Titles marked with # will be included in the course compendium
1. Baltic Media in Transition. Ed. By Peeter Vihalemm. Tartu University Press: Tartu, 2002. Chapter 1: The Transformation of Estonian Society and Media: 1987-2001. 42 pp
Chapter 2: Development of the Media in Latvia in the 1990s 37 pp
Chapter 3: Lithuanian Media – A Question of Change. 29 pp
Chapter 8: Development of Media Regulation in Estonia: 1988-2001. 16 pp
# 2. Lauristin, M. Contexts of Transition. In: Return to the Western World. Cultural and Political Perspectives on the Estonian Post-Communist Transition. Ed. By Marju Lauristin & Peeter Vihalemm with Karl Erik Rosengren & Lennart Weibull. Tartu University Press: Tartu. 1997. Pp 25-40. 15 pp
# 3. Sparks, Colin. Media theory after the fall of European communism. Why the old models from East and West won’t do any more. In: De-Westernizing Media Studies. Ed. by James Curran and Myung-Jin Park. Routledge: London and New York. 2000. Pp. 35-49. 15 pp
# 4. Jakubowicz, K. Media as Agents of Change. In: Paletz, D., Jakubowicz, K., Novosel, P. Glasnost and After. Media and Change in Central and Eastern Europe. Hampton Press: Cresskill, New Jersey. 1995. Pp. 19-47. 28 pp # 5. Towards a Civic Society. The Baltic Media’s Long Road to Freedom. Perspectives on History, Ethnicity and Journalism. Ed. by Svennik Høyer, Epp Lauk, Peeter Vihalemm. Baltic Association for Media Research/Nota Baltica Ltd.: Tartu. 1993.
Lauristin, M. & Vihalemm. P. The Balts – West of the East, East of the West. Pp. 13-40. 27 pp
Chapter 7: The Communist Press in the Soviet Republics. Pp 177-187. 10 pp
Lauristin, M. & Vihalemm, P. The Awakening (1987-1990). Pp. 223-226.4 pp
Chapter 11: Latvia: From the Singing Revolution to the 1993 Elections. Pp. 227-252. 25 pp
Chapter 12: Lithuania: Reshaping the Media and Society. Pp. 253-261. 9 pp
Chapter 13: Estonia: The First Years in the Elementary School of Democracy. Pp. 263-275. 12 pp
# 6. The Challenge of the Russian Minority: Emerging Multicultural Democracy in Estonia. Ed. by Marju Lauristin & Mati Heidmets. Tartu University Press: Tartu. 2002. Vihalemm, T. Identity Formation in the Open Media Space. Pp. 279-294. 15pp
Jakobson, V., Iljina, J. The Role of the Minority Press in the Process of Integration. Pp. 295-303. 9 pp
Kouts, R. Tammpuu, P. Changing Media Discourse on Minority Issues: From Ignorance towards Recognition. Pp. 305-316. 12 pp
7. Eide, E. The Long Distance Runner and Discourses on Europe’s Others. Ethnic Minority Representation in Feature Stories. In: Medierne, minoriteterne og det multikulturelle samfund. Skandinaviske perspektiver. Ed. by Thomas Tufte. NORDICOM: Gøteborg. 2003. Pp. 77-113. 36 pp
8. Aumente, J., Gross, P., Hiebert, R., Johnson V. O., Mills, D. Eastern European Journalism: Before, During and After Communism. Hampton press: Cresskill, New Jersey. 1999. 222 pp.
# 9. Coman, M. Developments in Journalism Theory About Media “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-99. In: Journalism Studies, Vol. 1, No 1, 2000, pp 35-56. 22 pp.
Total 578 pages. Students are free to choose 200 p by themselves. Some additional literature will be suggested in the beginning of the course.