This chapter explores the extent to which the principle of publicity—the defining ethical principle of “the public,” “public opinion” and “public sphere”—is related to personal freedom of expression, the expansion and diversification of (mass) communication, democratic process, and global governance.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30132061
The research of the Slovenian media and advertising production practice in 2009 indicated a new form of censorship, not yet described in the existent scientific and professional literature. Its key characteristic is that the initiator of censorship is a media representative, prevalently a journalist himself/herself. It appears in two forms, i.e.: a) as a publication of a hybrid item; and b) as prevention of publishing negative information about an advertiser.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29602141
As no study has so far researched the production process of advertorials, the goal of this article is to reveal the productions process behind unethical and illegal advertorials – to uncover the main actors, their motives and responses to this practice. The study showed that the key actors are advertisers; they define the content and the form of a publication to achieve commercial benefit.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29159517
The paper analyses journalistic representations of the new border regime in two national daily newspapers and two daily newspapers from Primorska region from both sides of the border. A critical discourse analysis revealed discourses of borderless Europe, border as the Iron Curtain, border as the Schengen fort, border as a life problem, and non-problematic border as proof of the Croatian state’ efficiency. Only the regional media critically represented the new regime.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30127453
The paper deals with the representations of Otherness in Slovenian situation comedies. Drawing on the critical approach to humour it is highlighted why the humour in analyzed sitcoms is not subversive but with constant mocking and stereotyping of outsiders serves to reinforce existing social order and moral boundaries. To oppose the ‘insiders’, usually of Slovenian origin, male and heterosexual, different ‘outsiders’ are created and represented stereotypically.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29651293