Przekształcenia i zmiany w agencjach informacyjnych w Polsce

Author(s): Renata Piasecka-Strzelec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The study presents the current trends seen on the Polish news agencies market in 2014–2016. The author characterizes the situation of the agencies in the digital age. It also analyzes the changes that have a direct relationship with both the creation of new entities, as well as the situation of public media in Poland. Also takes account of the presence of Russian propaganda on the Polish media market associated with the activities of the information agency „Sputnik” and the direction of the processes taking place in the field of information agency in Russia.

Nowe formy dystrybucji polskich filmów fabularnych

Author(s): Katarzyna Kucia / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The emergence of new internet channels distributing audio-visual content has transformed traditional models of film distribution. This article presents an overview of internet-based VOD services in Poland (as per April 2016) as well as outlining the main issues for Polish film Copyright holders in their attempts to monetise products via the World Wide Web within the wider context of European and global market trends.

Status prawny utworu fotograficznego w świetle ograniczeń praw autorskich

Author(s): Katarzyna Błeszyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The photograph, after fulfillment of the statuary requirements constitutes a work – as defined in the Polish copyright law. The Legislator infinite the copyright for the overriding reasons, such as informing, or the right of access to the information. The article draws attention to the specifics of the rights appearing in the photographic work and purpose of this limitation. Special emphasis is being put on issues related to reprint of reporter’s photographs, citation, as well as the usage of photograph in satire and caricature.

Elementy autoprezentacyjne w serwisie informacyjnym radia lokalnego

Author(s): Krzysztof Kaszewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The article describes how the radio station presents itself in the news service and elaborates on the position of self-presentation in the global structure of the news service and in single news programme. The purpose of the article is to discuss the roles, function and qualities of the radio stations as well as the language that is being used. The paper is based on fi ndings from more than 100 news services broadcast by 15 radio stations located in Warsaw, Cracow and Poznan.

Crowdfunding i bariery wejścia na rynek muzyczny

Author(s): Patryk Gałuszka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The paper elaborates on empirical data in order to analyze the extent to which crowdfunding reduces barriers to entry into the Polish music market. Analysis is based on semistructured interviews conducted with emerging artists, who use crowdfunding to fi nance production of their records. The data suggests that impact of crowdfunding on the music market is positive albeit limited. These artists fi nd it diffi cult to promote themselves after releasing the records. The paper makes attempts to map potential barriers in access to media such as radio or press.

Wolność i pluralizm mediów w epoce cyfrowej: działalność Rady Europy i Unii Europejskiej w 2015 roku

Author(s): Alicja Jaskiernia,Michał Głowacki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Современные медиа– механизмы и средства убеждения

Author(s): Walentyn N. Wandyszew / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2015

Mass media are active participants of the political and economic processes, and therefore have an impact on the formation of meanings and opinions. Media are represented as a system of stereotypes of mass consciousness which are known as ‘ideologemes’. One of the most widespread and effective forms of the concealed influence on the conciseness of the audience is a manipulation with terms and images. Influence, which advisedly misleads the recipient, appears on three different levels: individual, group and mass. Media of the authoritarian and, especially, totalitarian regimes have much more influence on the free choice of civic position, differentiation of social groups, their confrontation and struggle.

Profil użytkownika mediów społecznościowych – osobisty newsroom 2.0?

Author(s): Jacek Nożewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

The article presents the similarities between user profile and traditional newsroom in social media. Users are able to distribute and specify which materials will be a part of information flow. Personalization of their own accounts allows users for shaping internal information space and external sphere of disseminated news. Users and media companies participate in the same stages of news creationand use similar tools offered by social networking sites for messages distribution.

Artykuł publicystyczny w świadomości genologicznej dziennikarzy prasowych

Author(s): Mateusz Kasiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

The journalistic article is present in the genealogical consciousness of journalists practitioners and scientists of humanities studies. However, the understanding of journalistic article is rather unclear. This paper presents scientific reflection on the article, understood here as one of the basic journalistic genres. All of this when bearing in mind that in the existing literature journalistic article in is not defined as a separate journalism species. It is rather being described by its characteristic features.

