Routledge handbook of media law / edited by Monroe E. Price, Stefaan Verhulst and Libby Morgan.

p.1. Media policy and institutional design -- Tracing media policy decisions : of stakeholders, networks and advocacy coalitions / Hilde van den Bulck -- Rational legal authority, formal and informal rules in the news media / Paolo Mancini -- "Club government" and independence in media regulation / Thomas Gibbons -- Mainstreaming EU cultural policies internally and externally : caught between subsidiarity and global subsidiarity? / Jan Loisen, Caroline Powels

Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective. The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence; rather it provides a better understanding of the forces that generate media rules, norms, and standards against the background of major transformations in the way information is mediated as a result of democratization, economic development, cultural change, globalization and technological innovation.The book addresses a range of issues including: media law and evolving concepts of democracy; network neutrality and traffic management; public service broadcasting in Europe an the United States; theories and approaches in media governance; cultural development, diversity and protection.