Publications

Laws and Policies—Enabling or Withholding the Development of the Culture of Constitutional Democracy

September 25, 2009
Publication - Academic Articles

New regulations and policies can hardly change the attitude of people in former communist countries as fast as a law can be passed, but they can certainly have some influence on the development of the political culture of the society. Bad laws and policies can preserve long-standing tendencies of state secrecy, undue political influence in media, lack of civic courage, and fear of speaking really freely. Good laws and policies can have the opposite result.

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From drift to draft: international institutional responses to the global digital divide

September 5, 2009
Publication - Academic Articles

Roxana Radu's book chapter, which appeared in Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity: Social Impacts of ICTs.

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Danger! Men at work: EU and CoE legislation and free expression in Hungary

March 24, 2009
Publication - Academic Articles

The European Union's new directive on Audiovisual Media Services may not be all that it is cracked up to be. On the contrary, under the guise of protecting vulnerable groups from hate speech, it may have the unintended consequence of allowing national governments to indulge in a little censorship. Something his region is only too familiar with, warns Péter Molnár, a specialist on freedom of speech from Hungary.

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The Need for an Enabling Environment

January 1, 2009
Publication - Academic Articles

Kate Coyer's book chapter appeared in the Community Media Sustainability Guide: The Business of Changing Lives (2009) published by Internews. 

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The Spirit of the Place: From Mauthausen to MoMA

December 1, 2008
Publications - Books

In this extraordinary book, professor Péter György, Head of the Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture at ELTE University's Institute for Fine Art and Media Theory, "takes us on a fascinating journey into the often unsettling and shadowy worlds of public memory and memorializing in Europe and the United States of America."

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