MediaMorphosis: the political economy of the print media in east central Europe during the first decade of the post-Communist era

The book provides a comparative analysis of the changes in the print media sectors of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland during the 1990s. It analyses the processes and features of the post-communist transformation from a political economy point of view. The analysis focuses on three main print media sectors: newspaper, magazine and book publishing. The study identifies four main processes of post-communist system change and examines the differences and similarities between the three countries and between various print media sectors. The features of the communist and the post-communist systems of the print media are compared in terms of the changing roles of the print media and of the main "actors‟ such as the state, audiences and media organisations