After the czars and commissars
Subtitle: journalism in authoritarian post-Soviet Central Asia
By: edited by Eric Freedman and Richard Shafer
Series: Eurasian political economy and public policy studies series
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781611860054
Subjects: Online journalism; Cyberspace; Government policy; Censorship; Government and the press; Journalism; Post-communism; Freedom of the press; Mass media; Reporters and reporting; Press and politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical foundations for researching the roles of the press in today's Central Asia /  Eric Freedman; title: Under the commissars. Soviet foundations of the post-independence press in Central Asia / Richard Shafer; title: National perspectives.  Oligarchs and ownership: the role of financial-industrial groups in controlling Kazakhstan's "independent" media  / Barbara Junisbai; title: Reinforcing authoritarianism through media control: the case of post-Soviet Turkmenistan / Luca Anceschi; title: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Kyrgyzstan as presented in Vecherniy Bishkek: a radical Islamist organization through the eyes of Kyrgyz journalists / Irina Wolf; title: The future of Internet media in Uzbekistan: transformation from state censorship to monitoring of information space since independence /  Zhanna Kozhamberdiyeva; title: Journalistic self-censorship and the Tajik press in the context of Central Asia / Peter Gross and Timothy Kenny; title: Trans-regional perspectives. Loyalty in the new authoritarian model: journalistic rights and duties in Central Asian Media Law / Olivia Allison; title: Ethnic minorities and the media in Central Asia / Olivier Ferrando; title: Journalists at risk: the human impact of press constraints / Eric Freedman; title: International broadcasting to Uzbekistan: does it still matter? / Navbahor Imamova; title: Journalism education and professionalism.  Journalism education and professional training in Kazakhstan: from the Soviet era to Independence / Maureen J. Nemecek, Stan Ketterer, Galiya Ibrayeva, and Stanislav Los; title: Professionalism among journalists in Kyrgyzstan  / Gregory Pitts; title: New media, new frontiers. Internet libel law and freedom of expression in Tajikistan / Kristine Kohlmeier and Navruz Nekbakhtshoev; title: Blogging down the dictator? the Kyrgyz revolution and Samizdat web sites / Svetlana V. Kulikova and David D. Perlmutter; title: Conclusion: through the crystal ball /  Richard Shafer.