Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news.
Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic upheavals in Europe in the late 1990s.
This interaction between media theories and media discourses, makes the book highly relevant for researchers in media and cultural studies as well as linguistics, and provides an important and innovatory link between these different approaches.

Introduction; Part 1 The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting; Chapter 1 Regularity and change in 24-hour news; Chapter 2 Timeliness; Chapter 3 Liveness as synchronicity and liveness as aesthetic; Part 2 The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting; Chapter 4 Constructing Europe; Chapter 5 Narrowcasting; Chapter 6 Spatial relations and sociability; Part 3 Trash and quality; Chapter 7 Bad television?; Chapter 8 European high culture-arts discourse in the new regime; Chapter 9 Worlds in common? Conclusions;

Kay Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool.,
Ulrike H. Meinhof is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Bradford.