Natalya Ryabinska

Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media (eBook, ePUB)

Between Capture and Commercialization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merely stem from the cultural heritage of their communist (and pre-communist) past. Focusing on Ukraine, she argues that, in the period after the fall of communism, peculiar new obstacles to media independence have arisen. They include the telltale structure of media ownership, with news reporting being concentrated in the hands of politically engaged business tycoons, fuzzy and contradictory legislation governing the media, and informal institutions of political interference in mass media.

The book analyzes interrelationships between politics, the economy, and media in Ukraine, especially their shadowy sides guided by private interests and informal institutions. Drawing on comparative politics and post-communist media studies, it helps understand the nature and workings of the Ukrainian media system situated in between democracy and authoritarianism. It offers insights into the inner logic of Ukraine's political system and institutional arrangements in the post-Soviet period. It also highlights many of the barriers to democratic reforms that have persisted in Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ibidem
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783838270111
• Artikelnr.: 49719118

Autorenporträt

Natalya Ryabinska. Foreword by Marta Dyczok

Rezensionen

"This book represents a very timely, well-informed, and intelligible analysis of the troublesome development of the media system in post-Soviet Ukraine. Applying the dual concept of state/media capture, Ryabinska convincingly dissects some of the most pressing structural problems currently impeding the process of media democratization in this country. Her emphasis on exposing informal practices and rules shaping the relationship between media and politics, as well as the explicit embeddedness of the study in the broader context of the situation in post-transition Central and Eastern Europe will make this book an original and highly valuable contribution to the study of journalism, media, and democracy in this part of the world. " -Dr. Václav Stetka, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University, UK