[ecrea] New Book: "Media's Role in the Socialist Era" by Savas Coban

Media's Role in the Socialist Era

by Savas Coban (Author)



Product Details

Paperback: 218 pages

Publisher: Amani International Publishers (December 20, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 3938054506

ISBN-13: 978-3938054505



Western literature was dominated for a long time by stereotype 
Sovietological approach, based on an assumption about the Soviet media, 
primarily as organs of propaganda. This limited and largely biased 
approach was an obvious consequence of the close nature of the USSR and 
other socialist countries where Western researchers had hardly any 
possibility to do empirical research. In the cold war era of the last 
century this was understandable but today - not. Openness of borders, 
archives, academic institutions, the opportunity to visit the media, 
talk with the old generation of journalists - all this offers new ways 
for in-depth and comprehensive examination of the role of media in the 
era of socialism. This new book edited by independent researcher Savas 
Coban does such an attempt by inviting young researchers from 
post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. The 
value of this book is that it represents the work of a new generation of 
researchers, who has grown up in a turbulent period of change, has 
personal experience and family memory of how it was, and wishes to 
examine the recent past of their country and media system. No wonder 
that the authors rely not only on Western, ‘secondary’ sources of 
information, but also on their domestic studies published in their 
native language. They are familiar with Western literature about their 
countries, but do not take it as gospel. Taken separately, the chapters 
are case studies of particular media or their national media system in 
the period of socialism. Taken together, they create the many-voiced 
narrative of how the media worked in an era of socialism, and what this 
era was for people. As their findings suggest, media fulfilled different 
roles, not just political propaganda, but also education, enlightenment, 
mobilization, and culture. With these roles media enjoyed the large 
popularity and trust in society. Their findings also show how the media 
and citizens prepared for political change in the country. This book 
will find its reader among those who are interested in issues of media 
in post-socialist Europe and the former USSR, and also among those who 
work in the interdisciplinary fields of media studies and memory studies.



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Table of Contents



Foreword - Svetlana Pasti

Prefaces:

Understanding (Socialist) Media - Jan Jirák

The Troubled Landscapes of the Soviet Media: Dictators as Celebrities, 
Foreign Broadcasts, Shadow Medias, and Propaganda taken for Fun - Rasa 
Balockaite

Articles:

Media and Socialism - Savas Coban

Soviet Model of Mass Media - Veronica Usacheva

Was It All Pure Propaganda? Journalistic Practices of ‘Silent 
Resistance’ in Estonian Soviet Journalism -   Epp Lauk & Tiiu Kreegipuu

The Influence of the State-Party on the Role of the Press in Socialist 
Romania - Emilia Sercan

A Fragmented History Media in Socialist East Germany and the ‘Double 
Media Landscape’  - Mandy D. Tröger

The Phenomenon of Samizdat in Slovakia -  Tereza Roncakova

Hungarian Television (MTV) During The Socialist Era - Sevgi Can Yagci

US and THEM in the Time of Protests -  Jan Krecek



Savas Coban

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