Post Communism And The Media In Eastern Europe

Author : Peter Gross,Karol Jakubowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739174944

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Media Transformations in the Post-communist World by Peter Gross,Karol Jakubowicz Pdf

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 in-depth exploration 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 when measured against the admittedly ambiguous and overly Panglossian expectations. This collection offers readers a different view of post-Communist media by examining the mass media's evolution in the region from a more holistic perspective. The contributors to this volume respond to essential questions, including: Is the post-Communist transition and transformation over? When can it be considered over? Each chapter contributes to our understanding of these questions 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 the region.

Author : Patrick H. O'Neil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135218263

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Post-Communism and the Media in Eastern Europe by Patrick H. O'Neil Pdf

This investigation of the media in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, seeks to outline the legacies of communism confronting media reform, and how interaction between the media, state, society and market has led to the particular and unique dynamics in each case.

Author : Jerome Aumente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015042980667

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Eastern European Journalism by Jerome Aumente Pdf

This text covers five topics about journalism: its roots in East/Central Europe and former Soviet Union; its role and effect leading up to the events of 1989; the transition period; the contributions, trials and tribulations from 1989-1996; and the state of journalism education in these regions.

Author : Karol Jakubowicz
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123226412

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Rude Awakening by Karol Jakubowicz Pdf

"This book examines processes of media change in post-Communist countries. Considerable attention is paid to the general process of transformation before turning to the media in particular. In this reexamination of the media under the Communist system and its role in the transition, the stress is on analysis of media policy and media systems. The author develops a model of change in Central and Eastern Europe and how it can be applied. As such, the intention is not to provide a full account of the debate but to illustrate the main elements and mechanisms of the process as exemplified by the situation in selected countries."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Gross
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801868528

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Entangled Evolutions by Peter Gross Pdf

The revolutions of 1989 swept away Eastern Europe's communist governments and created expectations on the part of many observers that post-communist media would lead the liberated societies in establishing and embracing democratic political cultures. Peter Gross finds that it was utopian to hold such expectations of the media in societies in transition. On the one hand, those countries' media professionals had all learned their jobs under the communist regimes and could not instantly transform themselves into guides for a politically enabled populace, Gross argues. On the other hand, newcomers to the media world, even those who were notable literary figures, viewed themselves as social and political leaders rather than mere informers and facilitators of the resocialization required to form new democracies. The news media have remained highly politicized and partisan. So how are the media, civil society, and political culture related in societies in transition? And can changes in these relationships be anticipated? To address these questions, Entangled Evolutions examines media in post-1989 Eastern Europe. It studies the effects of privatization of the media, journalists' relations to political figures, institutional structures such as media laws, professional journalistic culture, and the media's relation to their market. Sources include interviews with journalists and politicians, sociological and political data from national surveys, and media audience studies.

Author : Sabina Mihelj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317168973

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Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective by Sabina Mihelj Pdf

Appearing more than twenty years after the revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, this book could not have come at a more appropriate time; a time to take stock not only of the changes but also the continuities in media systems of the region since 1989. To what extent are media institutions still controlled by political forces? To what extent are media markets operating in Central and Eastern Europe? Do media systems in Central and Eastern Europe resemble media systems in other parts of Europe? The answers to these questions are not the same for each country in the region. Their experience is not homogeneous. An international line up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars methodically examine the different economic, political, cultural, and transnational factors affecting developments in media systems across Central and Eastern Europe. Whereas earlier works in the media system tradition have, in the main, adopted the political framework of comparative politics, the authors argue that media systems are also cultural and economic institutions and there are other critical variables that might explain certain outcomes better. Topics discussed range from political economy to gender inequality to the study of ethno-cultural diversity. This unmatched volume gives you the unique opportunity to study the growing field of comparative media analysis across Eastern and Western Europe. A valuable resource that goes beyond the field of media and cultural analysis which media scholars as well as to area specialists should not go without!

Author : Colin Sparks,Anna Reading
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106015772038

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Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media by Colin Sparks,Anna Reading Pdf

The orthodox perspective on the impact of the ending of communism on the media in Eastern Europe is, according to the author, flawed. He argues that their mass media organisations are evolving and continuing rather than remaining static.

Author : Zrinjka Peruško,Dina Vozab,Antonija Čuvalo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000177374

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Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems by Zrinjka Peruško,Dina Vozab,Antonija Čuvalo Pdf

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate configuration of conditions that influence their contemporary shape. Applying an innovative longitudinal set-theoretical methodological approach, the book contributes to the theory of media systems with a novel theoretical framework for the comparative analysis of post-socialist media systems. This theory builds on the theory of historical institutionalism and the notion of critical junctures and path dependency in searching for an explanation for similarities or differences among media systems in the Eastern European region. Extending the understanding of media systems beyond a political journalism focus, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on comparative media systems in the areas of media systems studies, political science, Southeast and Central European studies, post-socialist studies and communication studies.

Author : Robert Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351307345

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Reporting the Post-communist Revolution by Robert Snyder Pdf

The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had imagined them on paper.In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and news bulletins, in the essays of Václav Havel, in the samizdat publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine, Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic life.If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons, Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the power of journalism.

Author : Albert L. Hester,L. Earle Reybold,Kimberly Conger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019355994

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The Post-Communist Press in Eastern and Central Europe by Albert L. Hester,L. Earle Reybold,Kimberly Conger Pdf

Author : Robert W. Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0765807386

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Reporting the Post-Communist Revolution by Robert W. Snyder Pdf

The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had imagined them on paper. In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and news bulletins, in the essays of Vclav Havel, in the samizdat publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine, Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic life. If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons, Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the power of journalism. Robert Giles is editor-in-chief of Media Studies Journal and executive director of the Media Studies Center. Formerly the editor and publisher of The Detroit News, he is the author of Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice. Robert W. Snyder is editor of Media Studies Journal, a historian, and most recently author of Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories. He has taught at Princeton and New York universities.

Author : Karol Jakubowicz,Pavao Novosel
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034220460

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Glasnost and After by Karol Jakubowicz,Pavao Novosel Pdf

This text chronicles and analyses the involvement in and effects of the media on the dramatic political change in what was once the Soviet empire. The book begins with four background essays that establish the theoretical context of the myriad and complex relationships between the media and political change.

Author : Marta Dyczok,Oksana Viktorovna Gaman-Golutvina
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3034303114

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Media, Democracy and Freedom by Marta Dyczok,Oksana Viktorovna Gaman-Golutvina Pdf

This book does what few other works have done: it examines the role media have played in the larger political, economic and social transformations in the post communist space. An international group of scholars from various disciplines explore the complex relations between media, society, and the state in this region over the past twenty years, and present theoretical arguments that challenge dominant views. They scrutinize changes in the public sphere as well as the media itself, its role, format, agenda and quality in the context of changing values and shifting power relationships.

Author : Zoran Samardzija
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813587141

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Post-Communist Malaise by Zoran Samardzija Pdf

Post-Communist Malaise examines political modernism within the context of post-communist Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It focuses on how select cinemas from the regions critique European unification and how they represent related issues like the transition from communism to free-market capitalism, the Euro crisis and austerity, and the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics.

Author : Péter Bajomi-Lázár
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782140089305

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Media in third-wave democracies by Péter Bajomi-Lázár Pdf

The media and political systems of former communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe share a number of similarities with those in Southern Europe. According to Karol Jakubowicz, these similarities also include late democratisation, a weak middle class, marked social and economic differences, a strong catholicism, etc. Where are the third-wave democracies to date, particularly as regards their media systems? And where are they heading for? This volume with his differents talks of a joint conference in 2016 attempts to answer these questions and many more.