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Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media

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This work is a reassessment of the impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. The author analyzes both the changes and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media, demostrates that most of the orthodox accounts of the end of communism are seriously flawed in overemphasizing radical change, and understanding continuity and he shows how to look at media in Eastern Europe as constanly evolving rather than in a state of post-revolutionary stasis.
Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the Univeristy of Westminster and Co-Editor of Media, Culture and Society. Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society.
Preface Introduction A Crisis of the Critical Project Totalitarianism and the Media Media Theory and the Decline of the Communist System Negotiated Revolutions The Fate of Civil Society The Struggle over Broadcasting Law The Emerging Media Systems Conclusions Understanding the Transition
`This study stands apart because of the conclusions drawn by the author from the polictical/constitutional d[ac]eb[ci]acle in the Visegard countries' - The Economic Times
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