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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 What Is 'Sufficient' Plurality? -- 2 Diversity, Distribution, and Definitions of 'Media' -- 3 Plurality and Public Service Broadcasting: Why and How PSBs Deserve Protection -- Part II -- 4 Plurality and Local Media -- 5 Hyperlocal Media and the News Marketplace -- Part III -- 6 Media Ownership and the Political Economy of Research in US Media Policy Making -- 7 From Media Policy to 'Big' Media Policy: The Battle for Pluralism in Australia

The media industry is in the midst of a 'perfect storm', as recession, fragmented audiences and the shift of press advertising to the internet impact upon it. This report analyses the effects of these changes on the industry, and how Government and regulatory intervention can best enable it to move forward in a changing world.

The names we use for our own species represent general attitudes, many of which were adumbrated by the Greeks. Linnaeus called us Homo sapiens, or thinking man, and his image may be represented by Athene, the goddess of wisdom and my favourite deity. Equally justified is Homo faber, man the maker, represented by Vulcan or Hephaistos. Another aspect of man has been given confusing prominence recently; for man the warrior I have had to invent a name, Homo pugnax—Mars or Ares. Homo ludens has also been proposed (Huizinga, 1970); his counterpart was perhaps Hermes.

AbstractThe authors present an overview of mental health service use among the elderly. Research on factors associated with service use and barriers to appropriate care are summarized.

The Enlightenment and religion: The myths of modernity offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant deist movement that formed the 'intellectual solvent' of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched. As a consequence more traditional forces for religious change have been given little or no attention. The book also raises hitherto neglected but fundamental methodological issues relating to the study of the eighteenth century and the ability of 'interested' contemporaries to mislead posterity. Given the current pervasive topicality of notions of modernity and postmodernity in academia, this book advances a very important discussion indeed, and will be essential reading for all students studying the period.