Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
European Journal of Communication
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by de Smaele, H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Applicability of Western Media Models on the Russian Media System

Hedwig de Smaele

For decades the (western) media world could be divided along the simple dichotomy of western vs communist media systems. When the communist world collapsed, the corresponding media model was declared history as well. At first sight, it was fully replaced by the western model in the same way as the society was reorganized according to western principles. On a closer look, however, western influence seems to be restricted primarily to the market area. The reshaping of the media system into a pluralist and independent Fourth Estate, the transformation of the journalistic community into an autonomous professional group dedicated to a public service ideal and the redefinition of the audience into a group of citizens all failed to occur. Media systems are given shape not only by economic but also by political and cultural factors. Russia's culture can be considered a combination of western/European and eastern/Asian characteristics. For this reason it is likely that we will witness the emerging of an indigenous Russian (Eurasian?) media system instead of the simple `westification' or `Europeanization' of the Russian media system.

Key Words: culture • Eastern Europe • media system • media theory • postcommunism • Russia

European Journal of Communication, Vol. 14, No. 2, 173-189 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0267323199014002002
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 European Journal of CommunicationHome page
J. Becker
Lessons from Russia: A Neo-Authoritarian Media System
European Journal of Communication, June 1, 2004; 19(2): 139 - 163.
[Abstract] [PDF]