ARTÍCULO
TITULO

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

Anastasia VENETI    
Achilleas KARADIMITRIOU    

Resumen

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.

 Artículos similares

       
 
Martin Barthel     Pág. 58 - 74
Overcoming the periphery disadvantages is currently the official spatial policy of the European Union. The concepts of a cohesive community and a Europe of the regions are political priorities. However, the success of regional development depends primary... ver más

 
Devrim Özkan     Pág. 31 - 59
This study analyses the social and political developments which bring national states and societies face to face with ?migration? and ?identity? problems in the ?late modern period?. The fact that modern times are seeing the government being centralised ... ver más

 
Pavel N. Dudin,Zufar F. Husainov     Pág. 102 - 107
In article based on the materials of the American mass media the author constructs the autonomy process of Northeast China during the period preceding the Japanese-Chinese war of 1937-1945. The Japanese policy main stages on the creation of the semi-auto... ver más

 
Alina Catalina Duduciuc    
How Internet is used by individuals from different age groups to keep their health in check has become one of the major issue of both academic researchers and policy makers. The topic derives mainly from 2000-2014 data which converge towards an Internet ... ver más

 
Zhanna Nikolaevna Khaliman,Galina V. Alexeeva,Irina V. Zrutina,Xenia V. Goltsova,Tran Duy Thi     Pág. 202 - 207
The article looks at the issues of integration of people with disabilities into a contemporary Russian society by means of utilization of their labor potential in the production of items of folk art with consideration of experience of this kind of activi... ver más