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Communication technology and digital media studies | Media studies | Communication and media studies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2016
Abstract: In 2006, the international community started to finalize the political status of Kosovo, the Serbian province, inhabited mostly by the Muslim Albanian majority. At the end of October 2006, a referendum was held in Serbia, where a new constitution was passed that claims Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia. What has taken place in the so-called “last media battle for Kosovo”? This article investigates discourses of the two most popular Serbian newspapers and their coverage of the October 2006 events. The analysis of recontextualization shows that the newspapers continuously reproduce the dominant Serbian nationalism that focuses on a myth of a Greater Serbia. With an appropriation of different discourses, the dominant Serbian nationalism becomes legitimized and justified. In particular, the newspapers reproduce distinctive religious discourses from the political past, and furthermore, they borrow so-called European, “war on terrorism” and “crime” discourses from the international mainstream public spheres and appropriate them to the contemporary Serbian political context. Generally, the newspapers reappropriate different discourses by framing the Serbs as the victims of their own local “perpetrators,” the Kosovo Albanians.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Date: 31-12-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2009
Abstract: From the 1990s, during and after the post-communist transitions in Eastern Europe, different self-help texts advancing spiritual or personal well-being continue to be a highly popular discourse in Slovenia. In this article we examine the appropriation of self-help discourse in one of Slovenia's most influential management magazines, Manager. On the basis of a critical discourse analysis of Manager's articles, we argue that the magazine predominantly uses spiritual self-help vocabulary and accordingly transforms definitions of basic business vocabulary. It offers a spiritual self-growth discourse as a solution to any current management or social problems and in doing so supports the (neo)liberal capitalism. This discourse attempts to advise managers as to how to adapt to the new competitive business environment. It furthermore promotes the belief that solely spiritual self-growth will help managers and their business partners to resist political and economic barriers and assure the business success in times of global corporate `survival'.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-01-2023
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-11-2021
Abstract: CO hydrogenation and oxidation were conducted over Ir supported on TiO2 and ZrO2 catalysts using a feed mimicking the water–gas shift reformate stream. The influence of the support interaction with Ir and the catalysts’ redox and CO chemisorption properties on activity and selectivity were evaluated. Both catalysts oxidised CO to CO2 in the absence of H2, and a conversion of 70% was obtained at 200 °C. For the CO oxidation in the presence of H2 over these catalysts, the oxidation of H2 was favoured over CO due to H2 spillover occurring at the active metal and support interface, resulting in the formation of interstitials catalysed by Ir. However, both catalysts showed promising activity for CO hydrogenation. Ir-ZrO2 was more active, giving 99.9% CO conversions from 350 to 370 °C, with high selectivity towards CH4 using minimal H2 from the feed. Furthermore, results for the Ir-ZrO2 catalyst showed that the superior activity compared to the Ir-TiO2 catalyst was mainly due to the reducibility of the support and its interaction with the active metal. Controlling the isoelectric point during the synthesis allowed for a stronger interaction between Ir and the ZrO2 support, which resulted in higher catalytic activity due to better metal dispersions, and higher CO chemisorption capacities than obtained for the Ir-TiO2 catalyst.
