Psychology of Media in Europe: The State of the Art — Perspectives for the Future

I. Perspectives on the Development of Media and Media Research in Europe.- Development of the Media in the Nineties: What can we Learn from the Recent Past?.- Three Perspectives on Media and Communication Studies in Europe.- Media Communications: Research in Psychology, Sociology and Linguistic Conversation Analysis.- II. The State of the Art.- Media Psychology in Austria: The Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute of Empirical Media Research.- Acquisition of a Second /Foreign Language by Viewing a Television Programm.- Institutional Structures of Radio Research — The State of the Art in Germany.- Media Psychology and Media Research in East Germany: The State of the Art.- Media Research at the Independent Television Commission.- Media Research in Ireland.- Research at the Leiden Center for Child and Media Studies.- Media Psychology in Sweden and the Nordic Countries.- Children and Media Psychology in Sweden: Examples from Empirical Work.- Les Tendances de la Recherche Communicationelle en Espagne.- Some Effects of Media on Representation: A Line of Research.- III. Cooperations.- Psychology of Media in Europe: The State of the Art.- Three Proposals for Cross-National Research on Television and Children.- The Authors.

Professor Dr. Peter Winterhoff-Spurk lehrt an der Universität des Saarlandes, Fachrichtung Psychologie, in Saarbrücken.