Delo Novinarstvo kot kultura: miti in vrednote skuša tako v teoretičnem kot empiričnem delu predv... more Delo Novinarstvo kot kultura: miti in vrednote skuša tako v teoretičnem kot empiričnem delu predvsem denaturalizirati uveljavljene poglede na novinarstvo. V prvem delu skozi osvetlitev pogosto zapostavljenih konceptov, s katerimi skuša novinarstvo pojasnjevati kulturni pristop, v empiričnem delu pa skozi primerjavo, kako novinarstvo reprezentirajo novinarji, novinarski izobraževalci in novinarski kritiki. V študijah primera se avtor osredotoča predvsem na vprašanje novinarske avtoritete, njenih temeljev, mehanizmov vzpostavljanja in vzdrževanja. Skozi analizo novinarskih učbenikov, (samo)refleksij o novinarstvu v komentarjih in intervjujih ter utemeljitvah novinarskih nagrad pokaže, da avtoriteta novinarstva še vedno temelji na (samo)deklarirani zmožnosti posredovanja in preslikavanja bolj ali manj popačene realnosti ter na konceptu objektivnosti. Avtor sklene, da je kriza novinarstva predvsem kriza dominantne novinarske ideologije in boj za označevanje, kaj novinarstvo je oziroma kaj naj bo v prihodnje.
Innisovo delo Pristranost komuniciranja je v sodobni medijski teoriji in pri analizi »medijskega ... more Innisovo delo Pristranost komuniciranja je v sodobni medijski teoriji in pri analizi »medijskega agregata« nepogrešljivo: ukvarja se z razmerjem med mediji komuniciranja in oblikovanjem, vzponom in propadom kultur in civilizacij-vse od tradicionalnih oralnih družb, grške ali egiptovske civilizacije do sodobne zahodne družbe. Innis nam s svojo analizo razmerja med tehnološkimi mediji komuniciranja omogoča razumeti družbene in kulturne posledice vstopanja »novih« medijev in posledično novo vlogo »starih« medijev v zgodovini civilizacij oz. komunikativno determiniranost vsake civilizacije.
V zborniku so zbrani prevodi nekaterih prelomnih besedil iz zgodovine proučevanja občinstva. Bese... more V zborniku so zbrani prevodi nekaterih prelomnih besedil iz zgodovine proučevanja občinstva. Besedila izhajajo iz različnih raziskovalnih, epistemoloških, teoretičnih in empiričnih pristopov, ki so v zgodovinski perspektivi oblikovali področje »študij občinstva«. Hkrati so ta besedila konstitutivna za disciplinarno identiteto komunikologije in kasneje medijskih študij, pri čemer jih je cela vrsta nastala zunaj njunih disciplinarnih okvirjev v okviru kulturne zgodovine, literarne teorije, sociologije kulture ali kulturnih študij, kar govori o interdisciplinarnosti tega raziskovalnega področja. Časovni okvir prevedenih besedil sega od poznih tridesetih let dvajsetega stoletja do prvega desetletja 21. stoletja. Kronološko zbornik začenja s prevodom kanonične raziskave Herte Herzog o ženskih poslušalkah radijskih limonadnic iz tridesetih let dvajsetega stoletja, ki velja za začetek kasnejšega raziskovanja »uporab in zadovoljitev«, končuje pa z zgodovino branja v okviru nouvelle histoire, s študijami recepcije in s sociološkimi teorijami okusa ter vprašanjem razrednih, spolnih in drugih distinkcij v potrošnji (medijske) kulture.
Kjerkoli in kadarkoli ljudje koordinirajo svoje delovanje in kadar se prilagajajo drugim in širše... more Kjerkoli in kadarkoli ljudje koordinirajo svoje delovanje in kadar se prilagajajo drugim in širšemu družbenemu svetu, bomo našli ritualno (ritualistično ali ritualizirano) komuniciranje. To je knjiga o ritualu, o literaturi o ritualnih študijah, o uporabi pojma ritual v literaturi o komunikacijskih študijah, o ritualu kot komunikacijskem fenomenu in o komuniciranju kot ritualnem fenomenu. Ukvarja se z rituali kot stvarmi, ritualnimi načini ukvarjanja s stvarmi in ritualom kot konceptom. Gre za bibliografski esej in teoretsko obravnavo. Morda si je zadala preveč ciljev na tako majhnem prostoru.
Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia reper... more Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia repertoires" and that media practices cannot be treated as unrelated practices performed on distinct platforms, the present study examined the digital sociability of young people and their media prosumption in a polymedia environment. Data were collected from group interviews of 67 12-to 19-year-olds and 59 personal visualised media sketches. The study focused on teenage engagement with news as part of their media repertoires and their understanding of what news is in the context of general platform sociability conditions, including a state of permanent connectedness and constant anticipation of something new. Their sociability based on permanent activity and affective engagement was enabled and framed by the algorithmically produced regime of visibility and the promise of liveness. The findings indicated that an important consequence of the increased fragmentation of activities is the naturalisation of the performance of multiple media practices at the same time. Although the complexity of such performance, even among teenagers, revealed socially distinctive categories, clear hierarchies between types of practices-such as watching news or pop culture, online shopping and doing homework-and the cultural differentiation of the dominant contexts for these practices-such as school and leisure-were eroded. The contexts of school, home, and leisure thus collapse, and the definition of important news journalism becomes highly unstable, with the distinction between pop and politics generally disintegrating.
Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia reper... more Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia repertoires" and that media practices cannot be treated as unrelated practices performed on distinct platforms, the present study examined the digital sociability of young people and their media prosumption in a polymedia environment. Data were collected from group interviews of 67 12-to 19-year-olds and 59 personal visualised media sketches. The study focused on teenage engagement with news as part of their media repertoires and their understanding of what news is in the context of general platform sociability conditions, including a state of permanent connectedness and constant anticipation of something new. Their sociability based on permanent activity and affective engagement was enabled and framed by the algorithmically produced regime of visibility and the promise of liveness. The findings indicated that an important consequence of the increased fragmentation of activities is the naturalisation of the performance of multiple media practices at the same time. Although the complexity of such performance, even among teenagers, revealed socially distinctive categories, clear hierarchies between types of practices-such as watching news or pop culture, online shopping and doing homework-and the cultural differentiation of the dominant contexts for these practices-such as school and leisure-were eroded. The contexts of school, home, and leisure thus collapse, and the definition of important news journalism becomes highly unstable, with the distinction between pop and politics generally disintegrating.
Karantena je kot spopad z epidemijo prinesla transformacijo prostorsko-časovne dimenzije vsakdanjega življenja. Porušila se je fizična in družbena diferenciacija prostorov v vsakdanjem življenju (delo, počitek, zabava, zasebno, javno, ospredje, ozadje ...). Obenem so bili ukinjeni običajni interakcijski rituali, ko je digitalno komuniciranje potisnilo ob stran telesni vidik družbenosti in utelešeno interakcijo med ljudmi. Življenje v karanteni se tako prevladujoče dogaja v sintetičnih situacijah. Avtorji analizirajo medijske prakse »komunikativne figuracije« skupine študentov – sošolcev, pri čemer se osredotočajo na spremembo komunikacijskih praks v obdobju najstrožnjih omejitev v času epidemije v kontekstu intenzivne mediatizacije. Ugotavljajo, da je permanentna raba medijev okrepila integracije tehnologije in praks občinstvenja v vsakdanje življenje, naturalizacijo digitalne družbenosti in fragmentacijo pozornosti. To je spletna predavanja na platformi Zoom spremenilo v eno od številnih enakovrednih medijskih praks. Predavanja so tako zaradi tesne integracije v siceršnjo medijsko pro-trošnjo izgubila svojo ritualno distinktivnost in lokacijo zunaj komodificirane digitalne kulture.
UVODNIK: Članki v tematskem sklopu tematizirajo nekatere ključne družbene in kulturne spremembe t... more UVODNIK: Članki v tematskem sklopu tematizirajo nekatere ključne družbene in kulturne spremembe ter s temi spremembami povezano transformacijo vloge medijev v proizvodnji družbenega védenja in kulturnih ter materialnih praks, povezanih z mediji.
The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analys... more The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analyse the discursive strategies through which the print media in Slovenia represented 'Melania' as an ethnically born Slovenian on a national scale. The article also demonstrates how patriotism, based on the love and feelings of belonging to the Slovenian nation-state, was nationalized in the case of 'Melania'. The main argument is that numerous and repetitive media representations of 'Melania' aggressively put nationalism in the commercial context, and consequently transformed the nation into a commodity and an object of trade which can be sold and of which the Slovenians can make a profit. Consequently, the Slovenian press coverage of Melania Trump created her as a national brand meant to perform on the local, national market when merging emotional attitudes with commercial allure. The article concludes with the discursive strategies such as representing 'Melania' as 'ours', as a tool to accelerate the country's economic growth and as a branding strategy to sell the Slovenian landscape and culture and produce the Slovenian nation as an imagined commodity. Furthermore, such branding of the nation is directed towards domestic rather than international audiences.
The proliferation of new media since the late 1990s has launched a new period of revitalising the... more The proliferation of new media since the late 1990s has launched a new period of revitalising the concept of interactivity but from very different angles and with several empirical research perspectives. The article's main aim is to show the variety of ways in which researchers have conceptualised, examined and analysed interactivity within media and journalism studies. The paper provides insights into the various readings of the changes within the field and offers a cautious view of the concept's potential. Based on a selective meta-analysis of different approaches, we propose to distinguish three perspectives on interactivity: communication-and media-centred perspectives, audience-or user-centred perspectives, and production-or journalist-centred perspectives. This distinction enables us to differentiate between what is considered interactive, and who this interaction involves according to several scholars within media and journalism studies. Key words: interactivity, digital media, online journalism, online news, audiences
V članku proučujemo značilnosti komentar-jev na Facebookovih straneh najbolj obiskanih novičar-sk... more V članku proučujemo značilnosti komentar-jev na Facebookovih straneh najbolj obiskanih novičar-skih portalov v Sloveniji v obdobju 2010-2017. Pri tem se osredotočamo na družbeno nesprejemljivi diskurz (DND) v okviru dveh tem, ki sta v tistem obdobju delili javnost, in sicer na begunsko krizo in pravice LGBT (lez-bijk, gejev, biseksualnih in transspolnih) oseb.. Rezultati kažejo, da je delež komentarjev, ki izražajo DND, visok in stabilen-v obeh temah in vseh treh izbranih medi-jih znaša okoli polovico vseh komentarjev. Med portali so presenetljivo majhne razlike v notranji strukturi in značilnostih tovrstnega komentiranja, izraziteje se raz-likujejo po obsegu in vrsti DND. Ni pa mogoče z gotovo-stjo potrditi prisotnosti organiziranih oziroma poveza-nih komentatorskih kampanj. Rezultati ponujajo enega prvih vpogledov v značilnosti komentatorskega okolja v Sloveniji, časovne dimenzije komentiranja in poveza-nosti med komentatorji. Ključni pojmi: Facebook, novičarski portali, komentar-ji, analiza omrežij, begunci, LGBT
Th e article focuses on tourist practices in the context of social diff erentiation and distincti... more Th e article focuses on tourist practices in the context of social diff erentiation and distinction. It examines the cultural signifi cance of travel as classifi cation practice and thereby its role in constituting and reproducing class hierarchies in contemporary globalized (or de-territorialized) world, characterized with increasing transnational patterns of communication and mobility. Using the case of Slovenia, characterized by post-egalitarian sentiment, it argues that class today is constituted also through class-specifi c and intersecting modes of travelling and dwelling. Th e results show that in post-egalitarian Slovenia social groups reproduce their status also by monopolizing distinct travel practices and travel aspirations, while on the other hand many are limited or constrained in such (voluntary) mobilities. We thus demonstrate that class matters for how people orient themselves as regards travel and (physi-cal/geographical) mobility, although in the results only the fundamental tension between the (global) mobility of the advantaged and the (local) fi xedness of the non-privileged that is structured by cultural capital/class position is recognized, along with the highest travel aspirations of those in the middle of social structure. In general, the paper calls for accounts on mobility in relation to class identity formation to be sensitive to both its symbolic and material aspects.
This chapter discusses the evolution of selected multi-camera sitcoms in postsocialist media cult... more This chapter discusses the evolution of selected multi-camera sitcoms in postsocialist media culture in the case of Slovenia and Croatia. In order to consider the interaction of the local and the global as well as possible paradoxes and tensions in small-nation/post-socialist sitcom humour, the chapter analyses selected shows on the production, textual and audience level. On the production level the specifics of local production context, influenced especially by low level of audience fragmentation, are highlighted. On the level of representations authors argue that a specific one-layered, vernacular humour is a distinct characteristic of these shows and in the last part the connection between this kind of humour and the audience’s taste in comedy is emphasised.
Television comedy has rarely been studied from the perspective of class in a post-socialist conte... more Television comedy has rarely been studied from the perspective of class in a post-socialist context. This paper analyses representations of class, body, gender and nationality in the three most popular sitcoms of the last two decades in Slovenia, focusing especially on their role in working-class discourse and its transformation. Ambivalent representations of working-class characters are highlighted and put in the context of the egalitarian ideology which prevails in Slovenian popular culture. Drawing on the difference between workplace and domestic sitcoms, the paper concludes that the appearance and performance of working-class characters may be interpreted as a reworking of class boundaries in the post-socialist context. Sitcoms are thus considered as contributing to a process of re-demarcating class boundaries, yet with a subtle mockery at the level of their bodies rather than by explicit vilification of the lower classes in general.
