Rude Awakening: Social And Media Change in Central And Eastern Europe

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.

History

Jakubowicz, Karol

Europe

Hampton Pr

<p>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.</p>

Glasnost and After: Media and Change in Central and Eastern Europe (The Hampton Press Communication Series. Political Communication)

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. The heart of the book consists of six original, never-before-published studies. Written by distinguished scholars, almost all of them natives of the countries themselves, and some of them participants in the events they describe, these chapters cover the USSR, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Romania. After characterising the pre-reform situation, they then focus on the struggles over and within the media as the communist rulers of these states, often unwillingly, unleashed glasnost. They show how and explain why the media varyingly resisted or facilitated the forces of political change. The book concludes with a chapter considering the problematic future of the media in these countries.

Politics & Social Sciences

Novosel, Pavao

Paletz, David L.

Social Sciences

Briefly traces the city's history and shows Warsaw's historic buildings, offices, gardens, bridges, and street scenes

Warsaw (English and Polish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Rafalski, Piotr

Morek, Jan

Photography & Video

Hippocrene Books

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