Comparative Media Systems
European and Global Perspectives

Edited by:
Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska, University of Wrocław, Poland
Michał Głowacki, Associate Editor of Central European Journal of Communication
Karol Jakubowicz, Information for All Program, UNESCO
Miklós Sükösd, Central European University, Budapest

Introduced by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, the book takes stock of twenty years of exiting transformation of east European media systems after the collapse of communism in 1989—an explicit, comparative, academic discussion of media politics.

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

Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Preface
Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini

1. Introduction
Karol Jakubowicz

2. Comparing West and East
Hans J. Kleinsteuber

3. In Search of a Label for the Russian Media System
Hedwig de Smaele

4. Introducing Turkey to the Three Media System Models
Volkan Uce and Knut De Swert

5. A Perspective from the South
Adrian Hadland

6. The Reform of the Public Radio and Television System in the United Kingdom and in Spain (2004–2007)
Carles Llorens and Isabel Fernández Alonso

7. Public Service Broadcasting in Ukraine
Olexiy Khabyuk

8. Actors, Evolution, and Production Models in the Commodification of Spanish Television
Laura Bergés Saura

9. The Global Journalist
Wolfgang Donsbach

10. Czech Journalists after the Collapse of the Old Media System
Jaromír Volek

11. Preserving Journalism
Auksė Balčytien ė and Halliki Harro-Loit

12. Main Professional Dilemmas of Journalists in Poland
Lucyna Szot

13. Comparing Media Systems and Media Content
Hartmut Wessler, Malgorzata Skorek, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Maximilian Held, Mihaela Dobreva, and Manuel Adolphsen

14. Political or Commercial Interests? Poland’s Axel Springer Tabloid, Fakt , and Its Coverage of Germany
Maren Röger

Contributors
Index

2010
304 pages
ISBN 978-963-9776-54-8 cloth $45.00 / €32.95 / £30.00