THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES AND DEMOCRACY IN AN ENLARGED EUROPE THE INTELLECTUAL WORK OF THE 2007 EUROPEAN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL Edited by Nico Carpentier Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt Kaarle Nordenstreng Maren Hartmann Peeter Vihalemm Bart Cammaerts Hannu Nieminen The Intensive Programme in Media and Communication: Enlarging Europe – Enlarging Participation is supported by the Socrates Erasmus IP project (contract number: 69935-IC-1-2004-EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-6), the European Communication Research and Education Association (www.ecrea.eu), the University of Tartu – the Department of Journalism and Communication (www.jrnl.ut.ee) and a consortium of 19 universities. ISSN 1736–3918 (print) ISBN 978–9949–11–744–4 (print) ISSN 1736–4752 (PDF) ISBN 978–9949–11–745–1 (PDF) Copyright: Authors 2007 Tartu University Press www.tyk.ee Table of contents INTRODUCTION Introduction: Participation and learning. The intellectual work of the 2007 European media and communication doctoral summer school in Tartu......................................................................................................... 11 Nico Carpentier PART ONE SECTION ONE: TECHNOLOGY, DEMOCRACY AND POLICY Communication and technology: beyond determinism?...................... 27 Denis McQuail Public service broadcasting in a multimedia environment.................. 41 Jo Bardoel Towards the democratic regulation of European media and communication........................................................................................... 55 Hannu Nieminen SECTION TWO: JOURNALISM How to meet journalistic aims in European communication? Redefining the potential of online EU news offers................................ 75 Auksė Balčytienė Information and communication: do these terms constitute absolute opposite practices and concepts? Remarks on Online Municipal Bulletins (OMBs) within the context of everyday life........................... 87 Bertrand Cabedoche SECTION THREE: COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION Theoretical frameworks for participatory media................................... 105 Nico Carpentier 6 THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES Community media: important but imperfect. A case study of a community television station in a Brazilian favela................................ 123 Andréa Medrado Blogs, online forums, public spaces and the extreme right in North Belgium........................................................................................................ 137 Bart Cammaerts A tripartite analysis of a civic website. Understanding Reklamsabotage.org................................................................................... 153 Tobias Olsson SECTION FOUR: PARTICIPATION AND CITIZENSHIP Participating in a representative democracy. Three case studies of Estonian participatory online initiatives................................................. 171 Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt New media, transformations of participation, and the problem of publicness................................................................................................ 187 Maja Turnšek New citizenships? New technologies, rights and discourses............... 201 Zoetanya Sujon What makes an integrated public sphere? Applying the concepts of the research on the European public sphere to the national public sphere of Germany......................................................................... 219 Katharina Kleinen-v.Königslöw SECTION FIVE: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES European cultural identity........................................................................ 237 Manuel Parés i Maicas From forbidden fruit to overabundance. The consumption of US movies and television in Poland.................................................... 249 Tomasz Goban-Klas The Iraq crisis and theories of media-state relations. An analysis of Finnish and British press coverage...................................................... 255 Janne Halttu TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 PART TWO SECTION SIX: METHODOLOGIES Research ethics in a virtual world. Guidelines and illustrations......... 275 Nicholas W. Jankowski and Martine van Selm Doing discourse analysis. A brief introduction to the field.................. 285 Louise Phillips How to do fieldwork?................................................................................ 295 Xin Xin ‘So when did you actually decide to become a journalist?’ Interviewing informants as part of a media research project............... 307 Richard Kilborn Networks in action. What social network analysis can do for political economy of search engines?...................................................................... 317 Gregor Petrič SECTION SEVEN: LEARNING AND BEING The development of interpersonal communication competence at work......................................................................................................... 335 Anne Laajalahti A snapshot from the European educational landscape......................... 347 Frank Boddin, Todd Graham, Laurie Schmitt and Zoetanya Sujon The academic identity crisis of the European communication researcher..................................................................................................... 357 François Heinderyckx PART THREE THE SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENT ABSTRACTS (in alphabetical order) Itir Akdogan................................................................................................ 365 Kathleen Arendt.......................................................................................... 366 Laura Aymerich Franch............................................................................. 367 Cicek Bacik................................................................................................... 368 Richard Baerug............................................................................................ 370 Sergio Barrera Perea................................................................................... 371 Frank Boddin............................................................................................... 372 Katrin Bornemann...................................................................................... 373 Jānis Buholcs................................................................................................ 375 8 THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES Jeremy Depauw.......................................................................................... 377 Manuel Dupuy-Salle.................................................................................. 378 Caroline Düvel............................................................................................ 379 Wilberforce S. Dzisah................................................................................. 381 Ahmed el Gody........................................................................................... 382 Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard..................................................................... 383 Todd Steven Graham................................................................................. 384 Riikka Haikarainen..................................................................................... 385 Janne Halttu................................................................................................. 386 Wim Hannot................................................................................................ 387 Maarit Jaakkola........................................................................................... 388 Alenka Jelen................................................................................................. 389 Katharina Kleinen-v.Königslöw............................................................... 390 Veronika Kroenert...................................................................................... 392 Anne Laajalahti........................................................................................... 393 Otim Lucima................................................................................................ 394 Andréa Medrado........................................................................................ 395 Floris Mueller.............................................................................................. 396 Magdalena Pitala........................................................................................ 397 Chloë Salles.................................................................................................. 398 Laurie Schmitt............................................................................................. 399 Iren Schulz................................................................................................... 400 Núria Simelio Solà...................................................................................... 402 Helle Sjøvaag............................................................................................... 402 Aleksander Sašo Slaček Brlek................................................................... 403 Zoe Sujon..................................................................................................... 404 Janna Svendsen........................................................................................... 406 Ilija T. Tomanic............................................................................................ 407 Anna Tous Rovirosa................................................................................... 408 Maja Turnšek............................................................................................... 409 Ira Virtanen.................................................................................................. 411 About the authors....................................................................................... 406 IINNTTRROODDUUCCTTIIOONN Poster production phase © Anne Laajalahti