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The Dawning of De-Westernization of CEE Media and Communication Media and Communication (ISSN: 2183-2439) 2015, Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 1-4 Doi: 10.17645/mac.v3i4.545 Editorial A View from the Inside: The Dawning Of De-Westernization of CEE Media and Communication Research? Epp Lauk Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; E-Mail: [email protected] Submitted: 22 December 2015 | Published: 29 December 2015 Abstract The Editorial outlines some characteristics of the development of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) media and communication scholarship during the past 25 years. In the majority of CEE countries, the media and communication research was re-established after the collapse of communism. Since then, a critical mass of active scholars has ap- peared who form an integral part of the larger European academia. A gradual integration of East and West perspectives in media and communication research is taking place along with moving away from the barely West-centred approach, and utilizing the research done by CEE scholars. Certain ‘de-westernization’ and internationalization of the research in terms of theoretical and methodological frameworks is depicted. Keywords Central and Eastern Europe; media systems; media change; CEE media and communication scholarship; de-westernization Issue This editorial is part of the special issue "Turbulences of the Central and Eastern European Media", edited by Epp Lauk (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). © 2015 by the author; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu- tion 4.0 International License (CC BY). The collapse of communist regimes and dissolution of Hallin and Mancini (2004) did not include CEE coun- the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s tries in their comparative media analysis. Their typolo- opened up a new, large and compelling field of media gy is based on an assumption of relatively stable pro- and communication scholarship—media transfor- cesses of societal and media development. Their mation and democratization in Central and Eastern Eu- models do not, therefore, embrace rapidly changing rope (CEE). Like the other fields of social sciences in media systems, although many elements of their anal- CEE countries, media and communication studies liter- ysis are applicable. As a result of comparative research ally had to be re-established in the early 1990s. No it has become obvious that regardless of a generally wonder then that in the early stages, scholarly discus- similar framework—democratic government, market sion of the most crucial issues (e.g., new ownership economy, and freedoms of the press and expression— patterns, formation of public service media, new tech- media systems in these countries have developed nologies, professionalization of journalism etc.) largely along a variety of trajectories. followed the lines of Western European and American The international scholarly debates have recognized conceptualisations. These, however, appeared insuffi- “an obviously existing disjuncture between theoretical cient in explaining the peculiarities of CEE media devel- approaches and systems of analysis predominantly opment. For instance, the efforts at exporting the phi- rooted in North-Western academia and complex media losophy and elements of the liberal (Anglo-American) realities that go beyond the narrow scope of Western model of journalism were not successful in CEE coun- experience” (Grüne & Ulrich, 2012, p. 1; see also Cur- tries, although this model has been generally accepted ran & Park, 2000). It has become obvious that the me- by media practitioners and theorists as the dominant dia “in democratising countries is an exercise of a differ- ideal of a responsible and professional journalism. ent quality than the study of mass media in established Media and Communication, 2015, Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 1-4 1 democracies of the West, in which media studies origi- (Dobek-Ostrowska, 2015). She classifies all 21 post- nated” (Jebril, Stetka, & Loveless, 2013, p. 2). communist CEE countries into the Hybrid Liberal (7 A quarter of a century of development of CEE me- states), the Politicized Media (5 states), the Media in dia and communication scholarship has led to a signifi- Transition (7 states) and the Authoritarian models (2 cant change in the direction of the research perspec- states). All the countries of the Hybrid Liberal model1 tives: from West-to-East towards East-to-East and East- have joined the EU and have the highest rankings in to-West. the Democracy Index and the Press Freedom Index, The first decade of CEE media research produced and have the highest GDP among the CEE countries. two kinds of studies that can generally be labelled as This model is described as the most stable among the descriptive comparisons. First, the collections of single- four models. The Politicized Media model applies to country studies that describe a set of aspects of media Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Serbia, with change in each country, such as market conditions for high political parallelism, high politicization of public the print and broadcasting media; ownership struc- broadcasting and control over the PSB by political ac- tures; legal regulation; media consumption; audiences; tors, and economic stagnation. The Freedom House aspects of professionalization etc. (Paletz & Jakubow- classifies these countries as ‘partly free’. The Media in icz, 2003; Paletz, Jakubowicz, & Novosel, 1995; Viha- Transition Model is typical to Moldova, Macedonia, lemm, 2002). Second, approaches that attempt at con- Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ceptualizing and theorizing the media change by and Ukraine. All of them are in the phase of transition comparing particular phenomena in different coun- towards democracy and the primary stage of media re- tries. For example, the development of public broad- form. Weak democratic standards are accompanied by casting across certain CEE countries; the conditions of very low journalistic professionalism. The Authoritarian media freedom; state media policy; structural devel- model includes Belorussia and Russia. They are ‘non- opment of media systems; media and civil society etc. free’ countries according to the Press Freedom Ranking (cf. Downing, 1996; Sparks & Reading, 1998;Splichal, of 2014, and the media in both countries are instru- 1994; Sükösd & Bajomi-Lázár, 2003). The normative mentalized by political elites (Dobek-Ostrowska, 2015, understanding of the role and functions of the media in pp. 26-35). Dobek-Ostrowska’s ‘inside perspective’ of a democratic society dominated as the departure point characterising media systems of CEE countries adds a for explaining the differences and similarities between new dimension to traditional normative approaches the countries. The realities of the emerging democra- and deserves further discussions. cies in CEE, however, deviated significantly from those The collections of the 2010s have added valuable in established democracies, and the research soon led contribution to the systemic approach and analytical to the conclusion that the transforming societies con- comparison in CEE media research (esp. Dobek-Ostrowska struct their unique media systems in a manner that & Glowacki, 2015; Dobek-Ostrowska, Glowacki, Jakubow- cannot be entirely explained using only the ‘western’ icz, & Sükösd, 2010; Downey & Mihelj, 2012; Glowacki, perspective. For example, the role of cultural and other Lauk, & Balčytiene, 2014; and Zielonka, 2015). contextual factors appeared to be more significant In addition to (collective) publications, the interna- than had been assumed. It also became apparent that tional co-operation of scholars has significantly con- the issue about the role of the media in societal change tributed to the development of the CEE scholarship. In remained insufficiently explored. As Jebril et al. (2013, shifting the direction of the research perspective, a Eu- p. 10) demonstrate, from the mid-2000s, the evolution ropean collaborative network in 2005−2009, COST A30 of the scholarship continued towards “a more systemic played an important role. The network was called “East approach, and comparative perspective, often inspired of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European by Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) seminal book on com- Media Research Agenda”. The project was a good ex- parative media and politics…and discussing particular ample of integration of East and West perspectives in aspects of media system transformation in the context media and communication research moving away from of broader processes of Europeanisation and globalisa- West-centred approach, and theoretically and meth- tion”. From this perspective, for example, Greskovits odologically utilizing the research done by CEE schol- suggests three distinct varieties of capitalism emerged ars. This was, in all likelihood, the first network that in CEE societies instead of one: 1) the neoliberal, 2) the brought together media and political communication re- embedded neoliberal, and 3) the neocorporatist type, searchers from 13 CEE countries, and boosted the de- which all resulted in different types of media systems velopment of their scholarship. Today, researchers from (Greskovits, 2015). Based on the analysis of the indica- 12 CEE countries participate in the global project called tors of the advancement of societal transformations Worlds of Journalism Study2, which investigates the de- (the level of media politicization, economic develop- ment and degree of media commercialization,
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