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European Media, Cultural Integration And Globalisation

European Media, Cultural Integration and Globalisation.
Reflections on the ESF-programme Changing Media - Changing Europe


Ib Bondebjerg



Printed in Nordicom Review, vol. 22:1, june 2001(see also www.nordicom.gu.se)

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The Changing Media – Changing Europe project was launched January 1 2000 and will run for 5 years until
January 1 2005. The project is financed by the European research councils for the humanities and social sciences under European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg. The programme is an interdisciplinary and comparative, cross-European research project co-directed by professor Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen, DK and professor Peter Golding (University of Loughborough, UK), representing humanities media research and social science media research. The project organises appr. 60 researchers from 18 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Denmark,United Kingdom, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Schwitzerland and Sweden) and they are organised in 4 research teams, each headed by a team-leader:

· Team 1. Citizenship and consumerism: Media, the public sphere and the market. (Team Leader: Professor Jostein Gripsrud, Norway, email: jostein.gripsrud@media.uib.no).

· Team 2. Culture and Commerce: Media policy between culture and commerce. (Team leader: Professor Els de Bens, Belgium, e-mail: els.debens@rug.ac.be).

· Team 3. Convergence – Fragmentation: Media and the information society. (Team leader: Professor Jean-Claude Burgelmann, Belgium(e-mail: jcburgel@vub.ac.be).

· Team 4: Homogenisation-diversity: Media and cultural identities. (Team leader: Professor William Uricchio, Netherlands/USA (e-mail: w.uricchio@let.uu.nl, uricchio@mit.edu).



The teams meet twice a year for workshops, where they develop and discuss...