Development of Media Research in Estonia

Vihalemm, Peeter

doi:10.1515/nor-2017-0357

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“…In Estonia, the 1990s were a time of self-discovery and self-examination, in which not only the political regime's understanding of the past changed (Vihalemm, Lauristin and Tallo 1997), but also the negative past was juxtaposed with a positive vision identified with those born during the final years of socialism and after the break-up of the USSR (Nugin 2015). These young people were later accused of 'lacking memory', not appreciating their 'given' freedom, ignoring patriotic feelings, or even betraying the nationhood for being critical with the status quo (Maruste 2014;Nugin 2010;Preiman 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia

2018

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The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices. Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of UCL. Peter Zusi is Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of UCL.By adopting the tropes of 'repair' and 'waste', this book innovatively manages to link various material registers from architecture, intergenerational relations, affect and museums with ways of making the past present. Through a rigorous yet transdisciplinary method, Martínez brings together different scales and contexts that would often be segregated out. In this respect, the ethnography unfolds a deep and nuanced analysis, providing a useful comparative and insightful account of the processes of repair and waste making in all their material, social and ontological dimensions.Victor Buchli, Professor of Material Culture at UCL This book comprises an endearingly transdisciplinary ethnography of postsocialist material culture and social change in Estonia. Martínez creatively draws on a number of critical and cultural theorists, together with additional research on memory and political studies scholarship and the classics of anthropology. Grappling concurrently with time and space, the book offers a delightfully thick description of the material effects generated by the accelerated post-Soviet transformation in Estonia, inquiring into the generational specificities in experiencing and relating to the postsocialist condition through the conceptual anchors of wasted legacies and repair. This book defies disciplinary boundaries and shows how an attention to material relations and affective infrastructures might reinvigorate political theory.Maria This is a book about many things. Originally, it appears as a critique of discourses about the past, and yet it unfolds as an ethnography of pastness that deals with the contemporary city, geographies of affect, generational change and materiality. The work interweaves a number of topics related to how physical and cultural wasting are rarely synchronised, accounting for diverse ways of treating inheritances and the different intensities of urban memory that they generate. By studying the material and social afterlife of the Soviet world in Estonia, I attempt to show the dialectical relation between construction and demolition, and how the need to build something new entails the disinvestment and neglect of the legacies from the old regime. With a fringy anthropology, I explore how the vanquishing over the Soviet world happened on a different time scale from the decay of its legacy, allowing for new availabilities, intricate reappropriations and unforeseen opportunities for recuper...

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2018

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“…The long tradition of media and communication research in Estonia (see Vihalemm 2001) has given us an opportunity to trace how social factors affecting media use have changed throughout the last decades.…”

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“…According to surveys of the sociological research group of Estonian Radio and Estonian Television (see Vihalemm 2001), the average TV viewing time per day was 1 hour 30 minutes in 1976 and 2 hours in 1983-1985; radio listening time was 3 hours and 3 hours 10 minutes respectively (Saar 1985;Paulson 1986).…”

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Media Use in Estonia

Vihalemm

2006

Nordicom Review

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The article gives an overview of general trends in media use in Estonia over the last 15 years, making some comparisons with Nordic countries.Since the beginning of postcommunist transformation in 1991, the media landscape in Estonia has faced substantial changes. A completely renewed media system has emerged, characterized by a diversity of channels, formats, and contents. Not only the media themselves, but also the patterns of media use among audiences, their habits and expectations, have gone through a process of radical change. Changes in the Estonian media landscape have some aspects in common with many other European countries, such as the impact of emerging new media and global TV; others are specific features of transition to a market economy and democratic political order.Besides discussing general trends, the article gives insights into some audience-related aspects of changes, more specifically age and ethnicity.

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“…Weil fast 95 Prozent der Russen zu Hause einen Kabel-oder Satellitenanschluss haben, sind deren Mediennutzungsmöglichkeiten letztlich vielseitiger als die der Esten, von denen nur 34 Prozent über die gleiche technische Ausrüstung verfügen (Suni 2005). Die estnischen Russen können russischsprachiges Fernsehen aus ganz Europa empfangen und leben folglich -nach wie vor -in einer ganz eigenen Medienwelt, die mit der estnischen wenig verbunden ist (Vihalemm 1999).…”

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Fragmentierte Publika in der Transformationsgesellschaft Estlands. Tendenzen der Mediennutzung

Kõuts-Klemm¹

2006

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Development of Media Research in Estonia

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Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia

Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia

Media Use in Estonia

Fragmentierte Publika in der Transformationsgesellschaft Estlands. Tendenzen der Mediennutzung

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