Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, and changes in media policies, this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media, Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies, as well as for those studying sociology and political science.

Jostein Gripsrud is professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. 

Lennart Weibull is professor of media research in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Gothenburg.