Comparative Media Systems : European and Global Perspectives

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

Karol Jakubowicz is Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland.

Prof. Dr Hab. Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska is Head of the Department of Social Communication and Journalism at the Institute of Political Science, University of Wroclaw.

Michal Glowacki is Associate Editor Central European Journal of Communication.

Miklós Sükösd is Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong.