News
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New book “Democracy and Media in Europe – A Discursive-Material Approach” by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer
The book offers an in-depth look into media’s role in fostering informed citizenry, fair representation, vibrant democratic debates and participation while addressing the threats to democratic systems and the...
Authoritarian populism and media
At the annual meeting of the Slovene Sociological Association in Koper, during the roundtable discussion titled "Interchanging Media and Politics: Opportunities for Authoritarian Populism," we analyzed the relationship...
AFEMED Researchers at the ECREA Conference: Exploring Communication in Times of Social (Dis)Order
AFEMED topics and concepts were well represented at the 10th European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) conference on “Communication and Social (Dis)Order.
Round table: “Media and the ‘illiberal turn’: enablers, victims, or channels of resistance?”
Join us for an engaging discussion on the role of media in the current political climate!
On the possibilities of network analysis in the context of ownership structures of Slovenian media
We hosted Doruk Şen, PhD in Engineering Management, to adequately grasp the method of network analysis, which represents the next step in the analysis of the media structures in...
Attention economy
Co-organized by the Maska Institute and the Center for Social Communication Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana a discussion on the topic of the attention...
Projects
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Affective Media: Transformations of Public Communication
The study examines the “affective turn” in the media which has marked a series of changes, ranging from the digitalisation of newsrooms and new forms of employment to the...
Mapping Media for Future Democracies
Establishing an up-to-date overview and understanding of the state of democracy in the European Union, its challenges, strengths and threats, and the roles and functions of media and journalism...
Our Media: A civil society action to generate media literacy and activism, counter polarization and promote dialogue
Increased media activism and participation of CSOs in policymaking.
Defending and strengthening the role of civil society and journalists in protecting democracy in Slovenia
Defending and strengthening the role of civil society and journalists in protecting democracy in Slovenia.
Defending watchdog role of civil society and journalists in Slovenia – extended project phase
The project aims to increase resilience of civil society organisations and journalists in Slovenia to sustain their watchdog role.
Resilience: Civil Society for Media Free of Hate and Disinformation
The project ‘s aim is to reaffirm media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in Western Balkans and Turkey’.
Publications
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Article / Professionalizing Emotions as Reflective Engagement in Emerging Forms of Journalism
The author analyses how journalists articulate emotions as "special effects" with the potential to motivate and engage the public in the age of hybrid media.
Chapter / Transformations of the Media Sphere: Amplifying Opportunity Structures for Populism
The chapter addresses the links between populism and the media by shifting the focus from understanding "media populism" as a political style to addressing structural changes in the media...
Article / Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey
The article aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions on authoritarian populism and the media, from the lens of the political economy of ownership.
Article / Aligning populist worldviews of citizens to media preferences: peculiarities of an illiberal political context
In this article the authors look at how people’s relations to the media shape their anti-establishment, people-centrist and exclusionist populist worldviews.
Article How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages
This study focuses on debates on 10 Facebook pages of Austrian and Slovenian mass media during the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015–2016.
Article Intersectional representation in online media discourse: reflecting anti-discrimination position in reporting on same-sex partnerships
Taking the example of online media reporting on same-sex partnerships in Slovenia, the authors analyze how power relations are reinforced when one type of media discourse fails to acknowledge...