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Perception of Romanian Journalists on Mass-media and Democracy

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  • Antonio MOMOC

    (University of Bucharest)

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Together with the new-media revolution and with passing on to the age of web 2.0, media theoreticians invoke the role of the new technologies in democratizing closed societies. The new-media optimists support the role of new-media in liberalizing the authoritarian political regimes, while pessimists claim that new-media supply the users only with the illusion of participation and of a fake political power. The latter believe that new-media cannot fulfill the role that mass-media, traditional journalism, and working in an editorial staff based on deontology norms had in building and sustaining a democratic regime. This study aims to establish the Romanian journalists’ perception regarding their role and the role of traditional mass-media in the process of democratizing the Romanian society. The results of this study are based on the answers to a series of semistructured interviews conducted with well-known journalists, sociologists, specialists in political sciences, and anthropologists, and express the current perception of Romania’s media gate-keepers on the theories concerning the role of journalism in the democratizing process

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  • Antonio MOMOC, 2012. "Perception of Romanian Journalists on Mass-media and Democracy," Revista Romana de Jurnalism si Comunicare - Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies – Universitatea din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Jurnalism si Stiintele Comunicarii, issue 2, pages 12-19.
    • Handle: RePEc:foj:journl:y:2012:i:2:p:12-19
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    Keywords

    Traditional media; social-media; citizenship;
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