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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782540203321

Titolo

Finding the right place on the map [[electronic resource] ] : Central and Eastern European media change in a global perspective / / edited by Karol Jakubowicz and Miklós Sükösd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2008

ISBN

1-282-03509-6

9786612035098

1-84150-267-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

Altri autori (Persone)

JakubowiczKarol

SükösdMiklós

Disciplina

302.230943

Soggetti

Mass media - Political aspects - Europe, Eastern

Mass media - Political aspects - Europe, Central

Mass media policy - Europe, Eastern

Mass media policy - Europe, Central

Democratization - Europe, Eastern

Democratization - Europe, Central

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Twelve Concepts Regarding Media System Evolution and Democratization in Post-Communist Societies; Part One: Dimensions of Change; After Transition: The Media in Poland, Russia and China; The Consolidation of Media Freedom in Post-Communist Countries; Part Two: Normative and Policy Approaches to Media and Democracy; How Media and Politics Shape Each Other in the New Europe; Finding the Right Place on the Map: Prospects for Public Service Broadcasting in Post-Communist Countries

Dances with Wolves: A Meditation on the Media and Political System in the European Union's RomaniaDemocratizing Media, Welcoming Big Brother: Media in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Media Concentration Trends in Central and Eastern Europe; Part Three: Objectivity vs Partisanship and Fandom; How Will It All Unfold? Media Systems and Journalism Cultures in Post-Communist Countries; Changing Journalistic



Discourses in the Baltic States - How to Deal with Cheap Journalism; Effect Seekers and Media Spectacle: Hungarian Audience Responses to Partisan Media; Part Four: Media, Exclusion, and Conflict

The Disadvantaged in Infotainment Television: From Representation to PolicyRadicals Online: The Hungarian Street Protests of 2006 and the Internet; Authors Biographies; Back Matter

Sommario/riassunto

Finding the Right Place on the Map is a crosscutting, international comparison of the media systems and the democratic performance of the media in post-Communist countries. It explores issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism in a comparative East-West perspective. Each chapter considers a different aspect of the trends and problems surrounding the media in comparative European and global perspectives. The result is a creative collaboration of leading authors from East and West that covers a rich array of controversial subjects in a comprehensive manner. Topics ran