Publisher: Brill Deutschland GmbH
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2010
Abstract: Children born of war rapes continue to be a marginalized political, media and academic topic in Bosnian and other post-war societies. The goal of this article is to contribute to the research that deals with the life situations of children born of war rape, and to show the usefulness of an analysis of metaphors when a specific topic is emotionally difficult to talk about. The metaphor analysis of life stories of 19 adolescents — all Bosniak girls — born of war rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina shows that metaphorical language provides abused girls with the only way to express their painful situations. The authors identify three main uses of metaphors as discursive strategies. These are the only possible articulations of their painful situations: the avoidance of the use of vocabulary from the primary domain, the repetition of the metaphor and the immediate use of the metaphor when it collapses into the primary domain. There were three major metaphorical frames that dominated the self-presentation of the girls: ‘ shooting target’, ‘cancer’ and ‘warrior’.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Date: 30-03-2009
DOI: 10.22230/CJC.2009V34N1A2113
Abstract: In this article, we consider the themes and reception of To Sam Ja ( That’s Me) , a Big Brother–style Balkan reality TV show filmed in Macedonia in 2004 and 2005 that featured several cast members from former Yugoslav republics living together. Drawing on ex les taken from the production and reception of To Sam Ja, we explore the way in which the show manages political and economic conflicts by transposing them into the realm of the personal.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2013
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1314600113
Abstract: Public broadcasting institutions have existed as central and publicly funded national institutions, providing services in the public interest. The coincidence of technological, political and economic circumstances in the last 20 years or so, however, has challenged their monopoly position. Technological developments – specifically digitalisation – have expanded spectrum availability. In some cases, public television has been commercialised, privatised or marginalised by the introduction of commercial channels. This article focuses on a specific case study of the Slovene public broadcaster. It addresses the fate of public service television in the digital and post-communist era, tracing the transformation from state broadcasters to the era of digital delivery, audience fragmentation and commercial nationalism. It explores, on the one hand, the way in which public service broadcasters have embraced and capitalised on new forms of digital distribution and, on the other, how they continue to embrace national(istic) and commercial imperatives.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2016
Abstract: This article explores various aspects of how young Slovenian and Macedonian intellectuals, belonging to the last Yugoslav generation, articulate their (new) spaces of belonging and identity. I look at their Yugoslav memories and address a relatively straightforward question: how was the former Yugoslav community imagined, interpreted, represented, rejected, accepted and in what ways has this image of community been reappropriated and reimagined by the informants? From the narratives, my informants appear to identify with the former Yugoslavia as a multicultural space, a civic space that was based on a common socialist and pluralist culture, with its collective myths and rituals. However, as I suggest, Yugoslav identity starts to appear as a strange feeling of belonging, whereby that which has been familiar becomes suddenly and inexplicably alien. Furthermore, the concept of national identity seems to replicate and recycle the very supranational Yugoslav logics it wants to oppose.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-02-2010
Abstract: Children born of war rape continue to be a taboo theme in many post-war societies, also in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). This study is based on in-depth interviews with eleven adolescents born of war rape in BH. The main goal is to present how these adolescents represent themselves and their life-situations. On the basis of the research we identify four key themes: 1) their continued sense of hostility even after the end of the war 2) the internalized guilt 3) the role reversal and 4) the role of reconciling the war enemies. The analysis of life-stories shows new identifications of traumatic events and trauma. More than half of the interviewed girls suffer severe psychological and physical abuses. The research argues that there are three crucial factors influencing girls' self-perception: the role of the mothers, mothers' economic situation and general social exclusion.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2013
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 12-2004
DOI: 10.3167/092012904782311317
Abstract: This article, based on ethnographic research in Serbia, analyzes the topics of identity, memory and urban resistance in Serbia through an analysis of forty interviews with young Serbian intellectuals aged 23 to 35. I focus on the themes that recur in my informants' discourses on (national) spaces of belonging of the 1990s. My concern here is with making links between questions of memory, identity, belonging, resistance and space.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2016
DOI: 10.1177/107769580606100306
Abstract: Slovenia introduced media education to its educational curricula ten years ago. On the basis of interviews with media education teachers, we critically assess media education integration into the Slovenian educational system. Our analysis finds that the prescribed media education's objectives are not realized in the daily pedagogical praxis, since the Ministry of Education and Sport has not continuously supported the educational, financial, technological, and motivational structure for media education teachers. The realization of media education's objectives, then, mostly depends on a personal and an activist commitment of teachers themselves.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2016
Abstract: The September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States have reconfigured the global public debates as of how to defend a “civilized” world from the “Islamic terrorism.” The U.S.-led war on terror against extremist groups also produced and triggered a particular discourse in the former Yugoslav countries. The main aim of this article is to present an ex le of a study that explores how media appropriate dominant global antiterrorism discourse and apply it to a local context to legitimize and justify specific ideologies and discourse. As our critical discourse analysis shows, Serbian and Croatian newspapers apply the global discourse of terrorism to their local context to excuse their nationalisms and the past military actions against the Muslims in former Yugoslav wars, and with that, they assert their belonging to an antiterrorism global discursive community.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1314900107
