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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Frameworks of Comparison for Public Service Media -- 1.The Latin American Media System -- Media and Democracy in Latin America: Setting Out a Debate -- Introductory Approaches -- Media Democratisation Across Borders -- Defining an Intellectual Framework of Comp...

Contents note continued: pt. II The Public Sphere and the Public Interest: The Role of the State in Public Service Media -- 3.European Public Service Broadcasting Revisited -- Defining Public Service Broadcasting and the Public Interest -- European Public Service Broadcasting Dilemmas -- History and...

Contents note continued: Journalism Cultures in Latin America -- Contemporary Brazilian Journalism -- Conclusion -- pt. III Television, Entertainment and the Public Interest -- 5.Audience Perceptions Of Quality Programming and the Public Media -- Global and Local TV Cultures -- Television and Audien...

Contents note continued: Brazilian Television, National Identity and Audience Responses -- Public Journalism Formats in Brazil: From TV Cultura to TV Brasil -- Conclusion -- pt. IV The Internet for the Public Interest: The Limits and Uses of the Internet in Latin America -- 7.Media and Politics in L...

Contents note continued: The Benefits of Networked Politics -- Gender Politics, Blogging and the Presidential Dispute -- Conclusion -- pt. V Media Democratisation in Latin America: Towards a Politics for National Development and Àlternative' Globalisation -- 9.Conclusion -- General Perspectives --...