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Policy and Regulation in the Media Landscape: the Greek Paradigm Concentration of Media Ownership Versus the Right to Information

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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Title Policy and Regulation in the Media Landscape: the Greek Paradigm Concentration of Media Ownership Versus the Right to Information
 
Creator VENETI, Anastasia; Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens
KARADIMITRIOU, Achilleas; Faculty of Communication & Media Studies
University of Athens
104 Ilioupoleos St., Nikea-Pireas 18450, Greece
 
Description By outlining the long-lasting peculiarities of the Greek media landscape, this paper aims to make us reflect on how the political system affects their development and role. Particularly, through analyzing the policy and regulating frames applied to Greek communication field, we try to shed light on the degree and shapes of media concentration and control as well as on the effects of this widespread phenomenon. Special emphasis is placed on the illicit interweaving of political and media interests, giving rise to a media system which has great difficulties in following constructively the technological developments in the field and challenges the active participation of citizens in the public affairs. In the contemporary society of digital revolution market values continue to be dominant. Those who control the private media outweigh the political figures and as a result any attempts to regulate the communication field are always implemented for the benefit of the private capital. Under these circumstances the question of whether the media can act as amplifiers of the democratic practices is more crucial than ever. This is the central question posed by the paper, arguing that the evolution of the Greek media system is inundated with evidence supporting the view that the particular voice of citizen as well as his right to information is under threat.
 
Publisher Faculty of Management, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
 
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Date 2014-02-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://www.managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/38
 
Source Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy; Vol 1, No 3 (2013): Issue 3; 439-458
2392-8042
2286-2668
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/38/30