Naslov
Media Policies and Democratic Politics: The Quest for Free and Independent Media

Autori
Švob-Đokić, Nada

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
Media Policies: Country Practices within the EU Media Regulatory Framework / - , 2010

Skup
Media Policies: Country Practices within the EU Media Regulatory Framework

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 10.12.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
media policy; public sphere; independent media

Sažetak
The quest for free and independent media is shaped within the public sphere concepts. These are usually imagined as democratic spaces in which citizens use the freedom of expression to promote their communication interests and the related public policies. The structure of such public spheres and types of communication that occur within them are supposed to follow democratic procedures in shaping and implementing media policies. The public spheres do not correlate with sovereign states (Fraser, 2007: 8) ; they defy the existing borders and support constructions of the ‘hybridized cultural forms’. Until recently media policies were thought of as national, media specific and a part of cultural domain (Gripsrud and Moe, 2010), which is now being changed through the raise of a digital public sphere, that has introduced globalization, a-territorial communication, convergence and marketization. What is the reflection of such developments in a small country that evolves through transitional changes from socialism to (a brand of) liberal capitalism? What could be the structure of a public sphere that would contextualize the establishment of free and independent media? The main elements to be discussed in this context are the following: eclipse of any type of public sphere ; promotion of particular (political) and individual interests ; privatization of media and exposure to uncontrolled entrance of foreign media capital, transfer of foreign media organizations and institutions, provision of contents ; slow and difficult re-establishment of the role of state (that largely serves market interests) through the media regulations, and an extremely slow re-appearance of a fragile public sphere that only marginally influences the types of formally democratized communication.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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