Comparing Media Systems: The European Dimension
Comparing Media Systems: The European Dimension

Summary/Abstract: Comparative media studies have become a central research area within academic media research. International comparison of media systems has undergone an impressive development in the last five decades. This article is about the classic contribution to the study of comparative media systems and what this means for Europe. The authors present short description of the major contributions and after that relate them to the European experience. Starting point of comparative media analysis was the question “Why is the press as it is?” as Siebert, Peterson, and Schramm put it in 1956, when they published their famous comparative study which claimed, not only to explain what the press does and why, but, as the subtitle claimed, What the Press Should Be and Do.

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