Naslov
The media contribution to the County of Istria multiculturality in the regional daily newspaper “Glas Istre”

Autori
Vukić, Tijana ; Maras Benassi, Hermina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
ECREA 2018 Book of Abstracts / - Lugano : USI Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018, 300-301

ISBN
978-88-6101-019-2

Skup
ECREA Conference: 7th European Communication Conference (ECC 2018)

Mjesto i datum
Lugano, Švicarska, 31.10.2018. - 03.11.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
the mass media, national minorities, County of Istria, multiculturality, Glas Istre, media contents analysis

Sažetak
By reflecting, but also reacting to the social- political-economic circumstances, the mass media thematise multiculturality as one of the most recent issues in the contemporary European and Croatian history. Today’s democratic systems imperatively regulate many minority rights enabling them to preserve and develop their identity but the obligation of equal media representation has not been met. In addition, activities undertaken by non- governmental national minority associations give a great contribution to their integration. This is also true for the Republic of Croatia, where members of 22 national minorities live. Studies about this controversial media content, which has been studied in Croatia since the middle 1990s, show that minorities are mostly reported about through political columns and topics. Up to the present time, there has not been any qualitative study dealing with this specific subject in the County of Istria. Therefore, here is presented the relationship of the media topics between the centre and periphery on three levels: Republic of Croatia – County of Istria ; Croatians – national minorities ; Italians – other minorities in the County of Istria. The hypothesis has been set stating that the only regional daily newspaper Glas Istre has an important role in the inheritance of multiculturality in the County of Istria. This newspaper in the Croatian language enables minorities to be informed about their, but also general, national and regional activities. In other words, it has been assumed that in daily reporting about minorities segregation does not exist, but the media content reflects the quality and quantity of a certain minority’s activity and its numerousness in the whole regional population ; that minorities have not been presented through conflicts and that political topics do not prevail, but the media content, contrary to the one in other parts of Croatia, offers a contribution to minority values and identity, as well as to the struggle against prejudices and stereotypes. Therefore, the aim of this research was to, by analysing the media content, determine the quality and quantity of the printed media contents in the regional daily newspaper Glas Istre about the seven most numerous national minorities in the County of Istria (Italians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Romani), on a random sample of newspaper articles (606) in the period from 1 July to 30 November of the years 2015 and 2016. The results have confirmed that the most common topic contents are about Italians and that minority topics in main columns appear in a relatively similar proportion. In general, Glas Istre does not present the life of minorities in the County of Istria through conflicts, nor does it largely connect it to politics which indicates that, contrary to reporting about minorities in the Republic of Croatia, in the County of Istria it is neither politicised nor favoured. The centre should, thusly, follow the presented peripheral model of media conduct, i.e. the practice held by the regional newspaper which, contrary to other daily newspapers in Croatia, regularly observes all forms of their activities and reports about minorities in an objective and positive way.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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