Stefana Kisielewskiego rozbrat z „Tygodnikiem Powszechnym”

Author(s): Kamila Kamińska-Chełminiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

Stefan Kisielewski worked for „Tygodnik Powszechny” for nearly 45 years. He was one of the most popular editors of the paper. His friendship with Jerzy Turowicz was not the easiest one. This was due to their different visions of the role that „Tygodnik Powszechny” was to play, but also due to Kisielewski’s very character. He left the weekly in 1989, however, he did not delete his name from the publisher’s imprint. To the surprise of many people he began to regularly give telephone interviews to another weekly paper – „Wprost”.

“Binge-Watching”: The New Way of Watching TV Series

Author(s): Srđan Krstić / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2018

In this paper I deal with the concept of the binge-watching of television series episodes. The word binge means a period of excessive indulgence in an activity. Particularly, in terms of media theory, it becomes synonymous with obsessive, marathon watching of TV shows and movies through streaming television. The central hypothesis is that binge-watching goes beyond what has for previous decades been considered a generally accepted way of watching TV content. In order to better understand this notion, it is also necessary to explain the importance of non-linear television and its distinction in relation to ‘traditional’ or linear television. I will pay special attention to social networks as an indispensable factor that completes the binge-watching experience. Social networks are also involved in the peripheral specifics of binge-watching that lead to the emergence of new occupations, which are in direct correlation with the desire of viewers to be informed about their favorite TV content. I also performed a case study of the TV show Pretty Little Liars (PLL). This show had strong effect on connecting creators with viewers through social networks. As a relatively new phenomenon, binge-watching has the potential to soon become an interesting subject of research.

The Birth of the Post-Socialist Eastern European Televisual Collectivehood: Crime and Patriarchy in Shadows [Umbre, 2014–]

Author(s): Anna Bátori / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2018

The global proliferation of media distribution platforms, such as Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu or HBO Go, and their support for local productions have entered the Eastern European region into a new quality televisual age. Thanks to the innovative industrial and technological framework and the transformation of production, exhibition and distribution practices in the era, the post-2000 epoch gave local filmmakers and media practitioners the opportunity for national self-expression that contributed to the birth of new narratives and aesthetic forms. By focusing on the Romanian series Shadows [Umbre, 2014–], the present article investigates the very local tone of Eastern European crime series produced by HBO Europe. This paper examines and enumerates the reasons for the proliferation of the genre, while discussing its local characteristics that, as argued below, gave birth to a collective Eastern European televisual collectivehood.

Tricky Questions and Straight Answers About Ethics in Breaking Bad and The Wire

Author(s): Sanja Kovačević / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2018

This paper explores how the television series Breaking Bad argues about the ethics of Social Darwinism as dominant to the interest of the community, and why this is not just philosophical or religious question. It also makes a brief comparison with the ethical situation as portrayed in another television series, The Wire, claiming that these substantially different series, (one approaching morality and ethics through sheer individualism and free will, another through social determinism) both teach similar lessons about ethics. Having its main theme centered around ethics, Breaking Bad sees causes of socio-economical crises primarily in the moral destruction of modern society that destroys its institutions, not the other way around. In contrast, The Wire finds human morality in a dichotomy of an idealist-pragmatist type of man trapped inside the social systems that brutally arrange human lives through ‘the Game’ – in essence the socio-economical rules of urban life. I argue that Breaking Bad offers more arguments for not engaging in ‘Darwinist’ ethics, showing us in both literal and metaphorical ways the entire process arising from totalitarianism as today’s most feared form of social system.

I Love Dick: A Pop-Cultural Investigation of Desire and the Female Gaze

Author(s): Ana Fazekaš / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2018

This paper intends to outline an analysis of the Amazon series I Love Dick, based on the pseudo-autobiographical theoretical fiction by experimental (self-described ‘failed’) filmmaker Chris Kraus. The series completed its first season in 2017, and it appears it will not be coming back for a second, as its non-cushioned feminist agenda and sophisticated intertextual elements seem to have not resonated with the mass audience. However, the series brings into popular/mass culture not only an erratic contemplation (mind the oxymoron) on intersectional feminism, but a provocative uncensored performance of female desire. Jill Soloway, creator of the series, insists on its being a celebration of the female gaze, which begs the question what is the aesthetic and political significance of what we could call the female gaze. The series is not solely an adaptation, it is an artistic reaction to the text, adding characters and changing some of the premises of the text, while remaining true to the general project. This article aims to map out some of the intertextual elements in the series and provide an interpretation based mostly on revisiting Laura Mulvey’s critique of narrative cinema in the framework of psychoanalytic theory, as the fictional Chris passes through the fantasy, slides through the chain of signifiers, challenging Dick/the phallic element, and finds her creative power in the very subversive act of – accepting failure.

