Shades of expression : online political journalism in the post-colour revolution nations / Simon Gwyn Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Simon Gwyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online journalism.

Citizen journalism.

Journalism--Ukraine.

Journalism.

Journalism--Georgia.

Journalism--Kyrgyzstan.

Journalism--Armenia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chester, England : University of Chester Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Colour Revolutions in the former Soviet Union were arguably the twenty-first century's first successful attempts to overthrow political elites through mass protest and civic society activism. They are of intrinsic interest to media scholars because concepts of media freedom were located at the heart of the protests against semiautocratic post-Communist regimes and have continued to characterise political debate in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. The ideals that underpinned the events were echoed several years later in the Arab world, and both initially involved influential networks of act

Contents:

""Front cover""; ""Title pages""; ""Copyright pages""; ""Contents""; ""List of illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: The lands of the ""semi-free""""; ""Chapter 1: Online political journalism in context: Beyond the ""Echo Chamber""""; ""Chapter 2: Deficient media environments: Post-Soviet trajectories in global context""; ""Chapter 3: Defining terms: Idealised benchmarks of journalistic function""; ""Chapter 4: Post-colour revolution country overviews""; ""Chapter 5: Method: The challenges of cross-national comparative media research""

""Chapter 6: Evidential: What are the barriers to conventional journalism?""""Chapter 7: Evidential: What is the relationship between online news media, the mainstream press and politics?""; ""Chapter 8: Evidential: How are minorities covered in the media?""; ""Chapter 9: Conclusion: The democratising potential of independent ""hub"" websites""; ""References""; ""Back cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013).

ISBN:

9781908258786

1908258780

OCLC:

881712160