KEYWORDS: Social class, television comedy, representation, body, working class
Delo Novinarstvo kot kultura: miti in vrednote skuša tako v teoretičnem kot empiričnem delu predv... more Delo Novinarstvo kot kultura: miti in vrednote skuša tako v teoretičnem kot empiričnem delu predvsem denaturalizirati uveljavljene poglede na novinarstvo. V prvem delu skozi osvetlitev pogosto zapostavljenih konceptov, s katerimi skuša novinarstvo pojasnjevati kulturni pristop, v empiričnem delu pa skozi primerjavo, kako novinarstvo reprezentirajo novinarji, novinarski izobraževalci in novinarski kritiki. V študijah primera se avtor osredotoča predvsem na vprašanje novinarske avtoritete, njenih temeljev, mehanizmov vzpostavljanja in vzdrževanja. Skozi analizo novinarskih učbenikov, (samo)refleksij o novinarstvu v komentarjih in intervjujih ter utemeljitvah novinarskih nagrad pokaže, da avtoriteta novinarstva še vedno temelji na (samo)deklarirani zmožnosti posredovanja in preslikavanja bolj ali manj popačene realnosti ter na konceptu objektivnosti. Avtor sklene, da je kriza novinarstva predvsem kriza dominantne novinarske ideologije in boj za označevanje, kaj novinarstvo je oziroma kaj naj bo v prihodnje.
Innisovo delo Pristranost komuniciranja je v sodobni medijski teoriji in pri analizi »medijskega ... more Innisovo delo Pristranost komuniciranja je v sodobni medijski teoriji in pri analizi »medijskega agregata« nepogrešljivo: ukvarja se z razmerjem med mediji komuniciranja in oblikovanjem, vzponom in propadom kultur in civilizacij-vse od tradicionalnih oralnih družb, grške ali egiptovske civilizacije do sodobne zahodne družbe. Innis nam s svojo analizo razmerja med tehnološkimi mediji komuniciranja omogoča razumeti družbene in kulturne posledice vstopanja »novih« medijev in posledično novo vlogo »starih« medijev v zgodovini civilizacij oz. komunikativno determiniranost vsake civilizacije.
V zborniku so zbrani prevodi nekaterih prelomnih besedil iz zgodovine proučevanja občinstva. Bese... more V zborniku so zbrani prevodi nekaterih prelomnih besedil iz zgodovine proučevanja občinstva. Besedila izhajajo iz različnih raziskovalnih, epistemoloških, teoretičnih in empiričnih pristopov, ki so v zgodovinski perspektivi oblikovali področje »študij občinstva«. Hkrati so ta besedila konstitutivna za disciplinarno identiteto komunikologije in kasneje medijskih študij, pri čemer jih je cela vrsta nastala zunaj njunih disciplinarnih okvirjev v okviru kulturne zgodovine, literarne teorije, sociologije kulture ali kulturnih študij, kar govori o interdisciplinarnosti tega raziskovalnega področja. Časovni okvir prevedenih besedil sega od poznih tridesetih let dvajsetega stoletja do prvega desetletja 21. stoletja. Kronološko zbornik začenja s prevodom kanonične raziskave Herte Herzog o ženskih poslušalkah radijskih limonadnic iz tridesetih let dvajsetega stoletja, ki velja za začetek kasnejšega raziskovanja »uporab in zadovoljitev«, končuje pa z zgodovino branja v okviru nouvelle histoire, s študijami recepcije in s sociološkimi teorijami okusa ter vprašanjem razrednih, spolnih in drugih distinkcij v potrošnji (medijske) kulture.
Kjerkoli in kadarkoli ljudje koordinirajo svoje delovanje in kadar se prilagajajo drugim in širše... more Kjerkoli in kadarkoli ljudje koordinirajo svoje delovanje in kadar se prilagajajo drugim in širšemu družbenemu svetu, bomo našli ritualno (ritualistično ali ritualizirano) komuniciranje. To je knjiga o ritualu, o literaturi o ritualnih študijah, o uporabi pojma ritual v literaturi o komunikacijskih študijah, o ritualu kot komunikacijskem fenomenu in o komuniciranju kot ritualnem fenomenu. Ukvarja se z rituali kot stvarmi, ritualnimi načini ukvarjanja s stvarmi in ritualom kot konceptom. Gre za bibliografski esej in teoretsko obravnavo. Morda si je zadala preveč ciljev na tako majhnem prostoru.
Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia reper... more Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia repertoires" and that media practices cannot be treated as unrelated practices performed on distinct platforms, the present study examined the digital sociability of young people and their media prosumption in a polymedia environment. Data were collected from group interviews of 67 12-to 19-year-olds and 59 personal visualised media sketches. The study focused on teenage engagement with news as part of their media repertoires and their understanding of what news is in the context of general platform sociability conditions, including a state of permanent connectedness and constant anticipation of something new. Their sociability based on permanent activity and affective engagement was enabled and framed by the algorithmically produced regime of visibility and the promise of liveness. The findings indicated that an important consequence of the increased fragmentation of activities is the naturalisation of the performance of multiple media practices at the same time. Although the complexity of such performance, even among teenagers, revealed socially distinctive categories, clear hierarchies between types of practices-such as watching news or pop culture, online shopping and doing homework-and the cultural differentiation of the dominant contexts for these practices-such as school and leisure-were eroded. The contexts of school, home, and leisure thus collapse, and the definition of important news journalism becomes highly unstable, with the distinction between pop and politics generally disintegrating.
Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia reper... more Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or "polymedia repertoires" and that media practices cannot be treated as unrelated practices performed on distinct platforms, the present study examined the digital sociability of young people and their media prosumption in a polymedia environment. Data were collected from group interviews of 67 12-to 19-year-olds and 59 personal visualised media sketches. The study focused on teenage engagement with news as part of their media repertoires and their understanding of what news is in the context of general platform sociability conditions, including a state of permanent connectedness and constant anticipation of something new. Their sociability based on permanent activity and affective engagement was enabled and framed by the algorithmically produced regime of visibility and the promise of liveness. The findings indicated that an important consequence of the increased fragmentation of activities is the naturalisation of the performance of multiple media practices at the same time. Although the complexity of such performance, even among teenagers, revealed socially distinctive categories, clear hierarchies between types of practices-such as watching news or pop culture, online shopping and doing homework-and the cultural differentiation of the dominant contexts for these practices-such as school and leisure-were eroded. The contexts of school, home, and leisure thus collapse, and the definition of important news journalism becomes highly unstable, with the distinction between pop and politics generally disintegrating.
Karantena je kot spopad z epidemijo prinesla transformacijo prostorsko-časovne dimenzije vsakdanjega življenja. Porušila se je fizična in družbena diferenciacija prostorov v vsakdanjem življenju (delo, počitek, zabava, zasebno, javno, ospredje, ozadje ...). Obenem so bili ukinjeni običajni interakcijski rituali, ko je digitalno komuniciranje potisnilo ob stran telesni vidik družbenosti in utelešeno interakcijo med ljudmi. Življenje v karanteni se tako prevladujoče dogaja v sintetičnih situacijah. Avtorji analizirajo medijske prakse »komunikativne figuracije« skupine študentov – sošolcev, pri čemer se osredotočajo na spremembo komunikacijskih praks v obdobju najstrožnjih omejitev v času epidemije v kontekstu intenzivne mediatizacije. Ugotavljajo, da je permanentna raba medijev okrepila integracije tehnologije in praks občinstvenja v vsakdanje življenje, naturalizacijo digitalne družbenosti in fragmentacijo pozornosti. To je spletna predavanja na platformi Zoom spremenilo v eno od številnih enakovrednih medijskih praks. Predavanja so tako zaradi tesne integracije v siceršnjo medijsko pro-trošnjo izgubila svojo ritualno distinktivnost in lokacijo zunaj komodificirane digitalne kulture.
UVODNIK: Članki v tematskem sklopu tematizirajo nekatere ključne družbene in kulturne spremembe t... more UVODNIK: Članki v tematskem sklopu tematizirajo nekatere ključne družbene in kulturne spremembe ter s temi spremembami povezano transformacijo vloge medijev v proizvodnji družbenega védenja in kulturnih ter materialnih praks, povezanih z mediji.
The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analys... more The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analyse the discursive strategies through which the print media in Slovenia represented 'Melania' as an ethnically born Slovenian on a national scale. The article also demonstrates how patriotism, based on the love and feelings of belonging to the Slovenian nation-state, was nationalized in the case of 'Melania'. The main argument is that numerous and repetitive media representations of 'Melania' aggressively put nationalism in the commercial context, and consequently transformed the nation into a commodity and an object of trade which can be sold and of which the Slovenians can make a profit. Consequently, the Slovenian press coverage of Melania Trump created her as a national brand meant to perform on the local, national market when merging emotional attitudes with commercial allure. The article concludes with the discursive strategies such as representing 'Melania' as 'ours', as a tool to accelerate the country's economic growth and as a branding strategy to sell the Slovenian landscape and culture and produce the Slovenian nation as an imagined commodity. Furthermore, such branding of the nation is directed towards domestic rather than international audiences.
