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International Communication - main focus on East and Central Europe
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August 2006 - December 2018
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This chapter demonstrates that while some positive changes in the Romanian media system have occurred since 2015, the lofty goals of reaching across-the-board media freedom, journalistic professionalism and embrace of social responsibility, legal and societal protections for journalists, credibility, and the state and government respect for the med...
In The Cultural Core of Media Systems: The Romanian Case, Peter Gross offers an
alternative perspective to the reigning socio-political and economic approaches to
evaluating media systems and why and how they function. Gross outlines a cultural
model, a “kaleidoscopic cultural prism,” for assessing the nature and functioning
of these systems. By te...
This chapter examines the experience of IAMCR’s Romanian members who were targets of the Romanian Securitate. Based on a preliminary archival analysis, the chapter explores why Romanian IAMCR members were among those surveilled. While authoritarianism, state terror, and citizen surveillance were shared experiences of all Marxist-Leninist socialist...
Rhetorical Strategies and Political Engagement in Post-1989 Public Discourse in Romania
The interdisciplinary biannual peer-reviewed journal of The Society for Romanian Studies, launched in collaboration with ibidem Press in 2018, examines critical issues in Romanian Studies broadly conceived, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars....
Media and the 2019 European elections
Journalism and media research
Politics and media in Romania have more than just a symbiotic relationship, one in which they rely on each other. The elites that lead these two institutions share common values, beliefs, and attitudes, which translate into practices and behaviors. The end result is a corruptible, corrupt and corrupting relationship, between two corruptible , corru...
This new book ably edited by Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea brings together timely contributions from younger and more established scholars from two continents that shed fresh light on the evolution of the fledgling Romanian democracy after 1989. It reminds us that Romania’s image and transition to democracy must be linked to the absence of market r...
Media transformation in East and Central Europe
In Romania, the political system, itself an amalgam of systems and still shifting in line with a continually evolving democracy, is only the vessel in which corruption is percolating and not the cause of it; culture is the cause. This is true of the very nature of how instrumentalization, clientelism, and political parallelism have evolved. Romania...
The article attempts to determine how the Internet has influenced the work practices of journalists in Romania, using data from a qualitative research, “The professional practices and constraints of the Romanian gatekeepers,” conducted between December 2010 and January 2011, involving a sample of
73 journalists from 67 local and national media outl...
The idea that the media should be a support to the regime in power remains firmly entrenched in Central Asia.
Significant efforts to develop an independent journalism have stumbled badly in Central Asia, where politics, economics and the unforeseen consequence of widespread self-censorship have derailed development of a Western-style media and the democracy it serves. What is worse, from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan, prospects for developing a believable, fact...
Romania's accession to European Union membership in January 2007 did not inhibit the country's corrupt political and media elites from turning back the clock on the already disappointing evolution of the media system and the laws, values, attitudes, and behaviors that underline its daily functioning.The article outlines the Romanian media's multipl...
Among the wealth of ethnic media outlets in Eastern Europe, the Romani media have grown faster than any others despite small audiences and the poverty, illiteracy and absence of social, political and linguistic cohesiveness of their natural constituency in the region. Yet, beyond their potential symbolic value, the growth of the Romani media appear...
The 2004 parliamentary and presidential elections saw the defeat of the former communists who ruled Romania for most of the period since the fall of communism. The outcome of the presidential election surprised many, with outgoing president Ion Iliescu replaced not by the favored Prime Minister Adrian Năstase of the ruling Social Democratic Party (...
This article explores the progress made in the transition and transformation of Eastern Europe’s news media and the potential for their integration into the Western European media scene. Transformation and consolidation in Eastern European societies and in their media systems should not be pursued in the name of integration. For these societies, th...
East and Central European media evolution in a social and political context.
Post-1989 development of the Romanian media
The article examines press coverage of the 1992 presidential and parliamentary elections in Romania, the second free national elections after the December 1989 revolution that toppled the Ceausescu dictatorship. Coverage was quantitatively tilted toward three of the nine political parties that won seats in Romania's parliament. The journalistic dis...
Under the "Carpathian genius" and his family, the Rumanian press in the 1980's was comparable to that of other Eastern European countries in the 1950's. Against a background of dearth, the newspapers, radio and television were the instruments of a hopelessly real caricature of dogmatism right until the fall of the "Star of the Danube". Since 1990 (...
