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■ Since its earliest conceptualizations, publicity was believed to contribute significantly to the democratic social order; it normatively legitimized the press and other media as constitutive of the public and public opinion. Yet all the 'old' mass media rooted in the property rights of their owners failed to enhance and complement the corporate freedom of the press with technologically-feasible actions towards equalizing citizens' opportunities to participate in public debates. The most recent technological advances in communication do not seem to resolve this age-old controversy. Rather, an attempt is needed to change the media in the way that would allow of publicity in its original three-dimensional design: personal right to communicate in public, surveillance of the public over government (governance), and mediation between the state and civil society. ■

Bentham favored a free press as an instrument of public control of the state, in the interest of general happiness. Kant favored free public discussion as an instrument for the development & expression of autonomous rationality. But a free press embodied in the property rights of the owners of the press may well fail to achieve either Benthamite or Kantian goals. Such goals lead to a personal right to communicate rather than to a corporate right to press freedom. 40 References. Adapted from the source document.

This article analyses the position and development patterns of communication science on the periphery and examines the factors that may explain why it lags behind the progress made by intellectual centres in more developed scholarly communities. The analysis is concerned with the differences between the centre and the periphery in the growth of paradigms for disciplinary development, the role of communication theories and empirical research, and particularly with intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of indigenization and their relationship to the ideologization of science. A citation analysis of Yugoslav articles published in the field of communication science from 1964 to 1986 is presented to demonstrate the typical features of slow disciplinary growth in Yugoslavia, and to illustrate those external and internal influences that account for scientific lag in a typical peripheral community.

"In diesem Artikel werden Stand und die Entwicklungsmuster der Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Peripherie analysiert. Es werden Faktoren untersucht, die erklären können, warum die Kommunikationswissenschaft in den als Peripherie bezeichneten Ländern dem Fortschritt hinterherhinkt, der in den intellektuellen Zentren weiter entwickelter wissenschaftlicher Gesellschaften erreicht wurde. Die Analyse befaßt sich mit den Unterschieden zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie im Hinblick auf die Zunahme von Pardigmen zur Weiterentwicklung des Fachs, mit der Rolle von Kommunikationstheorien und wissenschaftlicher Forschung und insbesondere mit intrinsischen und extrinsischen Dimensionen der Indigenisation und ihrer Beziehung zur Ideologisierung der Wissenschaft. Eine Analyse von Zitaten aus jugoslawischen Artikeln, die zwischen 1964 und 1986 im Bereich der Kommunikationswissenschaft veröffentlicht wurden, wird erläutert, um die typischen Merkmale der langsamen fachwissenschaftlichen Entwicklung in Jugoslawien aufzuzeigen und um die äußeren und inneren Einflüsse zu verdeutlichen, die für eine verzögerte Entwicklung in der Wissenschaft einer typischen Gesellschaft der Peripherie verantwortlich sind." (Autorenreferat)

Slavko Splichal was interviewed by Gabriella Szabó on the 14th October 2023.

The article reflects on contemporary processes of de-professionalisation of journalism, its consequences for democratic processes and challenges to citizen journalism. It is argued that both the dilemmas of mainstream journalism and the emergence of citizen journalism are consequences of an array of evolving factors having to do with complex transformations in the media landscape and its industries, professional and 'leisured' content creation, employment and technologies, shifting patterns of media use among citizens, as well as broader permutations in social and cultural patterns. In the first section, we briefly address the long-term historical decline of professional journalism; in the second section, we look at some of the attributes of the current crisis; in the third section, we probe some of the key features of what has come to be called citizen journalism, a development that is contradictorily entwined with both the de-professionalisation and the democratisation of journalism. In the conclusion, we turn our eye to some paths for future research.