The Cultural Core of Media Systems: The Romanian Case

Peter Gross

doi:10.5771/9781666932584

Summary

This book offers an alternative perspective to the reigning socio-political and economic approaches to evaluating media systems and why and how they function. Peter Gross outlines a cultural model, a "kaleidoscopic cultural prism," for assessing the nature and functioning of these systems. By testing this model in one Eastern European country, Romania, Gross contributes to existing scholarship on media theory, media and transformation, East and Central European media, Romanian media, and East and Central European transformations in general. Awareness of the inherent negatives in the cultural bricolage accumulated over the centuries while Romanians lived under physical, administrative, and ideological dominance of various empires is increasingly sown among the new generations. This reality makes a culture-driven understanding of Romania’s media system even more urgent and meaningful for comprehending the evolving transformation. Scholars of communication, media studies, and Eastern European studies will find this book of particular interest.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3257-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3258-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 164
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Culture and Its Guideposts No access Pages 21 - 40
Culture, Political Culture, Corruption, and Trust in Romania No access Pages 41 - 60
Culture, Media, and Political Markets No access Pages 61 - 82
Values (Whose?), Attitudes, and Media Professionalization No access Pages 83 - 104
Conclusion No access Pages 105 - 122
Bibliography No access Pages 123 - 152
Index No access Pages 153 - 162
About the Author No access Pages 163 - 164