Mass communication and society -- Public communiation and public interest: contested territory -- Media performance: traditions of enquiry -- The 'public interest' in communication -- Media performance norms -- Performance norms in media policy discourse: the newspaper press -- Performance norms in media policy discourse: broadcasting -- A framework of principle for media assessment -- Research models and methods -- Media organizational performance: models and research options -- Media freedom -- Concepts and models of media freedom -- Media freedom: from structure to performance -- Media freedom: the organizational environment -- Diversity -- Varieties and processes of diversity -- Taking the measure of diversity: media reflection -- Media access and audience choice -- Objectivity -- Concepts of objectivity -- A framework for objectivity research -- Measuring objectivity: news as information -- Measuring objectivity: the evaluative dimension of news -- Mass media, order and social control -- Media and the maintenance of public order -- Policing the symbolic environment -- Solidarity and social identity -- Media and culture -- Questions of culture and mass communication -- Cultural identity and autonomy: whose media culture? -- In conclusion -- Changing media, changing mores: implications for assessment.