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Police never established that Alexander Sokolov continued the work of a banned group seeking ‘responsible’ government, Memorial says.
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Russian pranksters had duped the British singer into thinking Vladimir Putin had reached out to him – now he actually has.
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The study is based on analysing Praktická žena, a popular women’s magazine that was successful enough to survive the “times of transformation” on the Czechoslovak media market in the 1990s. It is focused on the relationship between the content of the magazine and the official ideology of the 1980s, defining women’s role in the society of that time, women’s everyday life problems and social changes after 1989. The text follows the development of Praktická žena as an ideologically controlled “lifestyle” magazine of the socialist era to the hobby magazine of the present, and deals with the changing evaluating of DIY activities, such as homemaking of clothes and interior decoration, in the Czechoslovak society.
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The leadership of National Democrats (ND) appreciated the significance of political press publications, creating many party press organs. The leaders of ND headed by Roman Dmowski, Zygmunt Balicki and Jan Ludwik Popławski were themselves experienced editors and publishers of nation-wide and local periodicals. They raised a number of younger political journalists who expanded the press system of ND in the independent Poland. Those journalists proved skilfull in (1) coding and decoding of communiques, (2) using imaginative forms of thinking, (3) quick interpretation of political phenomena and instantenous reacting to them, (4) carrying out languistic negotiations. In the political propaganda battles, ND was capable of employing slogans, using shortcuts and simplifications. The party proved that it was able to use the political language to manipulate social moods and attitudes. The language of political defavourisation in the ND publications was a language of political exclusion. It exclued from the national life members of political groupings which competed with ND (in particular the members of the political group of „Sanacja”), national minorities (mainly Jews and Germans), as well as members of secret associations (masonry) and illegal political parties such as communists. This language built up rigorous conditions and procedures in the conceptions of Polishness, the Nation, national interest, national identity etc. It was to protect the nationalist system of values against enemies: political, ideological, religious, cultural. It reflected the spirit of the historical era with its characteristic socio-cultural, political and economic transformations.
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The subject of this paper is a multimodal presentation of the European Union through written texts published by the media, from Serbian speaking areas, between 2004 and 2014. The analysis of multimodal means was conducted from a social semiotic perspective, by applying multimodal critical discourse analysis, which implies an analysis of the coordinated use of diverse semiotic resources such as language, images, colours and gestures. All the elements whose function is to produce a particular effect on a heterogeneous group of readers or viewers were analysed. The aim of this study is to interpret the manifestation of the European Union ideology in contemporary media in a new way. Therefore, a particular selection of multimodal texts related to this topic was made. The theoretical and methodological framework of the research is critical discourse analysis which deals with language as a form of social practice, which means that it views language within its social context. Since this paper looks at a media discourse of the data collected from the Serbian language, the principle of statistics was applied. As a result, significant information was isolated in the use of language and multimodal elements. In corpus analysis, methods based on hermeneutics were used, particularly the ‘hermeneutic circle’, in which pre-understanding ensures understanding, and prior understanding of the text is being corrected and updated with subsequent understanding of the whole (part-whole relation; whole-individual part relation). The corpus analysis is accompanied by corresponding statistical measures which, expressed both numerically and as a percentage, refer to the representation and frequency of the chosen language and multimodal units in the analysed texts. The research was conducted on the corpus consisting of texts published by the most eminent domestic agencies, publishing or media houses, which were chronologically analysed in order to establish whether the social and political changes in Serbia were reflected in the discourse of the European Union. All the elements of the texts, both language and multimodal, were analysed on the basis of a defined plan and research model made of a three-layer text analysis which comprises a) analysis of language (linguistic analysis), b) image analysis accompanying the discourse and c) gesture analysis (the body language of people in pictures). As all the analysed texts from Serbian speaking areas, show a certain degree of ‘patternising’ in regards to the use of multimodal elements and attitude towards the European Union presented in a text (affirmative, neutral and negative), this paper presents conceptual patterns of texts. The theoretical contribution of this research paper represents the establishing of mathematical correlations which lead to the conclusion that a text message is more precisely encoded if it is followed by multimodal means, and that the greater amount of information obtained by multimodal resources contributes to the intensifying of a text message meaning. Considering the defined relations between multimodal elements and texts, as well as the identified forms and patterns of multimodal texts, this paper can contribute to the creation of diverse marketing materials.
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The Article reflects on the influence and distortion of mass media in modern days. Its original role of a bearer of truth, accurate information and its role, nowadays, used mainly to manipulate the audience to achieve a specific reaction. The overwhelming forces of media are illustrated on the examples of the American conflict with Iraq from 003 to 2010 starting with the World Trade Centre Attack and ending with the opinion of the polish audience concerning the American-Iraqi conflict. The article is divided in two parts, analyzing mass media and the foreign policy of George W. Bush over Iraq after September 11, 2001 and the role of US and Polish media in the process of citizens’ preparation for the conflict in Iraq. The first part approaches the importance of mass media for U.S. foreign policy against Iraq, created by President George W. Bush, especially after the September 11, 2001. It shows also how far society is involved in the maintaining of this policy. The article focuses on the influence of media during conflicts and how the public opinion and military actions influence one another. The second part focused on the supposed role of media to inform and prepare the people for conflicts. Instead, the society is overwhelmed with information so the risk shows, that the necessary news get partially lost. To prove this distortion a survey was made showing an accordance to the given information with different newspapers, radio and TV stations. Regarding the increasing of fear and misleading public opinion the Polish media did not react differently than the American. This process resulted in the opinion of polish society that their military forces should join the conflict in order to protect their freedom and safety.