The proliferation of new media since the late 1990s has launched a new period of revitalising the... more The proliferation of new media since the late 1990s has launched a new period of revitalising the concept of interactivity but from very different angles and with several empirical research perspectives. The article's main aim is to show the variety of ways in which researchers have conceptualised, examined and analysed interactivity within media and journalism studies. The paper provides insights into the various readings of the changes within the field and offers a cautious view of the concept's potential. Based on a selective meta-analysis of different approaches, we propose to distinguish three perspectives on interactivity: communication-and media-centred perspectives, audience-or user-centred perspectives, and production-or journalist-centred perspectives. This distinction enables us to differentiate between what is considered interactive, and who this interaction involves according to several scholars within media and journalism studies. Key words: interactivity, digital media, online journalism, online news, audiences
V članku proučujemo značilnosti komentar-jev na Facebookovih straneh najbolj obiskanih novičar-sk... more V članku proučujemo značilnosti komentar-jev na Facebookovih straneh najbolj obiskanih novičar-skih portalov v Sloveniji v obdobju 2010-2017. Pri tem se osredotočamo na družbeno nesprejemljivi diskurz (DND) v okviru dveh tem, ki sta v tistem obdobju delili javnost, in sicer na begunsko krizo in pravice LGBT (lez-bijk, gejev, biseksualnih in transspolnih) oseb.. Rezultati kažejo, da je delež komentarjev, ki izražajo DND, visok in stabilen-v obeh temah in vseh treh izbranih medi-jih znaša okoli polovico vseh komentarjev. Med portali so presenetljivo majhne razlike v notranji strukturi in značilnostih tovrstnega komentiranja, izraziteje se raz-likujejo po obsegu in vrsti DND. Ni pa mogoče z gotovo-stjo potrditi prisotnosti organiziranih oziroma poveza-nih komentatorskih kampanj. Rezultati ponujajo enega prvih vpogledov v značilnosti komentatorskega okolja v Sloveniji, časovne dimenzije komentiranja in poveza-nosti med komentatorji. Ključni pojmi: Facebook, novičarski portali, komentar-ji, analiza omrežij, begunci, LGBT
Th e article focuses on tourist practices in the context of social diff erentiation and distincti... more Th e article focuses on tourist practices in the context of social diff erentiation and distinction. It examines the cultural signifi cance of travel as classifi cation practice and thereby its role in constituting and reproducing class hierarchies in contemporary globalized (or de-territorialized) world, characterized with increasing transnational patterns of communication and mobility. Using the case of Slovenia, characterized by post-egalitarian sentiment, it argues that class today is constituted also through class-specifi c and intersecting modes of travelling and dwelling. Th e results show that in post-egalitarian Slovenia social groups reproduce their status also by monopolizing distinct travel practices and travel aspirations, while on the other hand many are limited or constrained in such (voluntary) mobilities. We thus demonstrate that class matters for how people orient themselves as regards travel and (physi-cal/geographical) mobility, although in the results only the fundamental tension between the (global) mobility of the advantaged and the (local) fi xedness of the non-privileged that is structured by cultural capital/class position is recognized, along with the highest travel aspirations of those in the middle of social structure. In general, the paper calls for accounts on mobility in relation to class identity formation to be sensitive to both its symbolic and material aspects.
This chapter discusses the evolution of selected multi-camera sitcoms in postsocialist media cult... more This chapter discusses the evolution of selected multi-camera sitcoms in postsocialist media culture in the case of Slovenia and Croatia. In order to consider the interaction of the local and the global as well as possible paradoxes and tensions in small-nation/post-socialist sitcom humour, the chapter analyses selected shows on the production, textual and audience level. On the production level the specifics of local production context, influenced especially by low level of audience fragmentation, are highlighted. On the level of representations authors argue that a specific one-layered, vernacular humour is a distinct characteristic of these shows and in the last part the connection between this kind of humour and the audience’s taste in comedy is emphasised.
Television comedy has rarely been studied from the perspective of class in a post-socialist conte... more Television comedy has rarely been studied from the perspective of class in a post-socialist context. This paper analyses representations of class, body, gender and nationality in the three most popular sitcoms of the last two decades in Slovenia, focusing especially on their role in working-class discourse and its transformation. Ambivalent representations of working-class characters are highlighted and put in the context of the egalitarian ideology which prevails in Slovenian popular culture. Drawing on the difference between workplace and domestic sitcoms, the paper concludes that the appearance and performance of working-class characters may be interpreted as a reworking of class boundaries in the post-socialist context. Sitcoms are thus considered as contributing to a process of re-demarcating class boundaries, yet with a subtle mockery at the level of their bodies rather than by explicit vilification of the lower classes in general.
KEYWORDS: Social class, television comedy, representation, body, working class
V: ROTHENBUHLER, Eric W. Ritualno komuniciranje : od vsakdanje konverzacije do medijsko posredova... more V: ROTHENBUHLER, Eric W. Ritualno komuniciranje : od vsakdanje konverzacije do medijsko posredovane ceremonije, (Knjižna zbirka Theoria, 1). Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2016, str. 7-34.