Reality on the Screen: The Subject of the Dystopian Future/Present. Thoughts on episode “Fifteen Million Merits” of Black Mirror

Author(s): Bojana S. Radovanović / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2018

Currently one of the most controversial and intriguing science fiction series on television, Black Mirror (Channel 4, Zeppotron, 2011–present) gained worldwide popularity through dealing with the issues of technologically-driven society of the near future. The levels of similarity and dissimilarity with contemporary Western society are carefully balanced in order to make a significant cognitive and psychological impact on viewers.This paper focuses on analyses of the second episode from the first season, titled “Fifteen Million Merits”. In it, people spend most of their days in an automated, high technology environment, surrounded by video screens. Their attention is focused mainly on performing one rather mundane task (cycling on stationary bicycles), and their sparse interpersonal relationships are also carried out through a particular kind of social network. The screens are also the source of fulfillment of individuals’ consumerist and diversionist leanings. Having in mind the theorization of the subject in cyber-space and screen as an interface, as well as questions that emerge from the field of contemporary media ecology, the primary objective of this article is to investigate the complex relations between human subjects and their virtual realities, the entertainment industry, and communication technologies.

Edukacja medialna w świetle debaty nad tożsamością nauki o mediach. Dotychczasowe paradygmaty a neuropoznawcza ścieżka metodologiczna

Author(s): Alicja Waszkiewicz-Raviv / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

In perspective of the ongoing debate about the ranges of media studies, the paper proposes paying closer attention to the important field of research, which is the media education. The paper quotes Polish and international defi nitions of this concept, emphasizes its various aspects and shows the evolution of the term together with an indication of possible empirical analysis. Location of media education in McQuail’s three traditions of media analysis is accompanied by examples of recent research in this area. Methodological suggestions are also presented, namely stemming from cognitive science and developing brain research. As a sum up, the paper proposes an original definition of media neuroeducation. The trial to locate the proposed research field in the existing paradigms of media education was also taken, along with identifying the holistic approach to integrate physiological and social variables.

Prasa szkolna – definicja, cechy, funkcje. Studium przypadków województwa zachodniopomorskiego

Author(s): Paulina Olechowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

The article describes the school press, as an example of the local (or more precisely) environmental types of press. It briefly discusses the history of the school periodicals, with particular emphasis on their role in the Second Republic of Poland. Due to the existing definitional disputes article proposes the re-wording of the “press school”. Based on content analysis of school periodicals appearing in Western Pomerania in 2010–2014 it described the contemporary school press, bearing in mind the types, characteristics, and functions of the school press. The latter put the emphasis on contribution to educational process and fostering demands of media education.

Strukturalny przełom w greckich mediach publicznych – „samorządny” model medialny czy kolejna emanacja modelu śródziemnomorskiego?

Author(s): Tomasz Fraszczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

This article analyzes the liquidation of the Greek public media service company (ERT) and its consequences for the Greek electronic media market and the political scene. The author focuses on social reactions concerning the closure of ERT with the special emphasis on discussions in social media and platforms fostering citizen (participatory) journalism. A theoretical base of the analysis is founded on the Mediterranean (polarized pluralism) model of media and politics (Hallin & Mancini, 2004), of which the Greek media system is considered to by the best example. Overall, the “ERT case” is treated here as another example of traditionally strong media-political relations in Greece.

Problemy wolności i pluralizmu mediów w polityce medialnej Unii Europejskiej

Author(s): Alicja Jaskiernia / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

The principle of subsidiarity in the EU refers to the principle that the Member States define the ways to protect media freedom and pluralism. However, the European Union has taken important initiatives to promote freedom and pluralism of the media and the reduction of market concentration. In that regard, different approaches of the European Parliament and the Commission can be sometimes observed. This article presents the most important documents and analyzes the current actions in that particular area of EU media policy.

Nowe technologie oraz walka z zagrożeniami wolności mediów. Zmiany personalne w obszarze polityki medialnej oraz zapowiedzi nowych regulacji i działań w Radzie Europy i w Unii Europejskiej

Author(s): Alicja Jaskiernia,Michał Głowacki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2015