Summary
Contents
'This comprehensive, easily accessible book will be a helpful companion to students and researchers alike... [a] superb guide to "The Media in Europe”.' - Journal of European Affairs Completely rewritten, the Third Edition of this successful guide to European media systems has also been expanded to include Central and Eastern Europe as well as Western Europe. Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study.The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Group, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe.
Austria
Austria
National Profile
Austria is located in the heart of Europe and is considered one of the ‘bridges’ between East and West because of its permanently neutral status since independence after the World War II. With its small home market of around 8 million inhabitants living in a surface area of 84,000 km2, Austria is not one of the powerful economic forces in Europe. Its once important role in international diplomacy has declined over the years but, still, Austria hosts several departments of the United Nations in the International Centre in the capital, Vienna.
Austria shares borders with Germany, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Deriving from the time when Vienna was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, there are ...