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The Return of Media – Party Parallelism
The Return of Media – Party Parallelism

Author(s): Jan Křeček
Subject(s): Media studies, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: Czech media system; media ownership; media parallelism; quantitative media analysis;

Summary/Abstract: In the theoretical introduction, the paper presents political parallelism in the media as a key concept when studying media and political actors/systems, it lists its forms and identifies four ways/areas for its manifestation/identification. Using this lens, it looks back at the individual stages of modern Czech political communication and its media-scientific reflection, in which it identifies determining themes and typical methods/studies. The main part of the essay consists of a content analysis of the periodical Forum 24 (forum24.cz) and evidences its party-parallelistic relationship with regards to the ODS. These findings are finally interpreted as an indicator of the onset of a new stage and there is a brief discussion of the hypothesised changes in the Czech media system, respectively, in the nature of the public sphere.

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 577-586
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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