‘West’ of ‘East’ - Media in Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China: Multiple post-communisms and shifting geopolitical realities

TY - CHAP

T1 - ‘West’ of ‘East’ - Media in Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China: Multiple post-communisms and shifting geopolitical realities

AU - Sukosd, Miklos

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This chapter advances an alternative approach to the widely diffused paradigm in the analysis of institutional change in CEE as a process of Westernization. Instead of looking only Westward, the paper invites to rethink and reinterpret the optimistic democratization paradigm (which mainly rests on media performance assessments compared to normative democratic ideals and expected functions), and calls to acknowledge the existence of multiple post-communisms. The paper achieves this aim by (re)introducing an Eastwards post-communist comparative perspective in which Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet states and China represent three different historical trajectories and social, political, and economic systems of post-communism.

AB - This chapter advances an alternative approach to the widely diffused paradigm in the analysis of institutional change in CEE as a process of Westernization. Instead of looking only Westward, the paper invites to rethink and reinterpret the optimistic democratization paradigm (which mainly rests on media performance assessments compared to normative democratic ideals and expected functions), and calls to acknowledge the existence of multiple post-communisms. The paper achieves this aim by (re)introducing an Eastwards post-communist comparative perspective in which Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet states and China represent three different historical trajectories and social, political, and economic systems of post-communism.

UR - https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/17353?format=EPDF

U2 - 10.3726/978-3-653-04493-5

DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-04493-5

M3 - Book chapter

SN - ISBN 978-3-631-65421-7

BT - Journalism that matters: Views from Central and Eastern Europe

A2 - Głowacki, Michał

A2 - Lauk, Epp

A2 - Balčytienė, Auksė

PB - Peter Lang Edition

CY - Frankfurt am Main

ER -