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

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1. The slings and arrow of outrageous fortune: when, how, and for what purpose is media transition and transformation undertaken (and completed) in Central and Eastern Europe? / Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz -- 2. "Comparing media systems" between eastern and western Europe / Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini -- 3. Freedom without impartiality: the vicious circle of media capture / Alina Mungiu-Pippdi -- 4. From political propaganda to political marketing: changing patterns of political communication in central and easter Europe / Péter Bajomi-Lázár -- 5. Media and the birth of the post-communist consumer / Nadia Kaneva and Elza Ibroscheva -- 6. The intersection of two revolutions: the role of new media in the development of post-socialist Europe in the first twenty years / John Parrish-Sprowl -- 7. Digital (r)evolutions?: internet, new media and informed citizenship in central and eastern Europe / Inka Salovaara-Moring -- 8. Freedom of mass information in the post-Soviet countries: two models of regulation / Andrei Richter -- 9. Russian media and democracy / Hedwig de Smaele -- 10. Entertaining the people, serving the elites: Slovak mass media since 1989 / Owen V. Johnson -- 11. The paradox of journalistic elites in post-Communist Romania: from defenders of freedom of expression to the corrupted moguls / Mihai Coman -- 12. Two decades of free media in the Czech Republic: so what? remarks on the discourse of post-1989 media transformation / Jan Jirák and Barbara Köpplová -- 13. "Islands in the stream": reflections on media development in Belarus / Oleg Manaev, Natalie Manaeva, and Dzmitry Yuran.

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 media system.

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