Projects / Programmes
Ethnic Groups from the Former Yugoslavia Living in Slovenia - in the Media Context
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.06.00 |
Humanities |
Culturology |
|
media, ethnic minorities, ethnicity, boundaries, identity, nationalism, regionalism, integration processes
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
07653 |
PhD Karmen Medica |
Anthropology |
Head |
2004 - 2007 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The media is becoming an ever more central institution in every society. It"s role in the everyday life of every single individual is all important. Purpose of the present research is to identify the possibilities for ethnic groups/minorities from the former Yugoslavia, living in Slovenia to create their own media presence. That is to say what are the possibilities that these ethnic groups will get "their place" within mainstream Slovene media. The work will be founded upon the theses that social stability and development is more thoroughly achieved via the integration of minority groups members - or, in fact, of any individual within a given society - than via assimilation be it open, closed, direct, indirect, slow or hypocritical. A good example of this can be found in the Scandinavian countries, which strive for equal expression in the media using the native languages of immigrant groups. This is intended to strengthen self-esteem and the successful functioning of all individuals in society. One of the results of this research is knowledge that in the society gets clear necessity to allow to introduce media problems of ethnic groups from the former Yugoslavia living in Slovenia in the mainstream Slovene media. First of all that means at RTV. Results of analyses could present also a very important part of everyday life in Slovenia: the identification of specific events from everyday life, mobility, cultural contacts and similar factors could serve an integration force in the creation of a common social context in the future.As media issues are linked to minority issues, the question arose about how the media contribute to the formation and creation of a cultural dialogue between the minority and majority population. Finally, media figure as an important link between minority and majority populations, as well as between minority populations and same-ethnicity nation state populations, in the processes of social communication. One of the questions for present analyses is how and to what degree current political changes affect minority media or presence in the mainstream Slovene media. Equally, further study of that issues should explore the possibility of setting up a communication and information network that would encompass the same-ethnicity nation state, the minority, and migration processes in Slovenia - including ethnic transformation through the mixing of the autochthonous minority with ethnic groups from the former Yugoslavia, living in Slovenia and majority population.All these questions point to the issue of contacts, understood as a new creation, as an alternative or new cultural model based on an ethnically heterogeneous society.