Abstract: This article deals with the imagery of ‘Australia’ in contemporary Slovenia. In an analysis of both Slovene media texts and interviews with 32 Slovenes who want to immigrate to Australia, we explore a constructed image of Australia. We closely consider the symbolic imagery that shapes our informants' discourses about Australia in order to focus on sociocultural elements of migration, where the imagination plays a key role. We suggest that a closer examination of Slovene informants' narratives about Australia will reveal more important contemporary global migration factors and the power of media in affecting potential migrants' migration decisions. The article assesses the image of Australia in Slovenia, with the overall objective of demonstrating the urgency of critically rethinking the sense of belonging to both motherland and host country. We suggest that images and stereotypes of Australia are not just invented, but are also actively encouraged and negotiated within Slovene society.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2008
Abstract: / Since the violent collapse of former Yugoslavia, the `new' nation-states of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia have attempted to position themselves on the global map while seeking to create a distinctive `brand' (national) identity. Drawing on a textual analysis of their official governmental websites, this article explores how these former Yugoslav states use the Internet to create and represent self-images for the world. The governmental websites analysed frame the nation as a `brand' in that they employ advertising mechanisms to promote and sell their nations. Websites represent national territories, histories, products and citizens as commodities that can be sold to foreign investors and tourists. In this way, the former Yugoslav countries are transformed into brand-states that serve the function of relegating their citizens to the role of either exotic Others ready to be consumed by rich western tourists, or goods for foreign investment.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2016
Abstract: This article deals with the imagery of ‘the West’ in contemporary Serbia. In an analysis of interviews with young Serbian intellectuals, it evaluates how they use the metaphor of the West to construct their self-image. Furthermore, it discusses how Serbian responses to European stereotyping and ‘Othering’ of the Balkans can function as a form of celebratory appropriation, acceptance and exploitation of these stereotypes. It explores the ‘self-exoticization’ process as a reaction to the real or imagined western stereotyping that is detected in Serbian narratives, with the overall objective of demonstrating the urgency of critically rethinking the notion that the identity of European remote areas mirrors western interests and stereotypes. Serbian narratives echo the ongoing struggle over the definition and purpose of belonging to Europe in relation to a global economy. Memories, traditions and stereotypes of belonging are not just invented, but also actively encouraged and negotiated within Serbian society.
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-04-2012
Abstract: This article explores the way in which the portrayal of gender becomes linked to that of ethno-nationalism on the popular Serbian reality show The Palace. On the basis of a textual analysis of the public reactions to the reality show and its interpretations by the local audiences in Slovenia and Serbia, we claim that the show promotes specifically gendered and sexualized ethno-national identities, and that the interpretation of the show continues to be aligned with discourses of ethno-nationalist belonging. We argue that commercial, ethno-national femininity is currently employed to re-legitimate patriarchal nationalism in the name of freedom and empowerment via self-promotion.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-04-2014
Abstract: This article focuses on the local understandings, responses and interpretations of celebrity activist Angelina Jolie and the film she directed in 2011 about the war rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina: In the land of Blood and Honey. We first provide a brief historical context of the production and promotion of the film. Next, we offer a theoretical approach to the phenomenon of celebrity activism. In the third part, we look at how Jolie’s film has been received and interpreted in the region itself, since Jolie’s stated goal was to ‘raise awareness about war rapes’. On the basis of in-depth interviews with Bosnian public intellectuals, we argue that the film’s story of war rapes and suffering did little to raise awareness about war rape victims generally and was interpreted primarily within two discursive frameworks: celebrity and ethno-nationalistic ones that tend to reinforce the status quo in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina and perpetuate misunderstandings about war crimes. Jolie’s activism, in other words, did not contribute to the reconciliation between different ethnicities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has, on the contrary, further fostered polarization that continues to plague the region.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2009
DOI: 10.1177/097324700900500204
Abstract: Body shape and aesthetics have been identified as a key driver of human motivations and actions. Of six key facets of body shape identified in the literature, five are variables which can be changed directly by attendance at regular exercise sessions in fitness clubs and we suggest these have driven club membership increases and challenged both the Habermasian nature of public sphere activity and its locus, which influences the nature and practice of various kinds of journalism. This article identifies club membership activities in health and fitness clubs (gymnasiums) in Europe, North America and Australia during 2006, as precursors to established standard conversational public sphere activity noted in 2008, and the clubs themselves (in general) as important emerging modern sites of such public sphere activity, driven by the intensification of sports news programming on cable television, the development of the wireless theatre and other services aimed at increasing fitness club memberships. At the centre of this, the worldwide phenomenon of the media-equipped ‘cardio-theatre’ in fitness clubs is described and evaluated as a significant journalism and business environment. Business and research opportunities are identified.
Start Date: 2023
End Date: 12-2025
Amount: $422,816.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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