Table of Contents

Paradigm lost?; media studies and research on information and communication technologies in the UK; the language of advantage - satellite television in Western Europe; the prognosis for satellite television in the UK; white and green and not much re(a)d - the white paper on broadcasting policy; broadband Black Death cuts queues - the information society and the UK; wall to wall Dallas? the US-UK trade in television programmes; broadcasting and national culture in Canada; national culture - a contradiction in terms?; walling Germany with brass - theoretical paradigms in British studies of television news; seeing is believing; - the ideology of naturalism.