CONTENTS: Media's Mandate in a Democracy; Building Our Media: Community Broadcasting, Social Movements & Media Democratization; Democracy, Development, Peace & Communication: An Overview of their Roles & Interaction; Structural & Social Forces Restricting Media News Content in Democracies: A Critical Perspective; Media in New Democracies: Agents for Change or Beneficiaries of Change; Democracy in the Media Society: Changing Media Structures -- Changing Political Communication?; Media & Judicial Activism; E-Democracy in Australia: The Challenge of Evolving a Successful Model; Democracy of, in & through Communication: Struggles Around Public Service in Canada in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Media in the New Political Order; Media Use in Estonia: Trends & Patterns.