{"title":"Polish Mass Media Coverage and Public Opinion on E-democracy","authors":"Magdalena Musiał-Karg, Izabela Kapsa","doi":"10.20901/MS.12.23.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/MS.12.23.1","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of new technologies and their impressive communication capacity has fundamentally changed modern democracy by providing easy and universal access to information, as well as increasing participation and accessibility of political involvement tools. One of the electoral participation tools is e-voting which has been used in only a few countries. The main aim of the paper is to explore whether and how e-voting has been presented in Polish mass media (1), as well as to investigate people’s opinions about e-voting against certain political factors (2). The research is based on a media content analysis (quantitative and qualitative), data collected via the Content Analysis System for Television (CAST) and a quantitative analysis of data from a survey conducted by the authors (2018, sample: 1717 Poles). The results of the analyses show that the debate on the implementation of e-voting is rather poor, but the support for e-voting among Poles remains considerable. The public media rhetoric is interlinked with attitudes towards political parties. To some extent, determinants are reflected in the public opinion on the implementation of e-voting since Poles declare both their support for the introduction of e-voting and willingness to vote online.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46448750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sentiment Analysis of the Syrian Conflict on Twitter","authors":"D. Lucić, Josip Katalinić, Tomislav Dokman","doi":"10.20901/MS.11.22.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/MS.11.22.3","url":null,"abstract":"Social media have become an important means of imposing ideas and interests in social conflicts. The Syrian conflict is analysed using sentiment analysis of tweets in order to establish how the sentiment shapes the modern political landscape and influences recipient knowledge. The importance of social networks and their potential in overthrowing regimes as well as in radicalization are highlighted. The authors suggest several stages that can be used for analysing tweets and how they impact the reader with selected narration. Sentiment analysis is used on a trained data set as a way to gain insight into tweets of different factions in the Syria conflict. Selected tweets on missile strikes were published on 14 April 2018 and the day after. The Twitter profiles of three different sides – pro-Assad, pro-West and anti- Assad – were also analysed. The results show that there is a real battle on social media with the purpose of influencing human emotions.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42685398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotionalization and Privatization of Political Communication on Facebook","authors":"Milica Vučković, Tanja Oblak Črnič","doi":"10.20901/MS.11.22.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/MS.11.22.1","url":null,"abstract":"Social media are usually accused of being one of the major forces for personalization of political communication and consequently for depolitization of recent politics. However, personalization seems to stimulate certain users to pay more attention to political issues and to act more responsively to such highly personalized political profiles. This article presents the results of a longitudinal analysis of online presence of Barack Obama to assess his political communication through Facebook. It also answers if presence of emotional appeals and private life cues in the posts have any effect on users’ responses in terms of numbers of their likes, comments and shares. Based on a quantitative analysis of 2804 Facebook posts, published in the period from 2008 to 2016, the results of content analysis revealed that Obama used his Facebook fan page almost exclusively to communicate about political issues instead of his personal life. The analysis also confirmed that a smaller number of posts, which contained emotional appeals or cues from private life had significantly higher numbers of users’ responses than posts that were not emotionalized or privatized. While personalization of Obama’s political figure is part of a wider debate, this study confirms that the presence of private cues and emotional appeals stimulates greater responsiveness from Facebook users.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45866020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uloga novih tehnologija u borbi protiv lažnih vijesti","authors":"Tanja Grmuša, Lordan Prelog","doi":"10.20901/MS.11.22.