Avtor v članku analizira poročanje o »begunski krizi« v treh osrednjih slovenskih dnevnih časopi-... more Avtor v članku analizira poročanje o »begunski krizi« v treh osrednjih slovenskih dnevnih časopi-sih, Delu, Dnevniku in Večeru, v obdobju, ki so ga novinarji poimenovali »prvi in drugi begunski val«. Pri analizi se osredotoča na uokvirjanje problematike in na prevladujoče novinarske konven-cije, s katerimi se uprizarja objektivnost, pri čemer skuša prikazati temeljno protislovje pri poroča-nju o »begunski krizi«. Na eksplicitni ravni je namreč v dnevnih časopisih problem z distanciranim poročanjem prevladujoče uokvirjen s humanitarno krizo, v redkih primerih tudi z varnostno grož-njo, na konotativni ravni pa se z značilnostma poročanja, kot sta faktizem in epizodičnost, utrjuje prevladujoči strah pred množičnostjo beguncev. Poleg tega v poročanju prihaja tudi do odmika od konvencij objektivnosti in bolj angažiranega poročanja, kjer dnevne novice z zatekanjem k arhetip-skim podobam herojev delujejo podobno kot mit. KLJUČNE BESEDE: begunska kriza, migracije, novinarske konvencije, kakovostni tisk, objektivnost, faktizem
ABSTRACT Between Detachment and Engagement: Paradoxes in Reporting about the " Refugee Crisis " in Daily Press The paper analyses reporting about the " refugee crisis " in Slovenia's three main daily newspapers Delo, Dnevnik and Večer in the first weeks of mass migrations through the country that were named " the first and the second wave of refugees " by the journalists. The analysis focuses on the question of framing and on the dominant journalistic conventions through which objectivity is performed. The paper tries to reflect on the paradox in reporting these issues where the problem is dominantly framed in terms of humanitarian crisis on the explicit level and rarely as a security issue but on the connotative level factism and episodic framing suggest another reading of the problem that supports the fear of the imigrants. What is more, examples of more engaged reporting can be found where archetypal figures of heroes are called upon and where daily news functions similar as myth.
This paper explores journalistic strategic rituals in newspaper and television reports of domesti... more This paper explores journalistic strategic rituals in newspaper and television reports of domestic violence, emphasises the importance of formal aspects of the media representation of violence and argues that these institutionalised forms produce the (un)importance of the issue of violence as a public problem. The purpose of such deconstruction of conventional journalistic narratives is the denaturalisation of those standard procedures of telling and framing the news that mythologise violence as an effect of individual pathologies. By overlooking its social dimensions, they establish violence as a natural, i.e. acceptable part of performing masculinity and most importantly, the social background of violence remains unexplored regardless of genre, whether it is in episodic television news stories, daily news items in quality dailies or in journalistic documentary melodramas. The most important function of these ritualised conventions is thus not so much the consolidation of the truthfulness of messages as in the act of establishing and narrowing what can be said at all. KEYWORDS: journalistic rituals, factism, newspaper chronicle, balance, domestic violence
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In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media systems a... more Call for Papers In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media systems as environments reproducing patriarchal structures that work against gender equality in the media. Results of research at the national and global scales have reported similar results: women are less likely to work in top managerial positions in the media, on the average women journalists are paid less than male, larger numbers of women are engaged in precarious jobs than their male counterparts. Similarly persistent are inequalities in media representation where portraying women is often rife with stereotypes and pursuant of imaginings of women's domesticity. In addition, studies have shown how audiences have been constructed on perceptions that idealize women's roles in the private sphere, reproducing women as consumers. Feminist media studies have long been based on the idea that women's interests in the media are different that those of males. Consequently, research has demonstrated that women, when in leadership positions, can reform predominately masculine conventions or, in journalistic work, produce " different " news. Recently some scholars have been critical towards such " optimism " arguing that it contributes to naturalization of stereotypical gender roles, and have shown that women can work to reproduce the masculine newsroom culture same as males do. This conference is interested to explore various dimensions of gender differentiation in contemporary media industry as they are reproduced at the level of media production, representation and consumption. The aim is in shifting the focus from researching relative underrepresentation of women in the media to analyse structures and practices of engendered media systems ˗ a shift from what to why. As a corpus of existing literature addressing gender in media at the " European periphery " is thinner if compared to studies elsewhere, we particularly welcome contributions addressing situations in Central-Eastern-South European countries (but not exclusively). We specifically target studies addressing gender in television and online media (but are not limited to these).
In particular, we are interested in contributions addressing: - Feminization of media work, - Media work environments and gender roles, - Media policy from a gender perspective, - Epistemologies addressing gender and media (political economy of communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis etc.), - Attempts at reconciliation between “material” and “cultural” analysis, - Gender representation in media texts, - Intersectionality approach and masculinity studies in media system analysis, - Gender differences in imagining audiences, - Gender and media consumption.
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Karantena je kot spopad z epidemijo prinesla transformacijo prostorsko-časovne dimenzije vsakdanjega življenja. Porušila se je fizična in družbena diferenciacija prostorov v vsakdanjem življenju (delo, počitek, zabava, zasebno, javno, ospredje, ozadje ...). Obenem so bili ukinjeni običajni interakcijski rituali, ko je digitalno komuniciranje potisnilo ob stran telesni vidik družbenosti in utelešeno interakcijo med ljudmi. Življenje v karanteni se tako prevladujoče dogaja v sintetičnih situacijah. Avtorji analizirajo medijske prakse »komunikativne figuracije« skupine študentov – sošolcev, pri čemer se osredotočajo na spremembo komunikacijskih praks v obdobju
najstrožnjih omejitev v času epidemije v kontekstu intenzivne mediatizacije. Ugotavljajo, da je permanentna raba medijev okrepila integracije tehnologije in praks občinstvenja v vsakdanje življenje, naturalizacijo digitalne družbenosti in fragmentacijo pozornosti. To je spletna predavanja na platformi Zoom spremenilo v eno od številnih enakovrednih medijskih praks. Predavanja so tako zaradi tesne integracije v siceršnjo medijsko pro-trošnjo izgubila svojo ritualno distinktivnost in lokacijo zunaj komodificirane digitalne kulture.
