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

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This text assesses the progress (or lack thereo...

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Other Authors: Gross, Peter, 1949-, Jakubowicz, Karol
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington, ©2012.
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Table of 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.