Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska (editor); Michał Głowacki (editor); Karol Jakubowicz (editor); Miklós Sükösd (editor)

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the effects of ownership in terms of impacts on media freedom; 3) the various dimensions of the relationship between mass media and political systems in a comparative perspective; 4) professionalization of journalism in different political cultures—autonomy of journalists, professional norms and practices, political instrumentalization and the commercialization of the media; 5) the role of state intervention in media systems

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Preface
1. Introduction. Media Systems Research: An Overview
2. Comparing West and East: A Comparative Approach of Transformation
3. In Search of a Label for the Russian Media System
4. Introducing Turkey to the Three Media System Models: The Content of TV News in Eleven Countries
5. A Perspective from the South: Triggers and Signs of Change
6. The Reform of the Public Radio and Television System in the United Kingdom and in Spain (2004–2007): A Comparative Analysis
7. Public Service Broadcasting in Ukraine: To Be or Not to Be?
8. Actors, Evolution, and Production Models in the Commodification of Spanish Television
9. The Global Journalist: Are Professional Structures Being Flattened?
10. Czech Journalists after the Collapse of the Old Media System: Looking for A New Professional Self-image
11. Preserving Journalism
12. Main Professional Dilemmas of Journalists in Poland
13. Comparing Media Systems and Media Content: Online Newspapers in Ten Eastern and Western European Countries
14. Political or Commercial Interests? Poland’s Axel Springer Tabloid, Fakt, and Its Coverage of Germany
Contributors
Index