[aaus-list] Media, Democracy and Freedom, book now available

[Marta Dyczok]

Dear Colleagues

Thought you might be interested to know about a new publication that is now available, Marta Dyczok and Oxana Gaman-Golutvina (eds.) Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post Communist Experience (Peter Lang, 2009)

This volume brings together papers from an international group of scholars from various disciplines who, 
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Contents: 

Marta Dyczok: Introduction 

Marta Dyczok: Do the Media Matter? Focus on Ukraine 

Oxana Gaman-Golutvina: Contradictions between Freedom and Development: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions (the Russian Case) 

Stefan Jarolimek: In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails. Plurality, the Public Sphere and the Transformation of Press Journalism in Belarus 

Inta Brikše: Development of a Public Sphere: Journalistic Freedom and Media Accountability in Latvia 

Boris Dubin: Russia, the West and «The Special Path». Popular Attitudes to Other Countries 

Oleg Manaev: Belarus on the ‘Huntington Line’: The Role of Media (Devoted to the Memory of Samuel Huntington 

Masha Lipman: The Russian Media Scene: Industrial Rise and Industrial Decline 

Robert Austin: Less is More: Towards a Sustainable and Reliable Media in Albania 

Tamara Berekashivli:Trends in Georgia’s Mass Media after the ‘Rose Revolution’ 

Vicken Cheterian: Coloured Revolutions and the Media: Where is the Scoop? 

Oxana Gaman-Golutvina: Conclusions. Media and Democracy in Transformation Design.


Please see attachment for details.

Regards

Marta Dyczok



Marta Dyczok, DPhil (Oxon)
Associate Professor
Departments of History and Political Science
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 5C2
Canada
tel: 1-519-661-2111ext 84982
fax: 1-519-661-3010
e-mail: mdyczok at uwo.ca
http://history.uwo.ca/faculty/dyczok/


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