Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems: The Case of Southeast Europe (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies) - Hardcover

Peruško, Zrinjka; Vozab, Dina; Cuvalo, Antonija

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367226774 ISBN 13: 9780367226770

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate configuration of conditions that influence their contemporary shape.

Applying an innovative longitudinal set-theoretical methodological approach, the book contributes to the theory of media systems with a novel theoretical framework for the comparative analysis of post-socialist media systems. This theory builds on the theory of historical institutionalism and the notion of critical junctures and path dependency in searching for an explanation for similarities or differences among media systems in the Eastern European region.

Extending the understanding of media systems beyond a political journalism focus, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on comparative media systems in the areas of media systems studies, political science, Southeast and Central European studies, post-socialist studies and communication studies.

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About the Author

Zrinjka Peruško is full professor of sociology of media and communication in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Dina Vozab is assistant professor in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Antonija Čuvalo is assistant professor in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367226774
• ISBN 13: 9780367226770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320