Mass media and mass communication played a key role in the process of transformation of respected societies towards modern, industrial nations. One of the fundamental dimensions of this process was how were the members of modernizing societies developing an identity - an internalized…

Orbis, the Printing, Publishing and Newspaper-Writing Company, Limited, was established at the end of March 1921 to provide information about the newly founded Czechoslovak state abroad. Orbis published a variety of newspapers and magazines, such as The Prager Presse (a German written…

The article Czechoslovak Press Agency as Part of the Constitution of State Sovereignity describes the historical relationship between the state/govenment and the state news agency Československá tisková kancelář/Czechoslovak News Agency (CTK, founded 1918). This tradition originated…

Aim of this paper is to describe development tendencies of Czech photojournalism in interwar period in the twentieth century. It analyzes and interprets visual materials and period photographic discourse and traces the ways it influenced content as well as visual aspects of illustrated…

Czech film-makers paid in the 30's little attention to Slovakia. Sometimes, just used Slovakia as an attractive location. Slovak actors played only in a few movies (1935 Milan Rastislav Štefánik, 1936 Jánošík, 1937 Matčina zpověď, 1938 Neporažená armáda). An interesting…

The paper deals with the Union of Czech Journalists (UCJ) and its international activities after World War II. Specifically, it focuses on its activities in the new International organization of Journalists (IOJ) and second IOJ Congress in Prague in June 1947, where the Union of Czech…

The occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 initiated the period of so-called "nonnalization". This brought with it a new media policy which was at first unsuccessful despite the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia attempts to seize control through renewal of the censorship board as well…

The phenomenon of the Czech identity, having been built and mastered by semiosis during centuries, undergoes several structural changes in the global milieu of Internet. The article deals with a description of structural re-semiosis classified as re-pragmatization, re-semantization, and…

The article deals with the concept of Czech identity in contemporary far-right media. At the start, two main political streams are identified (neo-fascist and neo-nazi) and chosen their core media (portals cz, altermedia.info and odpor.org) for analysis. The bulk of the article is…

Probably no other kind of journalism is so deeply connected with its concern like sports journalism and sports. Czech sporting press, like in many other European countries, rose directly from sports movement. On the other hand it was the sporting press, which bad a significant impact on…

This article deals with the constructing of Czech national identity in the content of Czech print media. It is an abstract of a bachelor thesis entitled "Construction of Czech national identity in Czech print media: a qualitative analysis of Mladá fronta/Mladá fronta DNES and…

During the second half of the twentieth centuryy the studies of media communication became the province of a distinct academic discipline. Communication research, originally a field of many old and new disciplines (rhetoric, language studies, stylistics, semiotics, sociology, anthropology,…

This theoretical essay explores the possibilities of applying the concept of ,,popular citizenship" to the study of enclaves of agency in the authoritarian socialist system in Czechoslovakia in its ,,normalization" period. It draws on the assumption that some part of the agency…

The article is mapping the media representations of privacy in political communication in the Czech Republic (2006-10). The text is based on the dissertation thesis Public Privacy: Interaction of political marketing and media communication on the example of private life of Czech…

The text is focused on analyzing contemporary trends in media historiography. Using the latest production of relevant academic journals, the article covers the basic thematic and methodological issues of media history. Media history is a young, interdisciplinary field, its roots can be…

The paper deals with the term propaganda and its interpretations in contemporary media studies. The aim of the work was to systematize and review academic and research texts which were published in journals concerning media and communication since 2001 to 2009. The author found out…