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[ecrea] New book: Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia. Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television

Sun Apr 23 20:11:33 GMT 2017




“Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia. Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television” (Intellect)

by Jānis Juzefovičs


This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency. Jānis Juzefovičs builds his book around Albert O. Hirschman’s classic concepts of exit, voice, and loyalty—the options available to a person within any system. He uses Hirschman’s ideas, along with tools from social constructionism, to assess how the publics of both the Latvian-speaking majority and the large Russian-speaking minority have responded to the role of public television in the nation-building efforts of the new Latvian state. Along the way, he develops our understanding of public broadcasting more generally, and the way it can be used to define a national 'we'.

The book will be of interest to all those investigating media audiences, public media, ethnic minorities and nationalism in post-communist societies and beyond.

Jānis Juzefovičs is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.

More information: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5236/

<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5236/><https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5236/>
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