Media and Public Relations Research in Post-Socialist Societies
Deborrah Uecker author Sergei A Samoilenko editor Maureen C Minielli editor Marta N Lukacovic editor Michael R Finch editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:17th Mar '21
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Media and Public Relations Research in Post-Socialist Societies tracks the birth, development, and contemporary expansion of communication research, with a focus on public relations and media research in post-socialist societies. This collection illuminates the current state of media and communication studies in Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and Central Asia. Contributors discuss and demonstrate various issues of disciplinary roots and tensions, institutional constraints, study development, and contemporary status. This book also illustrates diverse types of traditional and contemporary communication studies from humanities and social science perspectives, ranging from linguistics to health communication. This collection focuses on both traditional and modern scholarship that has arisen due to international scholarly efforts, the advent of technology, and national research interests. Readers will have the opportunity to intellectually discuss the conceptual, theoretical, and practical issues that have occurred within the past twenty years regarding public relations, mass communication, and media studies in post-socialist societies. The analyses in this book lead readers to consider potential resolutions to some of the current dialectical tensions that are affecting post-socialist communication studies and contemplate how reflecting on these tensions informs the broader field of communication worldwide.
More people live in post-socialist countries than in the U.S., and nearly as many as in the whole EU. It is, therefore, amazing how little we know about media and public relations research in post-socialist societies.Minielli, Samoilenko, Lukacovic, Finch, and Uecker organized this collection as a much-needed insight into that large part of the world and as a reflection on developments that have been made in this research sector. To understand contemporary media and public relations research on a global level, one must read this book. -- Dejan Vercic, University of Ljubljana
This book takes on a major question of our times: how will nations move from an often-limiting socialist past into a new era that calls for systemic changes in everything from their political to economic and communicative practices? Among the demanding and important challenges being faced is how to adapt to communicating with newly available publics able to choose between competing options in their social, political and economic lives.
Of course, such adaptations will differ from country to country, and between different time periods, in part because practitioners in each country will be responding to different cultural and historical experiences. So, any book addressing the broad issue of media and public relations in these emerging contexts will need to accommodate different views born of different challenges and explain differing and sometimes disappointing levels of success. This book’s 12 chapters reflect just such differing responses to the challenges faced in the Eastern European context and Russia. For instance, as Samoilenko and Erzikova say in the first chapter on public relations in Russia, “public relations, once a promising force of democratization, has failed to realize its full potential as a full-fledged and self-reliant liaison between state and society.”
ISBN: 9781793607362
Dimensions: 227mm x 164mm x 26mm
Weight: 594g
274 pages