Changing Channels - Ellen Mickiewicz

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Auteur(s) : Ellen Mickiewicz

Editeur : Duke University Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/1999

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 408

Expédition : 694

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.7 x 3.1

ISBN : 9780822324638

Résumé :

New in paperback
Revised and expanded

During the tumultuous 1990s, as Russia struggled to shed the trappings of the Soviet empire, television viewing emerged as an enormous influence on Russian life. The number of viewers who routinely watch the nightly news in Russia matches the number of Americans who tune in to the Super Bowl, thus making TV coverage the prized asset for which political leaders intensely-and sometimes violently-compete. In this revised and expanded edition of Changing Channels, Ellen Mickiewicz provides many fascinating insights, describing the knowing ways in which ordinary Russians watch the news, skeptically analyze information, and develop strategies for dealing with news bias.
Covering the period from the state-controlled television broadcasts at the end of the Soviet Union through the attempted coup against Gorbachev, the war in Chechnya, the presidential election of 1996, and the economic collapse of 1998, Mickiewicz draws on firsthand research, public opinion surveys, and many interviews with key players, including Gorbachev himself. By examining the role that television has played in the struggle to create political pluralism in Russia, she reveals how this struggle is both helped and hindered by the barrage of information, advertisements, and media-created personalities that populate the airwaves. Perhaps most significantly, she shows how television has emerged as the sole emblem of legitimate authority and has provided a rare and much-needed connection from one area of this huge, crisis-laden country to the next.
This new edition of Changing Channels will be valued by those interested in Russian studies, politics, media and communications, and cultural studies, as well as general readers who desire an up-to-date view of crucial developments in Russia at the end of the twentieth century.

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From the days when Leonid Brezhnev clung to power through the tumult of Mikhail Gorbachev and the election victories of Boris Yeltsin, Russian leaders have struggled over the control of television. In this fine and penetrating book, Ellen Mickiewicz traces those struggles and examines the larger question still ahead: whether a free and independent television can emerge that will bolster prospects for a stable, democratic nation. No one else has better captured this important saga.-David Gergen, Editor at Large, U.S. News & World Report For those who care about Russia's stormy evolution from dictatorship to democracy, here is an important story-the first extensive account of the crucially important revolution in Moscow television since 1985.-Hedrick Smith, author of The New Russians This book will enthral and enlighten its readers with its vivid revelations of political stratagems by politicians and journalists... This is a definitive study, based on lengthy interviews with the movers and shakers in the world of politics and television by a brilliant participant/observer of the momentous changes-in-the-making.-Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois at Chicago An important and fascinating story, elegantly told by Ellen Mickiewicz.-Stephen Hess, author of International News & Foreign Correspondents When Ellen Mickiewicz combines her years of on-scene experience, range of contacts, academic credentials, and writing skill to the subject of media power in Russia, the result makes must reading for anyone interested in today's Russian power struggle-or the central role of media control in every society.-Nicholas Johnson, former Commissioner, U.S. Federal Communications Commission [A] deep and detailed look at a long and occasionally fatal obsession with television's power on the part of Russia's political leaders.-Ron Aldridge, Publisher & Editorial Director, Electronic Media A riveting look at the political struggle f or control of television [in] the Soviet Union... The policy debates detailed in Changing Channels have universal application to our digital communications future. They are explained with skill and competence by an author who is intimately acquainted with both the issues and the people involved.-Bruce Christensen, former President and CEO of PBS It is difficult to imagine a more fair and thorough chronicle of television's role in Russia's ongoing evolution.-Phil Kloer, TV critic, The Atlantic Journal-Constitution