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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.
Why do pluralistic media systems emerge? Comparing media change in the Czech Republic and in Russia after the collapse of communism
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 239-256
"A quarter of a century after the collapse of communism in the former Eastern bloc, a wide range of scholarly projects have been undertaken to compare and theorize processes of media change in the region. One question that scholars have sought to address is: what were the factors that crucially impa
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The Continued Relevance of the Concept of Propaganda: Propaganda as Ritual in Contemporary Hungary
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 219-237
"We will, in this paper, argue that the concept of propaganda is still relevant in the context of post-communist Hungary. More particularly, we will suggest that, in contrast to the period 1998-2010 when modern political marketing methods were applied widely, the political campaigns launched under V
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Major Trends of Media Development During Post-Communist Transition
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 14 pp.
"Even though the Albanian media is relatively young, it went through a dynamic and fast development. Unlike other countries in the region, the change of the political system in 1991 not only led to the end of media monopolization by the government, but also to the disappearance of nearly all existin
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Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture
Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate (2012), xii, 199 pp.
Pilgrimage Phenomenon in the New Context of Post-Communist Romanian Media
ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 8 (2011), pp. 127-143
"Twenty years after the fall of communism in Romania, there are two main pilgrimages that dominate the Orthodox religious environment: the pilgrimage to Saint Parascheva of Iasi and the pilgrimage to Saint Dumitru cel Nou, Basarabov in Bucharest. These two pilgrimages are practiced in old sacred cen
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After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2011), 299 pp.
New Developments in Central Asian Mass Media Research
Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 12, issue 4 (2011), pp. 128-143
"This wide range of contemporary mass media research illustrates how Central Asia press outlets remain tightly controlled and manipulated, first under the czars, then under the Soviets, and now under authoritarian regimes. Over the past two decades, the press systems have not achieved even minimal d
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Footprint of Financial Crisis in the Media
London: Open Society Institute, Media Program (2010), 14 pp.
"The global economic downturn has affected countless businesses across the region, forcing them to slash costs, lay off employees, and reduce output. Media businesses are no exception. However, when media businesses are hit, it is not just their turnover that suffers: their primary function, the del
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Media in Post-Communist Mongolia
Nordicom Review, volume 30, issue 2 (2009), pp. 19-33
"The introduction of a liberal media model built on freedom of expression, non-regulation, and free market in Post-Communist Mongolia has lead to a plethora of new media outlets. In a context of external pluralism, the media are key players in dramatic political, social, and cultural changes in Mong
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Media, Democracy and Freedom: The Post-Communist Experience
Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2009), 246 pp.
Television, Power and the Public in Russia
New York: Cambridge University Press (2008), viii, 212 pp.
"The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up dissenting television channels and pour money in as fast as it haemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints which it reflects: leaders demand assim
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Journalism in Central Asia: A Victim of Politics, Economics, and Widespread Self-censorship
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 13, issue 4 (2008), pp. 515-525
"Significant efforts to develop an independent journalism have stumbled badly in Central Asia, where politics, economics and the unforeseen consequence of widespread self-censorship have derailed development of a Western-style media and the democracy it serves. What is worse, from Kazakhstan to Uzbe
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Rude Awakening: Social and Media Change in Central and Eastern Europe
Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2007), 451 pp.
"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
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Media and Journalism in Romania
Berlin: Vistas (2006), 149 pp.
"This books is the first standard introduction into the situation of the mass media and journalism in Romania [...] The mass media system of Romania is shown in its essential elements: the legal framework, the economy of the media, the institutional structure of the printed press and of the audio-vi
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Post-Communist Media Development in Perspective
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2005), 16 pp.
"Press freedom provides both the oxygen of democracy and the laughing gas of infotainment and commercial exploitation. This has been something of a shocking discovery to make for people in Central and Eastern Europe. When they were trying to imagine, and plan for, a new media order once the Communis
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The Global and the National: Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2002), viii, 159 pp.
