Issue 1: Popular Culture and Citizenship
Issue 1 edited by Péter Csigó and Peter Dahlgren
Joke Bauwens
Citizens on the Couch: The ‘Us People’-Potential of the Television Experience
Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Markham
‘Public Connection’ and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption
Lajos Császi
Broadening the Concept of Media Rituals: Tabloids as “Low Holidays of Television”
Péter Csigó
Celebratory Politics: Late Modern Promotionalism and Political Communication
Peter Dahlgren
Television and Popular Civic Cultures: Public Sphere Perspectives
Václav Štětka
Globalization, Reality TV and Cultural Inclusion: the Case of the 2005 Czech Search for a Superstar
Issue 2: Media and Democratization - Papers from a CEU summer school
Arne Hintz
Introduction: Media and Democratization – Experiences from Eastern Europe, Turkey and Pakistan
Nikoleta Daskalova
The Bulgarian Media System after 1989: Restructuring in Three Directions
Muhammad Aftab Alam
Broadcast Regulation in Pakistan: The Need for an Enabling Regulatory Regime