1st Edition
Media Pluralism in the Digital Era Legal, Economic, Social, and Political Lessons Learnt from Europe
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Monitoring media pluralism in a comparative manner: A holistic and evolving instrument
Elda Brogi, Beata Klimkiewicz and Pier Luigi Parcu
Chapter 2: A decade of digital transformation: Pluralism between the media and digital platforms
Iva Nenadić, Roberta Carlini and Orlin Spassov
Chapter 3: Towards a resilient public sphere: Fighting disinformation and promoting media literacy
Konrad Bleyer-Simon, Ville Manninen, and Auksė Balčytienė
Chapter 4: Threats to Press Freedom and Journalists' Safety: A Comparative Study of Greece, Slovakia, and Spain
Mária Žuffová, Lambrini Papadopoulou, and Jaume Suau Martinez
Chapter 5: Understanding the democratic role of media ownership transparency
Danielle Borges and Christophoros Christophorou
Chapter 6: Sustainability of the European media market(s)
Konrad Bleyer-Simon, Paško Bilić, and Franck Rebillard
Chapter 7: Media viability vs Market plurality: A comparative perspective: The growing tendency towards media ownership concentration in the digital ecosystem
Roberta Carlini, Francisco Rui Cádima, Roderick Flynn, and Jan Christopher Kalbhenn
Chapter 8: Tools and strategies of political capture of the media in Europe
Matteo Trevisan, Václav Štětka, and Marko Milosavljevič
Chapter 9: Evolution of space and geography in media pluralism: A typology of community media in the European Union
Marie Palmer and Josef Seethaler
Chapter 10: Far from gender balance: The persisting underrepresentation of women in the media
Marie Palmer and Marína Urbániková
Chapter 11: Public service media in Latvia, Luxembourg, and Malta: A struggle for independence and relevance in the digital age
Stephanie Lukasik, Raphael Kies, Anda Rožukalne, and Louiselle Vassallo
Chapter 12: The role of alternative news media online for media pluralism in Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey
Sofia Verza, Daniela Brkić, Tirse Erbaysal Filibeli, Irina Milutinović, Snežana Trpevska and Kristina Voko
Chapter 13: The future of monitoring and safeguarding media pluralism in Europe
Elda Brogi, Iva Nenadić, Pier Luigi Parcu, and Peggy Valcke
Index
Biography
Elda Brogi is part-time Professor at the European University Institute and Scientific Coordinator of the EUI’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF). She has worked at the CMPF since its establishment and initiated and developed the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor. Her main interests span constitutional, European, media, and internet law. She holds a PhD in Public Law and Constitutional Law from the University La Sapienza, Rome. She teaches Communication Law at the University of Florence.
Iva Nenadić is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the European University Institute’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. She has been a part of the central team for the Media Pluralism Monitor, overseeing methodological improvements and regular implementations since 2016. She specialises in researching the intersection of technology and journalism, media policy and regulation, platform governance, as well as topics like computational propaganda and disinformation.
Pier Luigi Parcu has been part-time Professor at the European University Institute since 2010. He is the founder and the Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom whose flagship project is the Media Pluralism Monitor. He is also the Director of the Centre for a Digital Society. In the field of media, his research focuses on the democratic and economic challenges associated with digital platforms, as part of his broader interest in innovation dynamics in the digital economy and in emerging technologies.
