Naslov
The Media and Modernity: A Report from Croatia (1990 - 2014)

Autori
Petric, Mirko

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

Skup
1989-2014: Twenty-five Years After. What has happened to the Societies in Central and Southeast Europe since the Fall of the Iron Curtain?

Mjesto i datum
Graz, Austrija, 18.09.2014. - 20.09.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
media system; modernization; Croatia

Sažetak
The title of the paper echoes that of the already classical study written by John Thompson (1995). However, while Thompson’s research agenda focused on the influence of the media in the formation of modern societies, the aim of this paper is to b ring into relation the process of modernization of a postsocialist transitional society with contemporaneous changes in the media system. The starting point of discussion is Tomić -Koludrović’s general hypothesis according to which there were two simultaneous modernization processes at work in the Croatian society in the transitional period: one that can be described as characteristic of a “simple” modernity (in Ulrich Beck’s sense), and another one, more alike to “reflexive” or “second” modernity trends. The characteristics and outcomes of this “non -linear modernization” (Tomić-Koludrović, Petrić, Zdravković, 2014) are outlined in the first part of the paper. This outline is followed by a discussion of the changes in the overall ideological premises of themedia system, as well as of the more concrete changes in media ecology (including its technological aspects), the ownership structure of the media outlets, and media practices. The starting point of this part of the paper is Hallin’s and Mancini’s (2004) view according to which media and political institutions and practices are interdependent, which has generally supplanted earlier notions of the media as a dependent variable of social control. Hallin’s and Mancini’s (2004) terms are also used to describe a move of the Croatian media system from a post-authoritarian “polarized pluralistic” to a late transitional “corrected liberal” ideal. In conclusion, the general characteristics of Croatian society in the transitional period are compared with the characte ristics of the Croatian media system at work in the same period. What is noted are numerous divergences between the “modes of modernity” implicit in the analyzed phenomena, accounting for a “culture lag” of society trailing behind not only the technological but also behind other aspects (ideological, ownership -related) of a media system typical of “second modernity”, the elements of which have existed in Croatia since the end of the 1990s (i.e. since the first wave of international privatization of the print media).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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