Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1011-7
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 162, 186 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

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, the fuzzy and contradictory legislation of the media realm, and the 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. Being embedded in comparative politics and post-communist media studies, it helps to 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 arrangement in the post-Soviet period. Based on empirical data of 1994–2013, this study also highlights many of the barriers to democratic reforms that have been persisting in Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity of 2013–2014.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryabinska, Natalya

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Dyczok, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Natalya Ryabinska is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Collegium Civitas at Warsaw. She studied at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Karazin National University of Kharkiv, and Polish Academy of Sciences, where she has been recently also teaching in the doctoral programs in sociology and political science. Her papers have appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, Global Media Journal, Polish Sociological Review, and Central European Journal of Communication.