Table of Contents

Preface 1 Paradigm Lost? 2 Media Studies and Research on Information and Communication Technologies in the UK 3 The Language of Advantage: Satellite Television in Western Europe 4 The Prognosis for Satellite Television in the UK 5 White and Green and not much Re(a)d: The 1988 White Paper on Broadcasting Policy 6 Broadband Black Death Cuts Queues: The Information Society and the UK 7 Wall to Wall Dallas? The US-UK Trade in Television 8 Broadcasting and National Culture in Canada 9 National Culture: A Contradiction in Terms? 10 Walling Germany with Brass: Theoretical Paradigms in British Studies of Television News 11 Seeing is Believing: The Ideology of Naturalism