Russian TV market: Between state supervision, commercial logic and simulacrum of public service
Russian TV market: Between state supervision, commercial logic and simulacrum of public service
Author(s): Elena Degtereva, Ilya KiriyaSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: state television; broadcasting; power; state and social control; state ownership; state regulation; homogenization of TV content
Summary/Abstract: The state plays supervising rather than regulative role on the Russian TV market, being an acting force per se on this market. Th e state takes care of the ideological and moral health of citizens as a missionary. In this respect the Russian State TV cannot be classifi ed as public TV – as the social order could not be formed by society. Instead the order is dropped down from power structures, imposing state ideas of social development and providing reproduction of power elite.
Journal: Central European Journal of Communication
- Issue Year: 3/2010
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 37-51
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English