Naslov
Critical Junctions: Periodizing the context for media change.
(Critical Junctions: Periodizing the context for media change.)

Autori
Peruško, Zrinjka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
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Skup
Panel on Communication and social change: understanding the process, 7th ECREA Conference “Centers and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation”

Mjesto i datum
Lugano, Švicarska, 31.10.2019. - 03.11.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
media and social change ; critical junctures ; historical institutionalism ; CEE

Sažetak
Ryfe (2001) suggests that mainstream political communication sees history as an inevitable result of events that happened in the past, without questioning or investigating the historical paths and events, while only a minority views political communication also as cultural practice with uncertain pathways and consequences of change. In this contribution I examine the notion of turning points or critical junctures that shape periods for temporal comparison in the study of change in media systems. Interestingly, existing research that tackles temporal change in communication rarely uses the notion of critical junctions, and even when this happens, it is usually not in the context of media systems research. For instance, from the three approaches to change in communication research identified by Stanyer and Mihelj (2016), media systems studies were found only in relation to the trend mapping approach to communication change. Media systems are disposed to empirical analysis in terms of the dimensions/variables which define them (Hallin & Mancini 2004). The historical institutionalist approach is particularly useful in investigation of how media systems dimensions and contexts change with the change of their political and economic contextual conditions (Peruško 2016). This includes a prominent comparative aspect which primarily highlights the temporal comparison, and in an ancillary manner supports also the spatial comparisons, especially in relation to the understanding of developments in European new democracies. How are institutional conditions changing with the change of (historical) time and (geopolitical) space? How does media development in the east and west of Europe compare in times of political changes, or in times of mediatization (Peruško 2017)? In this intervention I focus on the periodization of contextual conditions in the historical institutionalist study of media systems, focusing on the comparison of the West and Central and Eastern Europe.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Sociologija

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