"This study utilized a case study and historical approach to examine the restructuring of a broadcast media system in a postcommunist country, Estonia. The implications that can be drawn from this study is that post-Communist broadcast system transformations are complex, especially considering the f
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ormidable challenges confronting a country as it revamps both its political and economic system." (Abstract)
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"This international survey of literature on women an mass communications focuses on the 1990s and continues where the first volume (1991) left off. Some pre-1990 works that were omitted in the first volume are included here as well. The work is organized by continents and regions. The first chapter
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provides a global perspective, and the following chapters are divided topically. All genres of publications, such as books, periodicals, dissertations, and conference papers, are examined." (Catalogue Greenwood Publishing 2000)
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"This book is a comparative study of five related themes - the roots of journalism in East/Central Europe and the former Soviet Union; the role and effects of journalism leading up to the events of 1989; journalism in the transition period from 1989 to 1996; the contributions, trials, and tribulatio
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ns of journalism in the transition period; and the state of journalism education in the regions under consideration. The ultimate goal is to identify patterns describing official and unofficial media systems during the communist period, and the role(s) and effects of communist and alternate or underground mass media and journalism both in the pre-1989 era and after the demise of the communist systems." (Publisher description)
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"Grundlage der Studie sind Repräsentativ-Umfragen in zehn postkommunistischen Ländern - von der Ex-DDR bis zur Ukraine -, die im Zeitraum November 1997 bis März 1998 durchgeführt wurden. Ergebnis: Einerseits versteht sich ein großer Teil der postkommunistischen Gesellschaft als nichtreligiös u
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nd nichtkonfessionsgebunden, andererseits sind - mit Ausnahme der Ex-DDR, Tschechiens und der Ukraine - die formellen Kirchenmitglieder überall in der Mehrheit. Zudem hat im Vergleich zu Umfragen unmittelbar nach der "Wende" (1990/91) in den meisten Reformstaaten das Vertrauen in die christlichen Kirchen zugenommen. Der erste Band (1999) umfasste Ungarn, Litauen und Slowenien, der zweite Band (2001) Polen, Kroatien und Tschechien, der dritte Band (2002) behandelt die Länder Rumänien, Ukraine und Slowakei." (Kathpress Tagesdienst 25./26.1.1999)
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"This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video ne
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ws and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation and globalization on the news agency business. Contributors consider how leading players like Reuters and Associated Press help to define the nature of both the Global and the Local as well as focusing on the network of relations between international and national agencies." (Publisher description)
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"This is the first in-depth study of how television viewers around the world respond to the ever increasing mass of information available from news programmes. It describes and interprets the type of news available and how it is understood in the context of everyday life. The study is based on news
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analysis, individual interviews and household interviews in seven countries: the United States, India, Mexico, Italy, Denmark, Israel and Belarus. Contributors include Michael Gurevitch, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Tamar Liebes, Paolo Mancini and Guillermo Orozco-Gomez." (Publisher description)
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"S'il y a eu moins de journalistes tués dans l'ensemble du monde en 1997 - vingt-six journalistes sont morts dans l'exercice de leur fonction -, les autres formes de violations de la liberté de la presse ne se sont pas atténuées. Il y avait, au 1er janvier 1998, environ 90 journalistes emprisonn
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és pour leurs activités professionnelles. Les agressions, interpellations, arrestations, condamnations d'éditeurs et de journalistes, les saisies et la censure de publications sont demeurées à peu près les mêmes que les années précédentes. Le planisphère de la liberté n'a pas non plus changé d'apparence. Sur les 185 Etats qui siègent aux Nations Unies, la situation demeure mauvaise dans quatre-vingt pays, et extrêmement mauvaise dans au moins trente autres. Il n'y a pas de surprise : la carte de la liberté de la presse coïncide avec celle de la démocratie et du respect des droits de l'homme. Si l'on s'était fait des illusions, on ne les a plus : l'implosion de l'empire soviétique et l'effondrement du modèle communiste au début des années 90 n'ont pas signifié la fin du totalitarisme. La bête a la vie dure. Le rapport de Reporters sans frontières analyse la situation de 140 pays de tous les continents." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Communicating Democracy presents the first comprehensive comparative investigation of the role of the media in the move toward democracy in developing and post-communist countries. Recognizing the central role of an independent press in the formulation of stable democracies, Patrick H. O'Neil and a
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team of area and country specialists explore the particular cultural, economic, and political conditions that have shaped the media in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. The authors examine how the print and electronic media function in societies that have recently made the move toward democracy--whether successfully or not. They pay particular attention to the role of the media in political life prior to transition; the impact of an authoritarian legacy on media structures after the move toward democracy; the problems in developing an independent media; and issues involving content, objectivity, and bias." (Publisher description)
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