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Ukraine's post-communist mass media : between capture and commercialization

Title: Ukraine's post-communist mass media : between capture and commercialization / Natalya Ryabinska, with a foreword by Marta Dyczok.
Author: Ryabinska, Natalya.
Publication: Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, 2017.

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Dyczok, Marta, 1963-

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Media and politics in the 'gray zone' between democracy and authoritarianism : an interdisciplinary approach -- If not 'transition' then what? State capture and formation of a disabling environment for democratization -- State capture -- Bad habits from the past? -- Informal institutions -- Informal institutions and state building in transitional societies -- The case of Ukraine -- Ukraine's oligarchic system -- The role of informal rules -- A trajectory of institutional change in Ukraine in 1994-2013 -- Institutional void, flawed formal rules, and the supremacy of informal institutions -- Media capture in post-communist Ukraine -- Media capture in Ukraine : actors, methods, and effects -- Who are the captors of private media in Ukraine? -- How does media capture affect Ukrainian media content? -- What methods do media captors use? -- Disabling environment : media regulators and media law -- Regulatory and monitoring bodies -- Media-related laws -- The media market and ownership, and economic dimension of media capture in Ukraine -- The Ukrainian media market -- Size and wealth -- Dependence on political advertising -- Unfinished privatization -- Foreign investments -- The Russian factor -- The dark side of media privatization and commercialization in Ukraine -- Oligarchic media ownership -- Concentration of media ownership and its nature in Ukraine -- Implications of oligarchic media ownership -- Market-driven tabloidization or 'political yellowing'? -- Conclusion : new obstacles to media reform in post- communist Ukraine -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.

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3838210514
9783838210513
3838210115
9783838210117

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990316470
ocn990316470
SCSB-5885646

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Columbia University Libraries