Towards a European public sphere / space?

Series of features including:

Life beyond the market square
The ECF, Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and Eurozine organised on 8 November 2007 in Vienna a workshop for European online media initiatives. ECF's Tommi Laitio explains why.

Medias: A need to catch up on Europe
Anja Herzog is employed at the Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg. There, she concerns herself with questions on European integration and the media development in Eastern Europe. She spoke to euro|topics about problems for the European public, and the potential in transnational media.

Surviving the Information Age
Geert Lovink, media theoretician and Internet critic, spoke in his address at the Workshop "Towards a European Public Sphere” of a crisis of confidence amongst Internet users and of new architectures of knowledge. In an interview with euro|topics, he explains his points of view in more detail, and explains why cheap tourism, migrants and the English language form the future of Europe.

Media in the transformation from product to service
Only with modern business models and new formats can the present deterioration of the media be counteracted, said Mark Hunter, Journalist and Professor at the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), in his contribution to the workshop "Towards a European Public Sphere".

• Primary Source

Dagens Nyheter, 27.3.12: When will there be a virtual European salon? (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1695851-when-will-there-be-virtual-european-salon

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