Publications
Featured publications
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Article / Authoritarian populism and structural limitations on journalism in selected European countries
A comparative article on the structural limitations of authoritarian populism on journalistic practices in Eastern and Central Europe.
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Book / What Kind of Government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition
Springer has published the book What kind of government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition, edited by Vlasta Jalušič and Wolfgang Heuer.
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Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.
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Book / Ethnic Discrimination: Strategies of Research and Measurement
The book presents in detail and critically evaluates different ways of “measuring” ethnic discrimination, breaking new ground in the field of empirical data collection on unequal treatment as well...
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Article / Legislative and Judicial Responses to the “Refugee Crisis” in Slovenia and Austria: A Comparative Perspective
In the last issue of the journal ‘Dve domovini/Two Homelands’, Neža Kogovšek Šalamon compares the key normative approaches to responses to the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis” in Slovenia and Austria.
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Article Intersectional representation in online media discourse: reflecting anti-discrimination position in reporting on same-sex partnerships
Taking the example of online media reporting on same-sex partnerships in Slovenia, the authors analyze how power relations are reinforced when one type of media discourse fails to acknowledge...
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Article / Media Instrumentalization from Transition to Authoritarian Populism
The study explores media instrumentalization in Central and Eastern Europe through the perceptions of journalists in Croatia, Hungary, and Slovenia. Authors: Fanni Toth, Mojca Pajnik and Lana Zdravković.
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Structural Masculinism and Women’s Media Ownership in the Context of Authoritarian Populism
An article co-authored by Marlene Radl, Burçe Çelik, Mojca Pajnik & Birgit Sauer on structural masculinism and women's media ownership in the context of authoritarian populism has been published...
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Enhancing the hybrid media system model: The role of critical theory in media and communication research
The main contribution of the article is to show that critical theory strengthens the explanatory power of the current eclectic-empirical media models without fundamentally undermining their foundations.
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Article / Professionalizing Emotions as Reflective Engagement in Emerging Forms of Journalism
The author analyses how journalists articulate emotions as "special effects" with the potential to motivate and engage the public in the age of hybrid media.
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Chapter / Transformations of the Media Sphere: Amplifying Opportunity Structures for Populism
The chapter addresses the links between populism and the media by shifting the focus from understanding "media populism" as a political style to addressing structural changes in the media...
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Article / Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey
The article aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions on authoritarian populism and the media, from the lens of the political economy of ownership.
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Article / Aligning populist worldviews of citizens to media preferences: peculiarities of an illiberal political context
In this article the authors look at how people’s relations to the media shape their anti-establishment, people-centrist and exclusionist populist worldviews.
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Article How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages
This study focuses on debates on 10 Facebook pages of Austrian and Slovenian mass media during the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015–2016.
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Article Intersectional representation in online media discourse: reflecting anti-discrimination position in reporting on same-sex partnerships
Taking the example of online media reporting on same-sex partnerships in Slovenia, the authors analyze how power relations are reinforced when one type of media discourse fails to acknowledge...
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Characteristics of propaganda-oriented media systems
A detailed presentation of how propaganda-oriented media systems work and why it is necessary to oppose them is presented in the following analysis.