston -- Television and the Internet: multimedia, communications / Lelia Green -- (Television news sites) / P. David Marshall -- Is television a distinct medium? TV and convergence / John T. Caldwell -- Television and the mediation of reality: the TV screen as interface (Reality TV) / John T. Caldwell -- NATIONAL TELEVISION SYSTEMS -- Canadian television / Gaëtan Tremblay -- Australian television (Australia's SBS: multicultural television) / Terry Flew, Stuart Cunningham -- Television and the European Union / Ib Bondebjerg -- (Endemol: formats and the future) / John Sinclair -- German television / Rob Burns -- French television (Canal Plus) / Waddick Doyle -- Italian television (RAI and Mediaset) / Milly Buonanno -- Television in Russia (Russia's NTV: 'News is our profession') / Elena Vartanova -- Television in Eastern Europe / Monroe E. Price -- Latin America and Spanish television (US Spanish-language TV: from periphery to centre) / John Sinclair -- Brazilian and Portuguese television / Joseph D. Straubhaar -- Television in India (Cultural invasion) / Keval J. Kumar -- Television in Africa / Keyan G. Tomaselli, William Heuva -- A changing television climate in Southeast Asia (Singapore: managing liberalisation) / Eddie C.Y. Kuo, John E. Keshishoglou -- Television in Japan / Shinichi Saito -- Television in Greater China (Phoenix Satellite TV: a regional broadcaster) / Joseph Man Chan -- Television in the Arab-speaking world (Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel) / Noureddine Miladi
