Original scientific paper
Towards a Croatian Normative Media Theory
Zrinka Peruško Čulek
; Institute for International Relations, Zagreb
Abstract
Media policy, as a group of aims, measures and activities that the state undertakes in order to organize the media sector, rests on often implicit or unconscious beliefs about media effects. Media policy is also based on a wider social normative media theory, as a common sense theory which includes a group of presumptions, beliefs, expectations or fears that the society has in regard to the media.
The author presents the elements of such a Croatian normative media theory, which have been identified from the media related legislative debates in the Croatian parliament between the first multi-party elections in 1990. and the end of 1996.
Based on the theory of social construction of reality, the author defines the creation of the Croatian media policy as a discursive construction of a part of the symbolic universe and as a construction of a ''theory" which legitimizes the institutional media sector. The main paradigms on media influences and the main normative media theories are presented to enable the identification of their elements in the forming and incomplete Croatian normative media theory.
Keywords
media policy; normative media theory; communication theory; discursive construction of reality; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
154471
URI
Publication date:
31.12.1997.
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