Media transformations in the post-communist world : Eastern Europe's tortured path to change / edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The slings and arrow of outrageous fortune: when, how, and for what purpose is media transition and transformation undertaken (and completed) in Central and Eastern Europe? / Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz -- 2. "Comparing media systems" between eastern and western Europe / Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini -- 3. Freedom without impartiality: the vicious circle of media capture / Alina Mungiu-Pippdi -- 4. From political propaganda to political marketing: changing patterns of political communication in central and easter Europe / Péter Bajomi-Lázár -- 5. Media and the birth of the post-communist consumer / Nadia Kaneva and Elza Ibroscheva -- 6. The intersection of two revolutions: the role of new media in the development of post-socialist Europe in the first twenty years / John Parrish-Sprowl -- 7. Digital (r)evolutions?: internet, new media and informed citizenship in central and eastern Europe / Inka Salovaara-Moring -- 8. Freedom of mass information in the post-Soviet countries: two models of regulation / Andrei Richter -- 9. Russian media and democracy / Hedwig de Smaele -- 10. Entertaining the people, serving the elites: Slovak mass media since 1989 / Owen V. Johnson -- 11. The paradox of journalistic elites in post-Communist Romania: from defenders of freedom of expression to the corrupted moguls / Mihai Coman -- 12. Two decades of free media in the Czech Republic: so what? remarks on the discourse of post-1989 media transformation / Jan Jirák and Barbara Köpplová -- 13. "Islands in the stream": reflections on media development in Belarus / Oleg Manaev, Natalie Manaeva, and Dzmitry Yuran.