Comparative Media Systems

European and Global Perspectives

Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, Michał Głowacki, Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd, Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd, Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska, Michał Głowacki, Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska, Michał Głowacki, Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9789639776548
• eBook ISBN:
  9786155211898
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: Business

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

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