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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452440703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington, c2013

ISBN

0-7391-7495-9

1-299-13900-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrossPeter <1949->

JakubowiczKarol

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern

Mass media - Europe, Eastern

Mass media policy - Europe, Eastern

Social change - Europe, Eastern

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World; Contents; Preface; 1 The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune. When, How, and for What Purpose Is Media Transition and Transformation Undertaken (and Completed) in Central and Eastern Europe?; 2 "Comparing Media Systems" between Eastern and Western Europe; 3 Freedom without Impartiality. The Vicious Circle of Media Capture; 4 From Political Propaganda to Political Marketing. Changing Patterns of Political Communication in Central and Eastern Europe; 5 Media and the Birth of the Post-Communist Consumer

6 The Intersection of Two Revolutions: The Role of New Media in the Development of Post-Socialist Europe in the First Twenty Years7 Digital (R)evolutions? Internet, New Media and Informed Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe; 8 Freedom of Mass Information in the Post-Soviet Countries: Two Models of Regulation; 9 Russian Media and Democracy; 10 Entertaining the People, Serving the Elites: Slovak Mass Media since



1989; 11 The Paradox of Journalistic Elites in Post-Communist Romania: From Defenders of Freedom of Expression to the Corrupted Moguls

12 Two Decades of Free Media in the Czech Republic: So What? Remarks on the Discourse of Post-1989 Media Transformation13 "Islands in the Stream": Reflections on Media Development in Belarus; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 thereof) made in transitioning and transforming the mass media in Eastern Europe since the fall of Communism. This collection reveals how democratic political change offers an opportunity, but not a guarantee, of successful corresponding change in the