Media transformations in the post-communist world : Eastern Europe's tortured path to change / edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, Peter, 1949-

Jakubowicz, Karol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Mass media.

Mass media--Europe, Eastern.

Mass media policy--Europe, Eastern.

Mass media policy.

Social change--Europe, Eastern.

Social change.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Eastern Europe.

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington, [2013]

Summary:

In Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change, Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz provide a collection that shows how, despite positive changes after the fall of Communism, the transformations of societal institutions, including the mass media, have turned out to be slow, uncertain, and unsatisfying to many. The effect is compounded when measured against society's admittedly ambiguous and overly Panglossian expectations. The distinguished contributors to this volume offer readers a different view of post-Communist media by examining the mass media's evolution in the region from a more holistic perspective. Each chapter contributes to our understanding of the region by offering theoretical overviews and country-specific studies.

This collection serves as an affirmation that the study of mass media is essential to understanding the nature and workings of democracy in the long-suffering nations of Central and Eastern Europe, with international applications. Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World is an indispensable contribution to the study of Eastern Europe after Communism and the transformations of mass media in die region. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. The slings and arrow of outrageous fortune: when, how, and for what purpose is media transition and transformation undertaken (and completed) in Central and Eastern Europe? / Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz

2. "Comparing media systems" between eastern and western Europe / Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini

3. Freedom without impartiality: the vicious circle of media capture / Alina Mungiu-Pippdi

4. From political propaganda to political marketing: changing patterns of political communication in central and easter Europe / Péter Bajomi-Lázár

5. Media and the birth of the post-communist consumer / Nadia Kaneva and Elza Ibroscheva

6. The intersection of two revolutions: the role of new media in the development of post-socialist Europe in the first twenty years / John Parrish-Sprowl

7. Digital (r)evolutions?: internet, new media and informed citizenship in central and eastern Europe / Inka Salovaara-Moring

8. Freedom of mass information in the post-Soviet countries: two models of regulation / Andrei Richter

9. Russian media and democracy / Hedwig de Smaele

10. Entertaining the people, serving the elites: Slovak mass media since 1989 / Owen V. Johnson

11. The paradox of journalistic elites in post-Communist Romania: from defenders of freedom of expression to the corrupted moguls / Mihai Coman

12. Two decades of free media in the Czech Republic: so what? remarks on the discourse of post-1989 media transformation / Jan Jirák and Barbara Köpplová

13. "Islands in the stream": reflections on media development in Belarus / Oleg Manaev, Natalie Manaeva, and Dzmitry Yuran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739174944

0739174940

9780739174951

0739174959

OCLC:

802321359