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Free media consolidation in Eastern Europe: Citizen attitudes about political, legal, and economic media freedom

Stoycheff, Elizabeth L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373925072

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Communication.
Over the past half-century, scholars have identified an array of institutional factors that engender free media systems, but have failed to acknowledge the role of citizen attitudes in media reform. A new theoretical perspective called free media consolidation argues that free media systems instead emerge as a combined result of a country’s political, legal, and economic institutions to supply free media, and citizens’ free media attitudes. This dissertation is the first study to conceptualize citizens’ free media attitudes along parallel dimensions (political, legal, and economic), and explore how they are formed. Empirical evidence was gathered from online panel surveys conducted in three media systems in Eastern Europe that possess free (Poland), partly free (Ukraine), and not free (Russia) media environments. My findings suggest that in Poland’s free media system, citizens’ demand for free media arises as a result of the internalization of free media norms established through interactions with a free media. But in the less free media environments of Ukraine and Russia, citizens are less likely to have internalized free media norms, and instead are more likely to base their evaluations and attitudes about media freedom on their political orientations. Implications for the consolidation of free media systems and future trajectories for research are discussed.
Erik Nisbet, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Gerald Kosicki, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
R. Kelly Garrett, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Michael McCluskey, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lee Becker, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
321 p.
Communication; Mass Communications; Mass Media; Political Science
press freedom; media freedom; communication; democracy; censorship; consolidation; conditional process modeling

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  • Stoycheff, E. L. (2013). Free media consolidation in Eastern Europe: Citizen attitudes about political, legal, and economic media freedom [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373925072

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stoycheff, Elizabeth. Free media consolidation in Eastern Europe: Citizen attitudes about political, legal, and economic media freedom. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373925072.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stoycheff, Elizabeth. "Free media consolidation in Eastern Europe: Citizen attitudes about political, legal, and economic media freedom." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373925072

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