Oligarchization, de-Westernization and vulnerability: Media between democracy and authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe
Journal: Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
Year: 2015

What are the major trends of media change in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? How do these media transformations relate to economic, political, social and cultural currents in the region? After a decade of democratic optimism from the early 1990s to the 2000s, why did democratic media regimes in the region become recently so vulnerable? Why would the level of media freedom and pluralism in the CEE region remain significantly more limited than in Western Europe, despite supposedly s