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/MS.11.22.4","url":null,"abstract":"Konvergencija medija praćena razvojem novih tehnologija nastoji osigurati upotrebu pristigle informacije na svim komunikacijskim kanalima koje medijska organizacija posjeduje, a preduvjet za spomenuti način rada je integrirana redakcija. Takav pristup podrazumijeva suradnju donedavno strogo razdvojenih odjela, osoblja i tehnologije, koji moraju biti educirani i osposobljeni za rad u digitalnom okruženju. Velik je to izazov i za profesionalne novinarske standarde zbog imperativa brzine, ali i promjene načina komunikacije izvora s medijima. S druge strane, promjena uloge publike koju čine aktivni kreatori masovne komunikacije traži kontinuirano provjeravanje etičnosti kanala i komunikatora, a sve s ciljem jačanja vjerodostojnosti medija koji gube povjerenje konzumenata u odnosu na društvene mreže. Dubinu komunikacijske krize koja je vrhunac doživjela inflacijom lažnih vijesti prepoznala je i Europska komisija koja naglašava važnost samoregulacije. Istodobno, tehnološki divovi i digitalne platforme pokušavaju dati svoj doprinos u razvoju automatiziranih (fact-check) sustava vođenih umjetnom inteligencijom, koji bi trebali olakšati novinarima, urednicima, ali i korisnicima prepoznavanje društveno štetnih komunikacijskih formi. Cilj je rada istražiti iskustva hrvatskih novinara s radom u integriranoj redakciji, kao i njihov odnos prema cjeloživotnom obrazovanju te profesionalnim standardima struke u digitalnom dobu kojima veliki izazov predstavljaju lažne vijesti te ispitati primjenu umjetne inteligencije u provjeri informacija i borbi protiv dezinformacija.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49145384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Komercijalni FM radio u kontekstu hrvatske medijske politike","authors":"Marina Mučalo","doi":"10.20901/ms.11.21.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.11.21.5","url":null,"abstract":"Komercijalni privatni radiji dominiraju hrvatskim radijskim krajolikom. Razvijali su se od sredine 90-ih godina, od čega se posljednjih 15 godina sustavno financiraju javnim sredstvima iz Fonda za poticanje pluralizma i raznovrsnosti elektroničkih medija. Rad problematizira hrvatsku medijsku politiku koja je proteklih godina u cijelosti zanemarila razvoj neprofitne i javne radiodifuzije, prepuštajući medijski razvoj zemlje tržišnim instrumentima i komercijalnim sadržajima. Recentna istraživanja pokazuju da se ta vrsta radijskih programa doživljava kao jednolična glazbena kulisa koja gubi povjerenje slušatelja. Rad otvara pitanje daljnjeg razvoja hrvatskoga medijskog sustava pri čemu istaknutu ulogu imaju institucije koje su odgovorne za njegovo oblikovanje.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43690005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Coverage of Different Scientific Disciplines in the Croatian Daily Press","authors":"Adrijana Šuljok","doi":"10.20901/ms.11.21.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.11.21.3","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this research was to determine the changes in frequency and characteristics of media reporting of different scientific disciplines in the socio-historical context in which they arise. The research was conducted using the method of content analysis, which comprised Croatian daily newspapers with the highest readership in two time periods: ’socialism‘, from 1986 to 1988, and ’democracy‘, from 2006 to 2008. The constructed week method was used to select a total of 885 articles. The findings confirm the specificities in media communication of particular scientific disciplines in different socio-political contexts, as well as a tendency of levelling media practices in line with global trends, such as growing orientation towards medicalisation and socio-spatial domination of ’Western‘ news.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.20901/ms.11.21.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44266904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Binge-Watching? The Prominent Motives and Analysis of the Motivating Hedonic and Eudaimonic Elements of Emotional Gratification in a Binge-Watching Experience","authors":"Vesna Karuza Podgorelec","doi":"10.20901/ms.11.21.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.11.21.1","url":null,"abstract":"Binge-watching is a popular form of media consumption, and entertainment is one of the main drivers of this activity. This research aims to examine the prominent reasons for binge-watching by re-examining the established television viewing motives, by deepening the analysis of entertainment motives, and by introducing a new possible motive – the need for narrative understanding. Therefore, the researcher combines the factors of the established television viewing motives, the factors of hedonic and eudaimonic emotional gratification in an entertainment experience and introduces the motive of the ease of following storylines. The results of an online survey with 833 participants over the age of eighteen conducted in Croatia suggest that the motives of relaxation, fun (hedonic), habit, easier following of intricate storylines, escape, and thrill (hedonic) are prominent. Eudaimonic motives are less pronounced than hedonic ones, however, these clusters are positively related, which indicates the complexity of enjoyment in binge-watching entertainment.