[Commlist] New book: Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems - The Case of Southeast Europe

New book announcement:

Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems
The Case of Southeast Europe

By

Zrinjka Peruško <file:///search%3fauthor=Zrinjka%20Peruško>

Dina Vozab <file:///search%3fauthor=Dina%20Vozab>

Antonija Čuvalo <file:///search%3fauthor=Antonija%20Čuvalo>

Copyright Year 2021

Published October 4, 2020 by Routledge

320 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction  2. Explaining the transformations of post-socialist media 
systems  3. Prelude to modernity  4.Media systems in socialist 
modernity  5. Towards democracy: Post-socialist media systems in digital 
modernity  6. Why the media systems are the way they are

Reviews

This is a conceptually rich, methodologically sophisticated, and 
interdisciplinary analysis of south-east European media systems that 
explains continuity, change and divergence between the six cases. It 
deserves to be read not only by scholars of the region but by those 
considering how to approach more generally the study of comparative 
media systems and cultures.

- John Downey, Professor of Comparative Media Analysis, Loughborough 
University

There was the need to fill a gap in the study of media systems in 
Southeast Europe. This book is doing this in a very convincing way. 
Peruško and colleagues support their discussion of the media systems in 
Southeast Europe with a rich and often complex interpretative apparatus 
deriving both from media studies and political science. Undoubtedly this 
mixture represents a major enrichment of their attempt that opens the 
doors to other possible applications, avoiding the frequent 
self-reference that often characterizes media studies.

- Paolo Mancini

This book reveals major changes in media systems in the six 
post-socialist countries of Southeast Europe between their early 
development in the late 19th century and the end of the socialist period 
(1945-1990) after World War II, and the breakup of their common state of 
Yugoslavia (1918-1990). The authors follow common threads of changes in 
contemporary media policy and media systems from the prolific challenges 
they pose to democracies to the appalling combination of conditions that 
reinforce media dependence on agents of political and economic power in 
what they call a "hybrid and competitive authoritarian media systems". 
This is an important contribution to comparative media studies, 
providing an exciting insight into media culture across diverse national 
contexts and advancing a theoretical understanding of the complex and 
little-known changes in the post-socialist countries of the former 
Yugoslavia.

- Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana

Peruško, Vozab and Čuvalo’s book focusing on one of the most troubled 
regions of European history is an important contribution to the study of 
comparative media systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this 
excellent study offers historical depth, conceptual innovation and 
methodological sophistication and will be a benchmark for future 
comparative research in the field. A fascinating read for everybody 
interested in the transformation of media systems in emerging democracies!

- Katrin Voltmer, Professor of Communication and Democracy, University 
of Leeds

https://www.routledge.com/Comparing-Post-Socialist-Media-Systems-The-Case-of-Southeast-Europe/Perusko-Vozab-Cuvalo/p/book/9780367226787 
<https://www.routledge.com/Comparing-Post-Socialist-Media-Systems-The-Case-of-Southeast-Europe/Perusko-Vozab-Cuvalo/p/book/9780367226787>

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