Review article
REPRESENTATION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES AND THE PRESENCE OF ETHNIC-MINORITY MEDIA IN THE CROATIAN MEDIA SPHERE
Drago Župarić-Iljić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5654-4080
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
With the production of their own media material, the ethnic minorities assume
responsibility for opposing the predominant media discourses of the majority
culture, and fight for their own distinctiveness and (self)representation within
the Croatian media sphere. The ethnic-minority media serve not only the purpose
of preserving the socio-cultural values and special features of the minority
identity, but also of providing information both to a particular community
on the intra-ethnic level and to the majority of the Croatian society regarding
the situation, the needs and the rights of the minorities themselves. Thus
they represent and convey their interests to the general public. This paper
aims to investigate how ethnic minorities are represented in the media and to
what extent the ethnic-minority media are represented in the media arena of
the Republic of Croatia. The author focuses especially on the city of Zagreb
and the minorities which have organized ethnic-minority Councils there. An
introductory discussion on the role and influence of the media is followed by
an overview of the analysis of ways of reporting on ethnic minorities in the
mainstream media of the majority, based on the results of research carried out
so far. Furthermore, the paper includes a discussion on the minority media,
comprising a tabular outline of print media and digital media (from the Internet
domain) of the ethnic-minority communities in the Republic of Croatia.
Finally, the author provides an analysis of such a state of affairs regarding the
media, and some concluding remarks.
Keywords
ethnic minorities in the Republic of Croatia; media; ethnic-minority press; minorities of the city of Zagreb
Hrčak ID:
77806
URI
Publication date:
14.2.2012.
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