Books By Arja Rosenholm - Author

Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova (eds.), The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals, Routledge, 2008 Price $ 160 Comments: This book on the Russian TV is largely written from a perspective of cultural studies. This is very close to the approach some authors in our book have chosen, but the book edited by Beumers et al. is methodologically more unified, while our book has more different approaches.   However, the juxtaposition of two perspectives of mass media, the quantitative one, as developed by traditional mass media and communication studies, and the one of cultural studies, is valuable since it represents collisions among researchers and lecturers characteristic for almost any journalism department. Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, Routledge, 2009 Price $ 160 Comments: This is a very fine book based on a substantial field research that successfully demonstrates an extent to which politics and culture are in