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Member News

In Memoriam: Wayne Wei-Jen Fu

We are all saddened by the sudden passing of Associate Professor Fu Wei-Jen, Wayne, on August 19, 2012.  Born on January 8, 1970 in Taiwan, Wayne leaves behind his wife and two children.

Associate Professor Wayne Fu was Head of Division (Communication Research) at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from Northwestern University. His academic work centers on the socioeconomic dynamics and consequences of communication and media systems. As a media/information economist, he was particularly fascinated by how communication behaviors and transactions are socially motivated and collectively constructed, as well as their economic ramifications. His outstanding scholarship has gained recognition in leading academic journals and received tremendous support from key government agencies.

As Head of Division, Wayne was a supportive mentor and inspiring leader. His colleagues and peers remember him not only as a brilliant scholar but an easy-going and sincere friend. A dedicated teacher, Wayne has touched the lives of many students in his years of teaching in WKWSCI.

His passing is a great loss to the School and will leave a void in the hearts of everyone who knew him.

Member Publications

James Stanyer
 
Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and Personal Lives of Politicans in Media-Saturated Democracies.
James Stanyer
Polity
PUBLICATION DATES:
October 2012 UK
November 2012 US

ISBN:
Paperback – 978-0-7456-4477-6
Hardback – 978-0-7456-4476-9

It is often remarked that politicians’ private lives are becoming feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. However, there have so far been no genuinely comparative studies examining the personalised nature of political communication. Intimate Politics provides for the first time a systematic comparative analysis of such developments in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources it assesses the extent to which the private lives of politicians have become a feature of political communication in each democracy.  The book provides a comprehensive account of the shifting boundaries between the public and private and whether any developments are universal or more advanced in some democracies than others, and seeks to explain why this might be. Intimate Politics will be of great value for students and scholars of communication and media studies and political science and is required reading for anyone who wants a fuller understanding of the transformation of mediated politics in advanced industrial democracies.

Other News of Interest

Understanding Media Policies
A European Perspective
Edited by: Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

EVANGELIA PSYCHOGIOPOULOU is a lawyer and research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP, Athens), Greece. Her research areas include EU cultural and media policies and human rights protection and she has published widely in international journals. She is also author of The European Court of Human Rights and the Rights of Marginalised Individuals and Minorities in National Context (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010) and The Integration of Cultural Considerations in EU Law and Policies (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008).

How have European media policies traditionally developed and what have been the policy rationales and principles that have shaped them? How are contemporary European media policies formulated and what are the factors and conditions that affect their making? Understanding Media Policies: A European Perspective explores the way media policies are understood, negotiated and applied in Europe. Combining a country-based study in 14 countries with a comparative analysis across various types of media services, this volume investigates the complex array of policy approaches and regulatory practices established to govern the media in Europe.

Featuring contributions from distinguished authors across a range of academic disciplines, the collection is essential reading for policy makers, scholars, researchers and students of media policy.

Contents:
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Recasting the Contours of Media Policy in a Political Context: An Introduction; E.Psychogiopoulou & D.Anagnostou
Media Policy in Belgium: How a Complex Institutional System Deals with Technological Developments; B.Van Besien & P-F.Docquir
Democracy and the Media in Bulgaria: Who Represents the People?; R.Smilova, D.Smilov & G.Ganev
Croatia: A Dynamic Evolvement of Media Policy; P.Bili. & N..vob-.oki.
Danish Media Policy; H.Sondergaard & R.Helles
Media Policy in Estonia: Small Market Paradoxes; U.Loit & H.Harro-Loit
Finnish Media Policy: Less Restrictive, More Directive; H.Kuutti, E.Lauk, P.Nevalainen & R.Sokka
Media Policy in Germany: Main Features and Current Issues; S.Muller & C.Gusy
The Greek Media Policy Revisited; E.Psychogiopoulou, A.Kandyla & D.Anagnostou
Italian Media Policy Under On-going Transition to Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century; F.Casarosa
Struggling with Media Capture: Romania; A.Mungiu-Pippidi & C.Ghinea
Slovakia: Reinventing Media Policy without a Practical Perspective; A..kolkay & M.Hong
Media Policy in Spain: Public Service, Free Competition and some Internal Diversity; S.de la Sierra, E.Guichot, M.Mantini & I.Sobrino
Turkish Media Policy in National Context; D.Kurban & E.Elmas
Media Policy in the United Kingdom: Trust and Distrust in a Converging Media
Environment; R.Craufurd Smith & Y.Stolte
Serving Two Masters: The Roles of the Market and European Politics in the Governance of Media Transformations; K.Sarikakis
References
Index

Reviews:
'This very timely, extremely valuable and well-organised collection of informative analyses of media policies in Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in media policy debates, institutional arrangements and regulatory practices within a wide framework of conflicting interests and differing national approaches to communication challenges. Highly commendable!' - Petros Iosifidis, Director of the MA Media and Communication courses, City University London, UK

'Understanding Media Policies puts together fascinating evidence of the patchwork of national media policy models in Europe, yet it provides a common background for their comparison. This is a valuable contribution to the growing literature in media policy studies, with compelling descriptions of politics shaping media landscapes.'
- Beata Klimkiewicz, The Jagiellonian University, Poland