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.20901/ms.11.21.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45442360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Analysis of the Political Discourse of Exceptionalism in the American Sniper Movie","authors":"Hamdallah Akvani, Abdolvahed Zarifi, H. Fakhraei","doi":"10.20901/ms.11.21.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.11.21.2","url":null,"abstract":"Political discourse usually tends to diffuse itself in other discursive fields. One of the areas through which the political field can be reproduced is the field of popular culture, especially films. Moreover, language serves as the intermediate variable in which political discourses in the media offer themselves more or less ideologically. In this paper, the language of the film American Sniper and its relation to the exceptionalism discourse in the politics of the United States is reviewed. It addresses the major question of how the discourse of American Sniper is related to the three layers of exceptionalism discourse. The analysis of the three discursive levels of description, interpretation and explanation of the film based on Fairclough’s model reveals that, by following Hollywood’s dominant framework of discourse towards Islam and the Middle East, i.e., the ‘Islamophobia’ discourse, the film depicts Islam as ‘Other’. The discourse of the film ultimately resides in a wider social action that is congruous with the concept of the political language of exceptionalism.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.20901/ms.11.21.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43900501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stereotypes of Old Age","authors":"Christiane Monteiro Machado, Jorge Pedro Sousa","doi":"10.20901/ms.10.20.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.10.20.4","url":null,"abstract":"Ageing, more than a demographic phenomenon (a consolidated process in Europe, still a recent one in Brazil), is a social construction influenced by the media. Advertising, which simultaneously reflects and contributes to the construction of social values, uses stereotypes as a tool for creating easily identifiable characters. This study aims at identifying aspects explored by advertising messages using stereotypes to portray older people. The sample consists of nineteen pieces selected from more than 4,500 posts on Facebook and Youtube by the ten companies with the largest advertising spending in Brazil from July 2017 to June 2018. Among the 104 pieces that feature elderly people, nineteen did use stereotypes. In twelve of them, positive stereotypes, always related to longlife accumulated experience, while seven included negative traits, such as elderly people losing touch with reality, having difficulties with technology, poor social interaction, physical impairements, or old-fashioned clothing. Negative stereotyping reflects an outdated perspective of the ageing process.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.20901/ms.10.20.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44631218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neprestana povezanost i strah od propuštanja u svakodnevnim interakcijama mladih licem u lice","authors":"Sebastijan Ivasović, Ivan Burić","doi":"10.20901/ms.10.20.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.10.20.2","url":null,"abstract":"U ovom eksplorativnom istraživanju provedenom u Zagrebu putem promatranja bez sudjelovanja i dubinskih intervjua nastojali su se otkriti učestalost, obrasci i motivi uporabe pametnih telefona za vrijeme druženja mladih pripadnika generacije Z (osobe rođene u periodu kasnih 90-ih godina 20. stoljeća i u prvom desetljeću 21. stoljeća) licem u lice, kako bi se istražila potreba za neprestanom povezanošću mladih i s time povezan strah od propuštanja. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da mladi za vrijeme druženja licem u lice pametne telefone koriste kako bi premostili pad intenziteta razgovora i generirali nove teme, s varijacijama u dinamici uporabe koja ovisi o veličini grupe i kvaliteti poznanstva članova. Dodatno, istraživanjem je otkriveno da su mladi neprestano povezani po navici – naročito oni koji se nalaze u ljubavnoj vezi. Neprestana je povezanost, u načelu, rezultat dosade i želje za zabavom, a takva povezanost može dovesti do stresa i straha od propuštanja. Taj se strah manifestira u situacijama kada mladi ostaju bez pametnog telefona zbog čega se osjećaju „odsječenima od svijeta“. Također, zbog visokih očekivanja neprestane komunikacijske prisutnosti mladi osjećaju pritisak za brzom komunikacijom, što generira stresne situacije.","PeriodicalId":41574,"journal":{"name":"Medijske Studije-Media Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.20901/ms.10.20.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44644306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}