Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Sparks provides a challenging reassessment of the impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. He analyzes both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media. Zusammenfassung Sparks provides a challenging reassessment of the impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. He analyzes both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
Sparks provides a challenging reassessment of the impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. He analyzes both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media.

Inhalt

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