Informatologia, Vol. 39 No. 4, 2006.
Review article
The media and new values of the free market society
Antun Šundalić
Iva Heteši
Abstract
Modern society is primarily characterized by information technology and communication. Communication through the media, especially the electronic ones, has become the main link of the fast-changing world, rich in innovations. Mobilism and relativism of the new reality are the result of the technicistic interpretation of the world. The information technology paradigm has not only put knowledge as symbolic capital before material indicators of wealth; it has also made the very existence dependent on being well-informed. Such circumstances have given the electronic media a premium role, in which they assume and control the power.
In such an environment transition, societies are trying to adapt to the age of new values by a media reform at the socio-cultural and economic-technological level. The development of independent media, especially electronic ones, should go hand in hand with the democratisation of society. This is still far from being the case in Croatian society, as the public
Keywords
electronic media; communication; information; media reform; democratisation
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9256
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Publication date:
23.12.2006.
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