Thought you might be interested to know about a new publication that is now available, Marta Dyczok and Oxana Gaman-Golutvina (eds.) Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post Communist Experience (Peter Lang, 2009)
This volume brings together papers from an international group of scholars from various disciplines who, 'explore the complex relations between media, society, and the state, in this region over the past twenty years, and present theoretical arguments which challenge dominant views.'
Contents:
Marta Dyczok: Introduction
Marta Dyczok: Do the Media Matter? Focus on Ukraine
Oxana Gaman-Golutvina: Contradictions between Freedom and Development: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions (the Russian Case)
Stefan Jarolimek: In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails. Plurality, the Public Sphere and the Transformation of Press Journalism in Belarus
Inta Brikše: Development of a Public Sphere: Journalistic Freedom and Media Accountability in Latvia
Boris Dubin: Russia, the West and «The Special Path». Popular Attitudes to Other Countries
Oleg Manaev: Belarus on the ‘Huntington Line’: The Role of Media (Devoted to the Memory of Samuel Huntington
Masha Lipman: The Russian Media Scene: Industrial Rise and Industrial Decline
Robert Austin: Less is More: Towards a Sustainable and Reliable Media in Albania
Tamara Berekashivli:Trends in Georgia’s Mass Media after the ‘Rose Revolution’
Vicken Cheterian: Coloured Revolutions and the Media: Where is the Scoop?
Oxana Gaman-Golutvina: Conclusions. Media and Democracy in Transformation Design.
Please see attachment for details.
Regards
Marta Dyczok
Marta Dyczok, DPhil (Oxon) Associate Professor Departments of History and Political Science University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5C2 Canada tel: 1-519-661-2111ext 84982 fax: 1-519-661-3010 e-mail: mdyczok@uwo.ca http://history.uwo.ca/faculty/dyczok/
