La sphère publique et la démocratie contemporaine en Roumanie
The Public Sphere and Contemporary Democracy in Romania

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to explore the concept of public sphere as theorized by J. Habermas, and to examine to what extent this concept can be applied to the media realities of Romania. I have tried to show, by characterizing the Eastern European media, what are the differences between the model of classic liberalism and the realities from Eastern Europe. In the last part of the paper I have tried to question the hypothesis drawn by the American professor P. Gross, according to which the economic liberalization of the mass-media may lead to the professionalization of the field and to the formation of a public sphere. I have pointed out some features which make the Romanian media highly incompatible with such a hypothesis.

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