KEYWORDS: Social class, television comedy, representation, body, working class
Link to full text: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6uX2uJDTdXCFFSY22Ay/full
Karantena je kot spopad z epidemijo prinesla transformacijo prostorsko-časovne dimenzije vsakdanjega življenja. Porušila se je fizična in družbena diferenciacija prostorov v vsakdanjem življenju (delo, počitek, zabava, zasebno, javno, ospredje, ozadje ...). Obenem so bili ukinjeni običajni interakcijski rituali, ko je digitalno komuniciranje potisnilo ob stran telesni vidik družbenosti in utelešeno interakcijo med ljudmi. Življenje v karanteni se tako prevladujoče dogaja v sintetičnih situacijah. Avtorji analizirajo medijske prakse »komunikativne figuracije« skupine študentov – sošolcev, pri čemer se osredotočajo na spremembo komunikacijskih praks v obdobju
najstrožnjih omejitev v času epidemije v kontekstu intenzivne mediatizacije. Ugotavljajo, da je permanentna raba medijev okrepila integracije tehnologije in praks občinstvenja v vsakdanje življenje, naturalizacijo digitalne družbenosti in fragmentacijo pozornosti. To je spletna predavanja na platformi Zoom spremenilo v eno od številnih enakovrednih medijskih praks. Predavanja so tako zaradi tesne integracije v siceršnjo medijsko pro-trošnjo izgubila svojo ritualno distinktivnost in lokacijo zunaj komodificirane digitalne kulture.
KEYWORDS: Social class, television comedy, representation, body, working class
Link to full text: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z6uX2uJDTdXCFFSY22Ay/full
ABSTRACT Between Detachment and Engagement: Paradoxes in Reporting about the " Refugee Crisis " in Daily Press The paper analyses reporting about the " refugee crisis " in Slovenia's three main daily newspapers Delo, Dnevnik and Večer in the first weeks of mass migrations through the country that were named " the first and the second wave of refugees " by the journalists. The analysis focuses on the question of framing and on the dominant journalistic conventions through which objectivity is performed. The paper tries to reflect on the paradox in reporting these issues where the problem is dominantly framed in terms of humanitarian crisis on the explicit level and rarely as a security issue but on the connotative level factism and episodic framing suggest another reading of the problem that supports the fear of the imigrants. What is more, examples of more engaged reporting can be found where archetypal figures of heroes are called upon and where daily news functions similar as myth.
KEYWORDS: journalistic rituals, factism, newspaper chronicle, balance, domestic violence
In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media systems as environments reproducing patriarchal structures that work against gender equality in the media. Results of research at the national and global scales have reported similar results: women are less likely to work in top managerial positions in the media, on the average women journalists are paid less than male, larger numbers of women are engaged in precarious jobs than their male counterparts. Similarly persistent are inequalities in media representation where portraying women is often rife with stereotypes and pursuant of imaginings of women's domesticity. In addition, studies have shown how audiences have been constructed on perceptions that idealize women's roles in the private sphere, reproducing women as consumers. Feminist media studies have long been based on the idea that women's interests in the media are different that those of males. Consequently, research has demonstrated that women, when in leadership positions, can reform predominately masculine conventions or, in journalistic work, produce " different " news. Recently some scholars have been critical towards such " optimism " arguing that it contributes to naturalization of stereotypical gender roles, and have shown that women can work to reproduce the masculine newsroom culture same as males do. This conference is interested to explore various dimensions of gender differentiation in contemporary media industry as they are reproduced at the level of media production, representation and consumption. The aim is in shifting the focus from researching relative underrepresentation of women in the media to analyse structures and practices of engendered media systems ˗ a shift from what to why. As a corpus of existing literature addressing gender in media at the " European periphery " is thinner if compared to studies elsewhere, we particularly welcome contributions addressing situations in Central-Eastern-South European countries (but not exclusively). We specifically target studies addressing gender in television and online media (but are not limited to these).
In particular, we are interested in contributions addressing:
- Feminization of media work,
- Media work environments and gender roles,
- Media policy from a gender perspective,
- Epistemologies addressing gender and media (political economy of communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis etc.),
- Attempts at reconciliation between “material” and “cultural” analysis,
- Gender representation in media texts,
- Intersectionality approach and masculinity studies in media system analysis,
- Gender differences in imagining audiences,
- Gender and media consumption.