[ecrea] Special Open Access Issue of Medijske Studije: Media Democratization: Media Systems Twenty Five Years After the Revolutions of 1989

Special Issue of Medijske Studije: Media Democratization: Media Systems 
Twenty Five Years After the Revolutions of 1989

See
http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=11304

with the guest editor Dr. Lenka Waschková Císarová, from the Department 
of Media Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk 
University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Promotion will be held at the Faculty of Political Science of the 
University of Zagreb, on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at 10:15, room C 
(Lepusiceva 6, Zagreb, Croatia).

The idea of the Medijske Studije special issue about Media 
democratization was invoked by the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall 
of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The second reason 
for this special issue production was even more important – while in the 
late 1980s and early 1990s much attention focused on exploring the media 
transition in East Central Europe, by the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
the revolutions of 1989 academic literature on the subject has become 
scarcer and more specialized, with little attention paid to the 
complexity of issues within the frameworks of individual nation states. 
But we expect that the establishment of democratic governments and the 
free market combined with the fact that some of the former communist 
countries joined the NATO and the European Union does not mean that in 
these countries we do not find phenomena or trends that question the 
extent to which media fulfil their democratic roles. This prompted us to 
explore the current state of research on media and democratization in 
the region. The collection of articles in this special issue does not by 
any means attempt to provide a systematic or thorough overview of recent 
thinking on media and democratization in the region, rather, our aim is 
to alert to research that is little known internationally and that has 
potential consequences for our understanding of the complex issues of 
media and democratization beyond East Central Europe. There are six 
articles in three sections, Changing media systems, Changing roles of 
journalists and Challenges of media and democratization, focused on the 
relationship between journalists and owners, journalists and 
politicians, the role of minority language media and journalists, the 
relationship between new media and political participation and the 
analysis of emerging sub-field of media and democratization. The 
presentation will also highlight the main findings and conclusions of 
the particular articles.


Media Democratization: Media Systems Twenty Five Years After the 
Revolutions of 1989 (str.2-2)
Lenka Waschková Císarová, Monika Metyková

Better the Devil You Don't Know: Post-Revolutionary Journalism and Media 
Ownership in the Czech Republic (str.6-17)
Bolje da ne znate vraga: novinarstvo nakon Baršunaste revolucije i 
medijsko vlasništvo u Ceškoj (str.18-18)
Lenka Waschková Císarová, Monika Metyková

Journalists' Perceptions of Nomenklatura Networks and Media Ownership in 
Post-communist Bulgaria (str.19-33)
Novinarska percepcija umreženosti nomenklature i medijskog vlasništva u 
postkomunistickoj Bugarskoj (str.34-34)
Lada Trifonova Price

Threats to Mutual Trust: Czech Local Politicians and Local Journalists 
in the Era of Professional Political Communication (str.36-49) Prijetnje 
medusobnom povjerenju: ceški lokalni politicari i lokalni novinari u 
doba profesionalne politicke komunikacije (str.50-50)
Roman Hájek, Jan Vávra, Tereza Svobodová

Minority Language Media and Journalists in the Context of Societal 
Integration in Estonia (str.51-65)
Mediji na manjinskim jezicima i novinari u kontekstu društvene 
integracije u Estoniji (str.66-66)
Maria Jufereva, Epp Lauk

Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of New 
Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic (str.68-82) Što je na 
prvom mjestu – korištenje novih medija ili gradanska participacija kroz 
nove medije? Preispitivanje uloge novih medija u gradanskim praksama u 
Ceškoj (str.83-83)
Jakub Macek, Alena Macková, Johana Kotišová

Media and Democratisation: Challenges for an Emerging Sub-field (str.84-97)
Mediji i demokratizacija: izazovi s kojima se susrece potpodrucje u 
nastajanju (str.98-98)
Nael Jebril, Matthew Loveless, Vaclav Stetka

Pasi Väliaho, Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power and the Neoliberal 
Brain; Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction; David 
Bartram, Maritsa V. Poros and Pierre Monforte, Key Concepts in 
Migration; Amy B. Jordan and Daniel Romer (eds), Media and the 
Well-Being of Children and Adolescents; Angus Phillips, Turning the 
Page: The Evolution of the Book; Suzanne Franks, Women and Journalism 
(str.100-113)
Johana Kotišová, Tae-Sik Kim, Marianne Leppik, Marek Šebeš, Katerina 
Kirkosová, Daniela Vajbarová

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