Abstrakt
This report explores what is known about the roles of the mass media in transitions to democracy. It offers a fundamental overview of thinking regarding democratisation through the media, and covers the major works, theories, and themes relevant to the study of mass media in transitional contexts.
Throughout the review, we explore selected regions (i.e. Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Arab world) in more detail to provide a comprehensive outlook on previous works that aim to understand, explain, or predict democratisation processes (i.e. regime change, institutional change, and democratic social is action) with reference to the media.
Our study aims to uncover a sufficientbasis for a theory of mass media during democratisation through reviewing and aligning existing work and empirical evidence on this subject.