International studies, Vol. III No. 3, 2003.
Conference paper
Content Analysis of the Internet Edition of "Slobodna Dalmacija" about National Minorities in the Period June-December 1999 and 2002
Slobodan Bjelajac
; Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences and Educational Fields, University of Split, Croatia
Neven Duvnjak
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar - center in Split
Abstract
U sing the method of content analysis the authors of the pa per prepared an elaboration of the articles on national minorities, which were edited in the Internet edition of »Slobodna Dalmacija« in the period June-December 1999-2002. They chose three days in the week for the analysis (Monday, Thursday and Saturday) as well as the columns »Novosti« (News), »Teme dana« (Topic of the day), »Ekonomija« (Economy), »Kultura« (Culture) and town columns of Split and Zadar. The pilot-research established that the articles in which national minorities are mentioned weren't pubished in the columns »Ekonomija«, »Kultura« and town columns of Split and Zadar, and therefore the contents analysis was applied on the articles published in columns »Novosti« and »Teme dana«. 2063 articles have been examined and minorities were mentioned in 81 articles (3,9%). Quantitative and qualitative analysis showed that the majority of articles on minorities are published within a certain political context and it is mostly a certain political event or incident that gives a motive to publication of the article. Rarely can we find articles on everyday life of the minorities while there are no references to their culture and art. National minorities are usually mentioned in a general term and there are a very few articles dedicated to a certain minority. Even then the articles refer to the members of Serbian and ltalian minorities while Bosniacs and Albanians are mentioned only once. No other minority has been mentioned on the web-side of »Slobodna Dalmacija« during the period of the research. Furthermore, minorities have been given a superficial approach in no more than one or two sentences and the type of writing is partial and unified to a certain extent. Conditionally speaking, the articles with negative coloring prevail while the articles that treat the subject in a neutral or positive manner are quite rare. ln brief, the politics dominates even in the topics such as national minorities, neglecting other issues related to their life in the Republic of Croatia.
Keywords
content analysis; internet edition of "Slobodna Dalmacija", newspaper article; national minorities; quantitative and qualitative analysis
Hrčak ID:
286849
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Publication date:
30.9.2003.
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