Of public and popular interests / Liesbet van Zoonen, Joke Hermes and Kees Brants. I. The classic debate on media regulation. New technologies and old problems : evaluating and regulating media performance in the "information age" / Peter Golding
Is broadcasting policy becoming redundant? / Karen Siune
Television programming : more diversity, more convergence? / Els de Bens
Diversity revisited : towards a critical rational model of media diversity / Jan van Cuilenburg. II. In search of the public interest. Wrestling with the public interest in organized communications / Jay Blumler
World communication : conflicting aspirations for the twenty-first century / Cees J. Hamelink
The performance of the sponge : mass communication theory enters the postmodern world / Ien Ang. III. The ethics of popular journalism. Enhancing the civic ideal in television journalism / Peter Dahlgren
Reality television and social responsibility theory / Jan Wieten
The ethics of making private life public / Liesbet van Zoonen
Professional ethics : between fortress journalism and cosmopolitan democracy / Kaarle Nordenstreng. IV. The politics of popular culture. Stories of violence and the public interest / George Gerbner
Sports reporting : race, difference and identity / Andrew Tudor
Cultural citizenship and popular fiction / Joke Hermes. V. Back to the future. With the benefit of hindsight : old nightmares and new dreams / Kees Brants.
