European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century

Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy at the University of Salford. His research interests are in European and global communications policy, areas in which he has published widely. Seamus's research has been funded by the ESRC and the European Commission. He was part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers team which undertook the first EU-funded evaluation of the pan-European communications regulator, BEREC, in 2012. Seamus is Chair of the Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication Association and an ICA Board of Directors member. In 2015, hejoined the Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Communication as a Senior Editor (Oxford University Press). Manuel Puppis is Associate Professor in Media Systems and Media Structures at the Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM), University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He currently serves as chair of ECREA's Communication Law & Policy Section and board member of Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM). His research interests include media policy, media regulation and media governance, media systems in a comparative perspective, political communication and organization theory.Hilde Van den Bulck (PhD) is full professor of communication studies and head of the Media, Policy and Culture research group at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. She combines expertise in media culture and identity with expertise in media policies and structures, looking at the impact of technological, economic, political and cultural developments on media structures and policies, with a focus on public service broadcasting. In both areas she has researched and published in books and ISI journals.