Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media

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Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media provides a cliallengipg reassessment of tiie impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. • Colin Sparks analyses both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media, while at the same time exposing serious flaws in many orthodox accounts of the end of communism. He argues that there are much greater continuities between the old and the new systems than have previously been taken into account.
Instead of marking the end of critical enquiry, or the end of history, as some have suggested, Sparks contends that the collapse of the communist systems demonstrates how very limited and frequently incorrect the main ways of discussing the mass media actually are. He concludes with a provocative re-examinatlon of the ways in which we need to modify our thinking in the light of these developments. This book will be an Invaluable text for students in communication and... Tovább

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Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media provides a cliallengipg reassessment of tiie impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. • Colin Sparks analyses both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media, while at the same time exposing serious flaws in many orthodox accounts of the end of communism. He argues that there are much greater continuities between the old and the new systems than have previously been taken into account.
Instead of marking the end of critical enquiry, or the end of history, as some have suggested, Sparks contends that the collapse of the communist systems demonstrates how very limited and frequently incorrect the main ways of discussing the mass media actually are. He concludes with a provocative re-examinatlon of the ways in which we need to modify our thinking in the light of these developments. This book will be an Invaluable text for students in communication and media studies, and of additional interest to those working in political science, social theory and European studies. Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the University of Westminster and co-editor of Media, Culture & Society. Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and assistant editor of Media, Culture & Society.
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Series editors: John Corner, Nicholas Giarnham, -MMM Paddy Scannell, Philip Schleslnger, Colin Sparks
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