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Acknowledgements

This book originates from a Colloquium organized in May 1989 at the
Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik under the auspices of the
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication of Stockholm
University. Without their support it would not have been possible to
gather together such a range of scholars from different countries for
what turned out to be a productive and enjoyable week. We must first
thank the University and the Department for their generosity with time
and resources. We would also like to express our appreciation to the
staff of the Inter-University Centre for making available their facilities
and for their work in easing the task of organizing and running the
Colloquium.
In moving from a collection of papers to a book, we have been forced
to leave out some of the original contributions. The demands of space
and thematic unity have meant that we have excluded very valuable
papers. A number of these have already been published elsewhere and
others are being reworked as part of more extensive projects. We hope
that in time most of the material discussed will be publicly available.
The consideration of thematic unity also led us to include two papers,
by Michael Gurevitch and his collaborators and by Vincent Porter and
Suzanne Hasselbach, which were not presented at the Colloquium.
All the articles were specially commissioned with the exception of
‘Musical chairs?: the three public spheres in Poland’ by Karol
Jakubowicz. It first appeared in the journal Media, Culture and Society,
volume 12, number 2, and is reprinted here with the kind permission of
the journal’s editors and Sage Publications.
The production of this volume has been greatly facilitated by the
generosity of the Bonnierföretagen in endowing the Albert Bonnier
Visiting Professorship at the Department of Journalism, Media and
Communication of Stockholm University. Both the Series Editor and
one of the Editors of this volume have benefited from holding this chair