Beschreibung:
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.
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.
PrefaceIntroduction A Crisis of the Critical ProjectTotalitarianism and the MediaMedia Theory and the Decline of the Communist SystemNegotiated RevolutionsThe Fate of Civil SocietyThe Struggle over Broadcasting LawThe Emerging Media SystemsConclusions Understanding the Transition