Publications - Books

Lina Dencik: Media and Global Civil Society

November 11, 2011

Much analysis and hope in both academia and political rhetoric currently rests on ideas of deliberation and post-national democratic practices – the roots of a 'global civil society'. This has taken force as not just an analysis of social and political change, but as a normative project. This book, published by Palgrave has grown out of concern with how changes in media are influencing democratic function and politics in our global age.

Media, Nationalism and European Identities

June 1, 2011
In April 2011, CEU Press and the CMCS published the latest of a series of books that resulted from the collaborative research network East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda (2005-2009), coordinated by the CMCS and funded as a European COST initiative by the European Science Foundation.

Leistert, O., and T. Röhle: Generation Facebook. Über das Leben im Social Net

February 1, 2011

Facebook hat das Internet erobert. Lange als Trivialität belächelt, lässt sich die Relevanz der »sozialen Netzwerke« heute nicht mehr bestreiten. Als Umschlagplatz für soziale Beziehungen aller Art erlangt gerade der Marktführer immer größere ökonomische Macht und politische Bedeutung und nistet sich zusehends tiefer in gesellschaftliche Strukturen ein. In diesem Band kommen internationale Autorinnen und Autoren zu Wort, die erstmals eine umfassende medien- und kulturkritische Perspektive auf Facebook entwickeln. In fundierten theoretischen Beiträgen – u.a.

Media Freedom and Pluralism - Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe

July 1, 2010
The book provides a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe in a period of profound changes in media environments and use, and examines the logic of media policy-making and the reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models.

Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives

March 5, 2010
Introduced by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, the book takes stock of twenty years of exciting transformation of east European media systems after the collapse of communism in 1989—an explicit, comparative, academic discussion of media politics.