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Prijelaz iz 19. u 20. stoljeće za Antuna Gustava Matoša (1874. — 1914.) prošao je u bježanju od vojne obveze i četrnaest godina emigracije — prvo u Srbiji, koja mu je pružila »prvo utočište«, a nakon kraćeg zadržavanja u Beču, Münchenu i Ženevi, u Parizu, na Zapadu, za kojim je »žudio i odavna čekao«, pa »da budem bliže Zagrebu, po drugi put u Beograd 1904.« otkuda potajno navraća u Zagreb — i tako sve do amnestije 1908. kada se napokon vraća u domovinu.
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The National Independence Day has been in the process of transformationsince 2011. The nature of the experience accompanying the celebration has beenchanging, as have been the ways in which freedom is manifested by Poles. Themedia have become increasingly focused on the conflicts associated with experiencingthe festivities of 11 November, making the celebration political ratherthan patriotic. The aim of this article is to show the press image of IndependenceDay in weeklies with different viewpoints. The study will be conducted using twoof the most popular periodicals which were among the most popular periodicalsat the end of 2010. The subject of the media analysis will be two weeklies: “Polityka”and “Przewodnik Katolicki” and, specifically, the editions which appearedaround the date of 11 November in 2011 to 2014. These considerations will besupplemented by a discourse analysis of the two media debates in questions conductedin these two periodicals.
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There is no doubt that not only in modern society, but also in the life of everysingle person, information and the ability to use it (primarily its acquisition,processing, storage and forwarding) are key issues. These issues have becomeso important that this infrastructure and the network that exists thanks to it thatallows us to operate with information emerged as an integral part of man’s naturalenvironment in the XXI century. One of the serious threats that exists in the above‑described human‑environment system is the overwhelming of the firstelement by the other. My proposal for helping man to maintain an appropriaterelationship with the “info‑component”of his environment is infoascetics. Verygenerally speaking, it is to be a concept regarding the proper distance towards this“info‑reality”.
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This article intends to analyze the creation of the image of the Polish volleyballplayers (on selected examples) in the social media (especially Facebook). The authors will attempt to answer the question how the Polish volleyball players,who are the representatives of Poland, build their image and interact with fans byusing the social media.The analytical part of the article is preceded by the theoretical introduction,which, first of all, will present the phenomenon of the social media and second ofall, will show the potential range and influence of the social media by giving thespecific numbers of their coverage in Poland and in the world. The second partwill discuss theoretical issues of sport marketing. In the third part, the authorsanalyze the profiles of the selected Polish volleyball players in the social media.
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The aim of the study was to determine the image of pope Francis on Polishfanpages on Facebook. As the results of the analysis of two selected ones weresimilar, the presented article will describe one of them in detail. The posed researchproblem is best described with the following specific questions: What doesthe pope say on the selected fanpage? What does he do? Who is he? How does helook? In order to answer these questions, the methodology of content analysis wasused. The results of the analysis present an interesting image of pope Francis asseen by the users of social media. Also, information was obtained on the activitiesof Facebook users who are interested in pope Francis as presented in the givenfanpage.
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The article is presenting the picture of polish national culture in citizen mediathat is being constructed on the basis of content analysis of citizen media. In the contemporary world, in public discourse and in media the popular culture is being overrepresented, although the national culture is the core of one’s identity.The national culture is the basis of self‑identification.Despite the popular culturedominating presence, the question about the place of the national culture in journalists’ content has been asked. To the analysis the citizen medium, where everyreceiver can be also the sender of the message and where the content shows whatordinary citizens would like to be informed about, has been chosen. The content analysis shows that the national culture is not only present in thenews, but also many of its elements have been represented in citizen journalists information. The freedom, sovereignty, patriotism, openness and tradition are still the most valued values. And even though new elements come to the national culture, its core stay on still the same.
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Książka Creative paths to Television Joornaslism (CPtTJ) prof. Jacka Dąbały jest pozycją, która porządkuje szereg zagadnień dotyczących dziennikarstwa telewizyjnego. CPtTJ składa się z dwóch głównych części. Pierwsza z nich, zatytułowanaThe Priority of Dramaturgy, koncentruje się wokół tematyki dramaturgii medialnej, zjawisk związanych z przekazem informacji, creative writing oraz tematów dotyczących aksjologii dziennikarskiej. Druga część pt. Afirmation of the Art of Presentation zbudowana jest wokół praktycznych odniesień do dziennikarstwa telewizyjnego, jak np. komunikowanie poprzez wizerunek, kwestii związanych z językiem prezentera, jak również trudności związanych z pracą dziennikarza telewizyjnego.
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