This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives.

The starting point for this comparative study on the role of English within the media worlds of European youth is the recognition of the increasing importance of communication with peoples from other cultures and countries.

Within the European Union (EU), English has a special role in this regard. While EU policy promotes all languages spoken in member states, and although English is not the most frequently spoken first language, it is the language two Europeans are most likely to use to make themselves understood. This lingua franca phenomenon occurs not only in the fields of science and technology, but also in business and everyday, personal interactions. The media, which plays an important role in intercultural communication, serves as a cultural forum, and both creates culture and transmits representations of other cultures. Its offerings are often highly internationalized, especially in pop culture, films, TV series, and variety shows, which exercise great influence on cultural and linguistic issues in the multilingual, multicultural EU.

The primary goals of "In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth" are to gain insight into the roles of English in and for Europe; to contribute to discussions of the possibilities of transnational media offerings; to better understand the influence of media in foreign language acquisition and of its role in promoting cross cultural understanding across European cultures; and to better understand the role of English media in the construction of the world view of European youth. The research presented on the relationship of media use to language proficiency has relevance to how schools react to and take advantage of mediainfluences on English acquisition. It also has implications for approaches to language policy and planning issues relating to the present and future role of English in the EU, and the re-evaluation of the presence and prevalence of English in the media both as a threat to the notion of a European identity and as a contributing factor in the creation of such an identity.

Researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students of such fields as second language pedagogy and acquisition, language policy, media and communication, and sociolinguistics as well as educational and social psychology will all have an interest in "In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth."

This book is designed to provide insight into the roles of English in and for Europe. The starting point for this comparative study is recognition of the increasing importance of communication with peoples from other cultures and countries. The book contributes to discussions of the possibilities of transnational media offerings, and facilitates a better understanding of the influence of media in foreign language acquisition.

European media is experiencing a paradoxical form of growth: as media outlets surge and new technologies develop, major broadcasting companies are consolidating like never before. In "Broadcasters and Citizens in Europe," an esteemed group of contributors look at what this paradox might mean for the European community. Are broadcasting audiences better informed than they were twenty years ago? And how has the advent of the European Union changed media practices? This essential volume explores a new media world in the context of a continent in flux.

"The book is a good source of information about institutional arrangements developed in European countries in the field of audio-visual policy. It gives an interesting and well-written account of how particular European countries and the European Union try to deal with different problems deriving from the ethical dilemma inscribed in the construction of media systems."--Magdalena Rek, "Journal of Contemporary European Studies""" "Communication scholars will benefit from the focus on research from across Europe along with the theoretical implications. For media policy-makers and members of civic organisations, the taxonomy of instruments will provide an overview for possible policy development. Finally, the clarity with which this book is written will help college students understand the field of media and social responsibility."-- Jarim Kim, "Media International Australia"""

Das Buch ist als Einfuhrung konzipiert, die einen umfassenden und interdisziplinaren Uberblick zum Phanomen Radio bietet. Radio ist das alteste der elektronischen Medien, vermag in der Nutzungsdauer mit dem Fernsehen zu konkurrieren, gleichwohl kommt es uber die Rolle einen Nebenher-Mediums selten hinaus. Dabei ist das Radio in unserem Leben omniprasent, es ist ein besonders variationsreiches und anpassungsfahiges Medium, es besticht durch Flexibilitat, Universalitat und Globalitat. So begegnen wir ihm als Formatradio, Kulturradio, Nachrichtensender, Burgerradio, Campusradio etc.

Wie gehen Jugendliche mit den nachmittaglichen Talkshows um? Die Studie zeigt, wie oft Jugendliche Talkshows nutzen, weshalb sie sie sehen, was sie von den Moderatorinnen und Moderatoren sowie den Gasten halten und wie all dies mit ihrer Sicht von der Wirklichkeit zusammenhangt."

Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Medien und offentlicher Kommunikation ist fur eine zunehmend von Medien gepragte Gesellschaft von grosser Bedeutung. Zu dieser Auseinandersetzung gehoren einerseits die publizistische Medienkritik beispielsweise durch Fernsehkritiken und Medienseiten. Medienkritik in einem weit verstandenen Sinn findet sich andererseits aber auch in der Politik und den Aufsichtsgremien des Rundfunks, bei den Programmveranstaltern, in den medienbezogenen Wissenschaften und - nicht zuletzt - beim Medienpublikum selbst. Der Band, der Beitrage von Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern vereint, will diese medienkritischen Ansatze in ihrer ganzen Breite dokumentieren, diskutieren und so die kritische, offentliche Auseinandersetzung mit Medien starken.