Books in the Studies in communication and politics series

Influence of politics on media, corruption of media and stereotypes related to the social minorities are, according to the authors, the most significant problems of the 21st-century Slovak media. This book explains why the existence of public media is important and why alternative media fail to inform truthfully, impartially and objectively.

In this book, the author examines the media coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by six Polish media outlets in 2014 and 2015. Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, the author shows how cultural and historical factors, as well as the national security threat to Poland, affected the media image of the conflict and its domestication.

The authors address the key challenges which the mass media in Slovakia has been facing since 1993, including social function of the media in journalistic communication and gender stereotypes in social networks and advertising. The book also discusses the question of forming a theoretical basis for the creation of mass media communication.

This book is focused on the mutual relations between the media elites and the political elites in Poland in the context of the opinion-forming journalism model, the autonomy of journalists, the politicization of the media, the political subjectivity of recipients, and the politicization of cultural discourse.

This publication is a collection of socio-political studies on the phenomenon of political communication in the 21st century and changes caused by the use of new technologies. The book explores the phenomenon of political communication in Germany, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, the USA and Zimbabwe.

This work takes a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to analyze journalism cultures in selected Central and Eastern European countries. The analysis is being conducted with a reference to general features and characteristics of journalism in Central and Eastern Europe; national case studies from Poland, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria etc. follow.

Journalistic professional culture is changing globally. But are the changes the same in different media systems? The study compares journalists in Poland, Russia and Sweden in different dimensions, ideals, practices and social groups. The result illustrates a global journalism developing in relation to the different countries' context.

This book analyses the adaptivity of public service media to the digital network age. Terrestrial, analogue public service broadcasters - PBS - of the 20th century appear, on the surface, to have made a successful transition into becoming 2nd millennia public service media - PSM - in the digital network age.

The book explains when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy. The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internationally. The Polish case shows how a country in Europe attempts to impact the public opinion formation abroad.

This book is a collection of essays about democracy and relations between media and politics in Central and Eastern Europe, a topic which has been much discussed in a variety of publications and during international and national conferences. The papers analyze the models of media systems, journalistic autonomy and the state of media freedom.

The book provides an analysis of the way various political and religious actors seek to influence the Church and state relationship as well as how we understand the idea of the secular state. A set of case studies shows how and why changes in the coverage of the secular state and Church-state relations have followed the dynamics of mediatization.

A media system develops and grows within social, media and economic systems. The dynamically evolving Polish media system is under the influence of institutions and external stakeholders. The "crossroads" is not only a problem of the Polish media system. The analysis shows it in the broad global, European and Centro-European context.

The volume offers an insight into populist political communication in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, France, Israel, Poland, and Romania. The book contributes to answering questions regarding the relations between populist actors, media, and citizens. The publication captures the multi-dimensional nature of populism across Europe.