ROMANIA. Risks and Opportunities Related to Media and Journalism Studies (2000–2020). Case Study on the National Research and Monitoring Capabilities.
Failid
Kuupäev
2022
Autorid
Ajakirja pealkiri
Ajakirja ISSN
Köite pealkiri
Kirjastaja
Abstrakt
Kirjeldus
The scope of the current paper is to review the existing documentary and scientifical sources
and literature that may enable the researcher to thoroughly examine the media field in Romania
in four domains: legal regulation and accountability systems, journalism, media usage patterns
and media-related competences. Such an analysis should enable the researcher to identify the
risks and opportunities that the four domains provide for the development of the deliberative
democracy in Romania.
We found an impressive quantity of data, information and knowledge, but a lack of structure
and some inconsistencies that makes research difficult and time-consuming. In some domains,
such the legal and journalistic, there is an abundance of sources, while in others, such as the
media-related competences, there is a scarcity. In between, the domain of media usage patterns
offers a variety of data, collected or produced by various actors, with different methodologies
and scopes. Such data is only partially available outside the business sector and is seldom comparable,
which hampers the research.
We identified a series of actors active in documenting and researching the media field: the state,
the academics, journalists, businesses, including those involved in new technologies that are
game changers. These actors take turns in one domain or another, but they do not coordinate or
cooperate.
It appears that the data and information distribution follow the “plum pudding model”243: valuable
information needs to be scooped out of volumes of irrelevant one.
In conclusion: some domains are barely documented at all, it is difficult to navigate the existing
information and identify the relevant information and there is a lack of cooperation between
actors that generate data and information as well as public policies. The major risk we identified
is the lack of evidence-based policymaking and for the research works and findings to go unnoticed
and unapplied by the practitioners and policymakers and for the new knowledge to be
wasted.