Communication, Culture and Politics












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            * Communication, Culture and Politics
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            This research area focuses on the study of communication, and its intersections with the c

            political fields, with particular attention for processes of power, ethics, meaning, ident
            agency and structure. While some of the research is located in more traditional settings, 
            media industries, political communication, social and public service media, and audience s

            projects extend the definition of media by looking at alternative/community media, museums

            Examples are the team's:

            • participation in the Worlds of Journalism Study [ URL "https://worldsofjournalism.org/"]
              international comparative study

            • participation in the MISTRA environmental research programme, with a focus on the constr
              meaning in media and the arts
            • research into online media and their potential for political and civic participation, as

              political campaigns
            • research into Czech media history, especially television
            • research into photojournalism and digital technology

            • comparative research in every day life cultures and lifestyles




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            * Selected outputs (in alphabetic order)

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            • CARPENTIER, Nico (2017). The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community 
              Participation. New York: Peter Lang.

            • DOUDAKI, Vaia – BOUBOUKA, Angeliki (2019). Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The C
              Economic Crisis in Greece. London: Routledge.
            • SHAVIT, Anna – JIRÁK, Jan (2017). The Role of Political Advertising in the Czech Republi

              BACHA, Christina – JUST, Marion R. (eds.).
              Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 113–122.
            • SŠTEFANIKOVÁ, Sandra – LÁB, Filip. (2018). Transformation of photojournalism practice in

              Republic in the age of digital technology. Journalism 19(2), pp. 234–251.
            • ŠTOLL, Martin (2019). Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia: From the First D
              Republic to the Fall of Communism. New York: Bloomsbury.

            • TEJKALOVÁ, Alice N. et al. (2017). In Media We Trust: Journalists and Institutional Trus
              Post-authoritarian and Post-totalitarian Countries. Journalism Studies. 18(5), pp. 629–6