TY - BOOK ID - 77941462 TI - Comparative media systems PY - 2010 SN - 9786155211898 9786155211898 9786155211898 6155211892 128324831X 9786613248312 1441677062 9781441677068 9781283248310 9789639776548 9639776548 PB - Budapest New York Central European University Press DB - UniCat KW - Mass media policy KW - Mass media KW - Mass media and state KW - State and mass media KW - Communication policy KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Communication KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Government policy KW - East and West, European Union, Journalism, Media politics, Media regulation, Social conditions. KW - Mass media - Europe, Eastern - Congresses KW - Mass media - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern - Congresses KW - Mass media - Political aspects - Europe, Eastern - Congresses KW - Mass media policy - Europe, Eastern - Congresses KW - Journalisme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77941462 AB - Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the effects of ownership in terms of impacts on media freedom; 3) the various dimensions of the relationship between mass media and political systems in a comparative perspective; 4) professionalization of journalism in different political cultures—autonomy of journalists, professional norms and practices, political instrumentalization and the commercialization of the media; 5) the role of state intervention in media systems ER -