This report explores what is known about the roles of the mass media in transitions to
democracy. It offers a fundamental overview of thinking regarding democratisation through …

Focusing on the key trends, practices and issues in contemporary journalism and news
cultures, Paschal Preston maps the major contours of change. Adopting a multi-level …

2 Third-Wave Visions: Technology as Social Transformer 23 New ICT and social
transformation 23 From 'new IT'to 'new ICT': archaeology and definitions of key terms 25 …

Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of
the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and …

Before proceeding to the individual country analyses, it is necessary to delineate a number
of key conceptual tools that underwrite any study of the role of media in its impact on …

Reflecting on the possibility that Chile's ruling Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia
might have lost the close 2000 presidential runoff election between its candidate Socialist …

Democratization of public communication not only requires the institutional reorganization of
the mass media, but also the adoption of new journalistic practices in political reporting …

Global media development in recent decades highlights several trends with potential impact
on the role of the media in democratic societies. Globalization, in the sense of the integration …

[For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in
shaping Irish social and cultural life. RTE's work is frequently shrouded in secrecy and …

This comparative study questions whether the transformation of state television into public
service television was successful in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and …