Transformation of Post-Communist Broadcast Media: A Case Study of Estonia (original) (raw)

The world in the late twentieth century experienced a third wave of democratization. Most notable was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism in Eastern Europe. Among the challenges confronting these countries was the transformation of their state broadcast structures into independent democratic broadcast systems. This study utilized a case study and historical approach to examine the restructuring of a broadcast media system in a postcommunist country, Estonia. The implications that can be drawn from this study is that post-Communist broadcast system transformations are complex, especially considering the formidable challenges confronting a country as it revamps both its political and economic system. RUNNING HEAD: TRANSFORMATION OF POST-COMMUNIST BROADCAST MEDIA Baltic State approached the transformation of their broadcast media and to compare their developments. In addition, research on the other Baltic States could also serve to contrast each country's political and cultural differences, and what influences these had on the reform and development of their respective broadcast systems. BIBLIOGRAPHY Arneson, P. (1993). Situating three contemporary qualitative methods in applied organizational communication research: Historical documentation techniques, the case study method, and the critical approach to organizational analysis. In S. L. Herndon & G. L. Kreps (Eds.), Qualitative research: Applications in