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Internet freedom is increasingly fraying at the edges, as government critics on social media sites face physical assaults.
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Ramzan Kadyrov seeks a new aide – anyone can enter, only one will win.
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During the Illyrian Movement there were several German-language journals in Croatia: alongside »Luna« and »Croatia«, issued in Zagreb 1826–1858 and 1839–1842 respectively, another notable journal was »Der Pilger« from Karlovac. Due to its poor preservation, extensive research into this journal is still pending. This article relies on those issues which have been preserved by the National and University Library in Zagreb and have in the meantime also become available in digitalized form. The article provides both basic bibliographic information about the journal and an extensive summary of its content. In so doing, it draws special attention to imagological constructs of foreign and domestic geo-cultural spaces as well as the presence of Croatian literature in the journal.
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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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The media in Western (and Eastern) Europe are in a serious crisis. The gap between published and public opinion is steadily widening. The crisis of Romanian transformation policy and political communication is reflected in a media crisis and more generally in a crisis of trust in political institutions. The disappointment with sluggish political and social change is growing. The article describes the political, social, cultural and intellectual background and the problems of the present Romanian political and public discourse. The main reason why since the end of communist dictatorship no fundamental change towards an open and “impartial discourse” could be achieved is seen in the persisting deficits of democratic transformation and political communication.
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The author analyses the role of the radio news bulletin, based on the example of “Fakty” on the RMF FM radio station. In this, he uses the theory of persuasive techniques researched by M. Gajlewicz; however, he also takes into account linguistic aspects of the communication and modern rhetoric understood as effective persuading. The purpose of the article is to prove that radio news on a commercial radio station is not actually just “pure” information; a neutral informative style is consequently displaced by the rhetorical style, full of intentionally used linguistic mechanisms, to make the information more persuasive.
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The era of digitization has led to a shift in radio from a strictly audial character toward audio-visual experiences. This article aims to characterize the transmedia actions performed by the Radio Four Polish Station and Radio Eska. In the cases described, a convergence has been carried out on the technological level which allows for information to be transmitted more succinctly. Yet, it is still characterized by its ephemeral and linear nature, which remains a unique feature of traditional media. The article presupposes that the television medium is not flexible and autonomic enough towards time and space to dominate radio broadcasting.
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The autobiographical documentary has a number of elements that resemble those of a reality show. Such documentaries can be considered a response by young directors to this TV genre and its celebration of voyeurism. The purpose of this article is to outline the similarities and differences between these two genres. The article consists of four parts: the first discusses the essence of the autobiographical documentary, the second focuses on the reality show, the third analyses the movie Moje dwadzieścia okrążeń by Łukasz Konopa, and the fourth is a summary of the considerations made in the text.
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The aim of this paper is to discuss selected rhetorical strategies applied by journalists during television interviews, as well as to consider whether they demonstrate the professional skills of journalists, or if they should be treated as examples of violating journalistic ethics and standards. The following three interviews have been analyzed in this paper: of Tomasz Lis (with Lech Wałęsa), Monika Olejnik (with Jacek Kurski) and Jacek Żakowski (with Leszek Miller). The author presents the rhetorical strategies used by the journalists and concludes that – as strategies involving the prevention of interlocutors from speaking and presenting their views, misinterpretation of information and journalists’ malevolence – they should be considered incompatible with the ethics of journalism.
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The text describes selected publicistic programmes produced in 2013 by the regional branch of Polish National Television in Łódź. The author makes use of such analytical tools as modern rhetoric & stylistics, the study of non-verbal communication (including colours and their meaning), and mechanisms for persuasion and manipulation in the media. Based on the analysis carried out, the author assesses the quality of programmes and their role in the TV schedule, taking into account the context of their public mission.
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One of the primary tasks of local (but also regional) media is “to promote the local culture”. Analysis of two cycles of historical programmes produced by TVP Łódź by Piotr Słowikowski, Biała broń (1986) and Rekwizyty historii (1994–1999) shows that regional television programs are exceeding the limits of locality, both at the level of content (in their presentation of Polish material culture and traces of history) and implementation (documentation and shooting took place outside the province of Lodz). These programmes can be seen as an attempt by regional television to contravene local parochialism.
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The article analyses a collection of 52 editorials published in 19 national journals between 1989 and 2011 directly following general elections. The purpose was to establish how an editorial in the Polish daily press of that time evolved, if it was a form used by editors to make official statements about important social events, how the relationship between texts’ functions were shaped, and how this affected the meaning content of published material. It was established that at first editorials highlighted the fundamental significance of the results of general elections for the creation of a new political and social order in Poland and emphasized the obligation this imposed on both voters and those seeking election. In the mid-1990s, authors regarded the act of voting as an important and proven tool for putting public life in order that did not always serve its purpose. In the 21st century, publicists were more inclined to perceive the mechanisms of democracy through a personal dimension. The editorial gradually drifted away from being a text which focused on the election and participation in it as exceptional and seminal. It started to become a collection of the author’s personal evaluations and of conclusive opinions on the current political situation. Not lacking in judgmental statements, it was meant to provide an understanding of a situation rather than to urge to a specific action. Commentators evaluated the outcome of each election, referring to detailed issues, such as turnout, the potential, anticipated difficulties the winner of an election would face, and the factors that would determine the outcome. The anticipation of upcoming events remained an essential feature of the editorial; authors, however, gradually retreated from advising politicians on specific solutions.
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In today’s era, in which visual communication and multimedia dominate, a direct result of this has been the development of genres based on the visual transfer of information. The visualisation of information connects the communicative goals of a journalist with the reader’s expectations. Infographics, which combine a graphic representation of information with an understandable, dynamic and updated form of presentation is becoming a crucial form of informative discourse. This form can be an element that enriches a text, but it can also function as an autonomous journalistic genre, with its own categories and varieties. Data journalism, i.e., journalism based on figures and statistics, is very closely connected with infographics; its aim is the collecting, filtering and interpreting of data (e.g. by means of infographics). Thus, the skill of storing data is becoming very important in a journalist’s work, comparably important to interpretation and presentation. Figures, percentages and statistics are significant sources of information, as well as means of telling and creating a story. They may also be used as a source of entertainment and a means of engaging the reader; the phenomenon of “datatainment” (derived from sport), meaning the use of data for the sake of provoking a reader’s interaction, provides proof of this.
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The article discusses image development in “Parallax” (an internet magazine devoted to computer games), with a special focus on aspects of visual identification. The article presents the characteristics of “Parallax”, the stages of building its image, and the building of the brand, with special attention paid to issues such as the design of name, logo, typography, and the selection of the appropriate color. The aim of the study is to demonstrate how conscious image building affects perceptions of the e-zine. Thanks to developments in interactivity, the mass media communication model is changing. The engagement of the sender and receiver provides clues for the proper functioning of this new-born journalism type, which is a key contributor that is rapidly gaining importance in relation to traditional media types. The author reveals plans to increase the contribution of graphic, visual aspects in internet media models when comparing them to “paper” media, which often seems to be underestimated by publishers and explains its importance for identity creation in internet media.
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