The Romanian Media Landscape: Evolution, Frontiers and Post-Mass Media Functions.
The Romanian Media Landscape: Evolution, Frontiers and Post-Mass Media Functions.

Summary/Abstract: All of the EU-member states today have implemented guarantees of press freedom in their constitutions and/or judicial systems, but trends and observations across Europe have raised questions and concerns of interference with press freedom structured along different realms of society. By analysing the greater context that the debate takes place in, the article attempts to give examples of how problems arising from regulation manifest themselves within a European and Romanian perspective. Lack of guidance from the EU and the cultural inheritance of the communist era, have combined with professional, political and general societal culture to establish the current status quo, of organizational and functional inefficiency of national government institutions in resolving the problem. These problems are reflected by a distinct lack of social responsibility by Romania’s media and political elites who actively block the pursuit of further democratisation. Furthermore, the article illustrates the theory of bottom-up processes of social interaction through technology reinforcing convergence of physical space and digital space that creates a new sense of place, community and solidarity. Post– mass media functions, thus create new forms of informational territory in the form of autonomous and collaborative productions of content that are competing with the classical notions of the mass media.

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