News
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The Research Agency’s annual report with »Excellent in Science 2021«
The Slovenian Research Agency's 2021 Annual Report includes the selection of scientific achievements »Excellent in Science 2021«.
Publication in Media and Communication
Daniel Thiele and Tjaša Turnšek published an article How Right-Wing Populist Comments Affect Online Deliberation on News Media Facebook Pages.
New article in Gender, Technology and Development by Rok Smrdelj and Mojca Pajnik
New article in Gender, Technology and Development by Rok Smrdelj and Mojca Pajnik.
Mojca Pajnik was elected full professor
We are proud to announce that our colleague Mojca Pajnik was elected full professor. Congratulations!
Public letter to the Czech Minister of European Affairs and the EU Ministers of European Affairs on the Regulation of Political Adverstising
We and other 33 CSOs are addressing a letter to all EU Ministers for European Affairs to provide our recommendations for a text that protects democracy and fundamental...
Regulation of Political Advertising in the EU report
The Peace Institute contributed to a report on the regulation of political advertising in the EU.
Projects
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Defending and strengthening the role of civil society and journalists in protecting democracy in Slovenia
Defending and strengthening the role of civil society and journalists in protecting democracy in Slovenia.
Defending watchdog role of civil society and journalists in Slovenia – extended project phase
The project aims to increase resilience of civil society organisations and journalists in Slovenia to sustain their watchdog role.
Resilience: Civil Society for Media Free of Hate and Disinformation
The project ‘s aim is to reaffirm media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in Western Balkans and Turkey’.
Study on sustainability of professional journalism in media business environment in the Western Balkans
The study, developed for the TACSO 3 project, aims at providing the assessment of the media landscape in six Western Balkan countries from an economic perspective.
BEHAVE – SEE Beyond Hate: Learning and Acting to Counter Hate Speech Online in South East Europe
The project aims at mutual learning on countering hate speech online and at responding to hate narratives in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, countries on the Balkan migration route.
SUPPORT: developing innovative models of support and communication for NGOs
Consortium partners address the problem of lowering democratic standards in Slovenia and reducing the space for civil society organizations to work in the field of human rights, equality and...
Publications
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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.
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...
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.
Study on Media Plurality and Diversity Online
Published by European Commission. Brankica Petković from the Peace Institute also participated in the research in collaboration with the European University Institute in Florence.
Intersectionality: Perspectives on Structural, Political and Representational Inequality
The book’s focus is on the concept of intersectionality, and it examines it by analysing policies and public discourses in Slovenia over the last twenty years, i.e. during a...
Article The Intertwining of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Democracy Backlash: Making Sense of Journalism in Crisis
This article explores how the combination of the public health crisis and the authoritarian government of Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party, along with its tendency to politically instrumentalize and...