Media in the Western Balkans : who controls the past controls the future
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00115162" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115162 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2020.1702620" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2020.1702620</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2020.1702620" target="_blank" >10.1080/14683857.2020.1702620</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Media in the Western Balkans : who controls the past controls the future
Original language description
The contribution assesses the role of the media in respect to democratization and EU accession in the countries of the Western Balkans (WB) and the development of press freedom over the long run. The author closely analyses the legislative framework and its implementation in practice and focuses in particular on the economic and political pressure on the media in the region. The article offers three arguments to explain the bad shape of media freedom in the Balkans: structural factors (state advertisements as the main source of income, economic tycoons close to incumbents as media owners), proximate or external factors (the deteriorating level of media freedom in some EU countries and the whole WB region, with an accent on stability rather than democracy) and political-societal dynamics (defamation and libel as means to punish journalists, verbal and physical assaults on journalists). The media in the WB region do not serve as the watchdog of democracy but are instead used as a means to reinforce illiberal regimes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
ISSN
1468-3857
e-ISSN
1743-9639
Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
161-181
UT code for WoS article
000502507800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076966113