Publicity contributed significantly to the democratic social order; it legitimized the media as constitutive of the public and public opinion. Despite the enormous technological and social changes in the era of globalization, there are still many "old" assumptions about the public sphere which remain in force, but also many "old" contradictions unresolved. More than new interpretations of public sphere, efforts are needed for publicity as a personal right to communicate in public, surveillance of the public over government (governance), and mediation between the state and civil society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28979805
The 2009 ESF ‘position paper’ Vital Questions describes the current state and future prospects of the social sciences in Europe. Although the terms ‘governance’ and ‘globalisation’ have become popular all over the world, research on globalisation and governance is characterised by many open theoretical and empirical questions that need to be addressed and important conceptual and analytical challenges that have to be overcome.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29182813
The analysis of the institutional embeddedness of public opinion polling reveals its structural similarity to certain institutionalised political processes, such as elections and referenda. That’s why opinion polls should be addressed as part of an institutionalized political system, rather than ‘scientific instrument’. This contribution explores how the invention of polling influenced broader social-theoretical conceptualizations of public opinion; how the nature of relationship between public opinion and the nation-state has been theorized, and how it has been challenged by globalization.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29184861
In television news programs, a new genre appeared which relies on the use of mobile telephone cameras. In this article, the authors were the first to conceptualize genres as discursive categories and demonstrated the usefulness of an expanded genre analysis. Mobi news items are produced as a denunciatory participatory practice in which audience participation is managed by the television production team: journalists define the content and the structure of the news, while the audience’s activity is reduced to spying and denunciating.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28407645
Media audiences presume that journalists produce editorial content, while advertisers pay for the publication of advertisements. However, for some time now, journalists and academics have been pointing out that relations between the main participants of news production have been changed. In this article, the authors reveal for the first time that the key actors of advertorials production (advertising messages in the form of news) are advertisers, as they are the initiators of this practice; they define the content and the form of publication to achieve commercial benefit.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29159517