Finding the Right Place on the Map: Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective (Ecrea Series)

Finding the Right Place on the Map is an international comparison of the media systems and democratic performance of the media in post-communist countries. From a comparative east-west perspective, this groundbreaking volume analyzes issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism. With topics ranging from the civil society approach, public service broadcasting, fandom, and the representation of poverty, each chapter considers a different aspect of the trends and problems surrounding the international media. This volume is an up-to-date overview of what media transformation has meant for post-communist countries in the past two decades. |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 range from the civil society approach to media and public service broadcasting to journalism cultures, fandom, representation of poverty and gender that reinforces social exclusion and legitimizes consumer capitalism. Finding the Right Place on the Map is a unique, up-to-date overview of what media transformation has meant for post-communist countries in nearly two decades. Preliminary Pages......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Twelve Concepts Regarding Media System Evolution and Democratization in Post-Communist Societies......Page 10 Part One: Dimensions of Change......Page 42 After Transition: The Media in Poland, Russia and China......Page 44 The Consolidation of Media Freedom in Post-Communist Countries......Page 74 Part Two: Normative and Policy Approaches to Media and Democracy......Page 86 How Media and Politics Shape Each Other in the New Europe......Page 88 Finding the Right Place on the Map: Prospects for Public Service Broadcasting in Post-Communist Countries......Page 102 Dances with Wolves: A Meditation on the Media and Political System in the European Union's Romania......Page 126 Democratizing Media, Welcoming Big Brother: Media in Bosnia and Herzegovina......Page 146 Media Concentration Trends in Central and Eastern Europe......Page 166 Part Three: Objectivity vs Partisanship and Fandom......Page 192 How Will It All Unfold? Media Systems and Journalism Cultures in Post-Communist Countries......Page 194 Changing Journalistic Discourses in the Baltic States – How to Deal with Cheap Journalism......Page 214 Effect Seekers and Media Spectacle: Hungarian Audience Responses to Partisan Media......Page 228 The Disadvantaged in Infotainment Television: From Representation to Policy......Page 260 Radicals Online: The Hungarian Street Protests of 2006 and the Internet......Page 278 Authors Biographies......Page 298 Back Matter......Page 304 "Finding the Right Place on the Map" is a cross-cutting, 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. The topics range from the civil society approach to media and public service broadcasting to journalism cultures, fandom and representation of poverty and gender that reinforce social exclusion and legitimize consumer capitalism. "Finding the Right Place on the Map" is a unique, up-to-date overview of what media transformation has meant for Post-Communist countries in nearly two decades. Strong comparative Eastern European-Western European and Eastern European-Chinese comparisons offer cutting-edge scholarship. The creative collaboration of leading authors in the field from East and West results in a unique and unusual book. The book covers a rich array of controversial topics in a comprehensive manner This is a 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. This book is a overview of what media transformation has meant for post-Communist countries in nearly two decades Dimensions Of Change -- Normative And Policy Approaches To Media And Democracy -- Objectivity Vs. Partisanship And Fandom -- Media, Exclusion, And Conflict. Edited By Karol Jakubowicz And Miklós Sükösd. Includes Bibliographical References.