Africa in the chosen Polish weekly news magazines – Newsweek, Polityka and Wprost – in the years 2001–2010

Afryka na łamach Newsweeka, Polityki i Wprost w latach 2001–2010

Author(s): Krzysztof Tlałka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1 (217)/2014

Keywords: Africa; Polish weekly news magazines; content analysis; discourse analysis

The aim of this article is to analyze the manner in which the chosen Polish weekly news magazines – Newsweek, Polityka and Wprost – presented Africa in the years 2001–2010, mainly the problems of its current situation and prospects for the future, as well as the issue of the most prominent leaders of the continent. Using two research methods – content analysis and discourse analysis – the author establishes that none of the magazines published articles about Africa in a systematic planned manner. The magazines focused mainly on political and security issues. Economy, societies and religions were also on the agenda but to a lesser extent. The problems of the continent were often presented through the activities taken by the dictators – Muammar Gaddafi and Robert Mugabe. As far as the perspectives of Africa for the future are concerned, the most critical and pessimistic was Wprost, whereas Newsweek and Polityka took a more optimistic approach to the issue

Theoretical background for media events studies

Teoretyczne podstawy badań nad wydarzeniami medialnymi

Author(s): Agnieszka Stępińska,Małgorzata Kołodziejczak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1 (217)/2014

Keywords: media events; ritual communication; Durkheim; news value

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss theoretical background for media events studies that have been conducted since the 1980s. The paper collects all major perspectives and studies in order to provide a complete picture of a theoretical approach to research on the media events. First, the paper reviews concepts developed by E. Durkheim and so called neodurkheimists, including E. Rothenbuhler and W. Shils. These concepts provided the background and led to a deeper understanding and an explanation of symbolic dimensions of social relations, contemporary ceremonies, rituals (including political ones), and the role of the media in creating the social and political reality. One of Durkheim’s fundamental concepts distinguishing sacrum and profanum provided the background for a concept of media events developed by E. Katz and D. Dayan. While the classic version of this concept included just three main types of the media events (conquest, coronation, and contest), the more recent one is extended and includes six types. Based on the empirical studies conducted by T. Liebes, E. Rothenbuhler, and G. Weimann (to name just some of the scholars), three more types have been added, namely: coercion, disaster, and war. They share a disruptive character (instead if integrative one) and they describe relations between the organizers of an event, media organizations, and the audience in a different manner than the classic version of the concept. For this reason, the idea of including them into a classic concept seems to be criticized by some scholars, including E. Rothenbuhler. Instead, he proposes that a concept of ritual communication as a broader frame for studies on media events should be used.

The „Naked Soul” of Dionysus. Nietzsche Reception by Stanislaw Przybyszewski

Die „nackte Seele“ des Dionysos. Zur Nietzsche-Rezeption bei Stanisław Przybyszewski

Author(s): Dariusz Salamon / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2013

Keywords: Przybyszewski; Nietzsche; reception; ‘the overman’; ‘the Dionysian’; ‘the naked soul’; re-reading

The author of the article attempts at re-reading the work of Stanisław Przybyszewki from the perspective of the analogy, and partially thecause-and-effect-relationship, between Nietzsche’s concept of ‘the Dionysian’ and Przybyszewski’s theory of ‘the naked soul’. The author of the paper proposes that the basic element of the reception of German philosopher’s thought in the works of the genius Pole is ‘the Dionysus’ from Nietzsche’s early writings understood as a universal cosmic force connected with sexual desire, and not a voluntary concept of ‘the overman’.

Erinnerung an Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Lipiński

Erinnerung an Prof. Dr. habil. Krzysztof Lipiński

Author(s): Katarzyna Jaśtal / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2013

A Farewell to Austria – the Poetry of Western Ukraine during World War I

Abschied von Österreich – zur Lyrik der Westukraine im Ersten Weltkrieg

Author(s): Alois Woldan / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2013

Keywords: World War I; Ukrainian literature; patriotism; pacifism

This article tries to sketch the notions concerning World War I present in Ukrainian literature of the time of that conflict. It analyses the poetry of famous authors from an elder generation (B. Lepkyj, P. Karmans’kyj, O. Oles’) as well as the works of rather unknown or forgotten authors from a younger generation (V. Atamanjuk, O. Kobec’). There is a certain shift to be seen between loyalty to the Habsburg Empire, patriotic emphasis when fighting for one’s own homeland within the first years of WWI, and apocalyptic visions as well as pacifistic accents towards the end of the war. Although we can find messianic motifs of suffering (Karmans’kyj) and resurrection (Oles’), no real political future after the war is seen in the works by the quoted authors.

Reviews

Szemle

Author(s): Kornél Gatter,Éva Uhrin,Gergely Kováts,György Paár,János Bali,Márton Gerő,Olivér István Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2014

Tóth Olivér István - Rózsa Erzsébet: A modern individualitás Hegel gyakorlati filozófiájában Paár György - Filozófiai intuíciók – filozófusok az intuícióról Szerk. Forrai Gábor Gerő Márton - Sik Domonkos: Demokratikus kultúra és modernizáció Állampolgári szocializáció 20 évvel a rendszerváltás után Bali János - Szabó Á. Töhötöm: Gazdasági adaptáció és etnicitás Gazdaság, vidékiség és integráció egy erdélyi térségben Gatter Kornél - Kritikai városkutatás Szerk. Jelinek Csaba et al Kováts Gergely - Semjén András: Semjén András: Költségmegosztás a felsőoktatásban Utak és tévutak Uhrin Éva - A perifériáról a centrum Világirodalmi áramlás a 20. század középső évtizedeitől Szerk. V. Gilbert Edit

There Used To Be A Hungarian Scientific Research Fund

Volt egy OTKA

Author(s): András Váradi,Attila Zsoldos,János Kertész,Gábor Klaniczay / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2014

Gábor Klaniczay in conversation with János Kertész, András Váradi and Attila Zsoldos

Review essays

Bírálat

Author(s): Tamás Valastyán,Csaba Németh,Attila Jakab / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2014

Jakab Attila - Nagy Árpád Miklós (szerk.): Az Olympos mellett Mágikus hagyományok az ókori Mediterraneumban Németh Csaba - Andreas Capellanus: A szerelemről Valastyán Tamás - Somlyó Bálint: Kerülő úton

Problems

PROBLÉMA

Author(s): Szilvia Köbli,Ferenc Ruzsa,János Wildmann,Júlia Mink / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2014

Szabad egyház a szabad államban az Eötvös Károly Intézet konferenciája, Budapest, 2014. október 3. Eötvös Károly Intézet - Vitairat Köbli Szilvia - A „vallási közösség” jogállása Wildmann János - Az állam világnézeti semlegessége feladásának egyházpolitikai megalapozása Ruzsa Ferenc - Minden egyház biznisz Mink Júlia - Útban az „államegyház pluralista változata” felé

How Putin and his Cronies Stole Russia

Hogyan lopta meg Putyin a haverjaival Oroszországot?

Author(s): Anne Applebaum / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2014

Karen Dawisha: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? Simon and Schuster, 2014

Literature as a Hearth-stoning

Literature as a Hearth-stoning

Author(s): Olivera Kjorveziroska / Language(s): English / Issue: 87/2012

(Lidija Dimkovska’s A Spare Life, Ili-ili, Skopje 2012)

A Nicer Ending

A Nicer Ending

Author(s): Bekim Sejranović / Language(s): English / Issue: 87/2012

Keywords: prose

(Excerpt from the novel)

Monet's Haystacks: Situated Knowledge, Creation, and Revolution

Стоговите со сено на Моне: Позиционирано Знаење, Креација и Револуција

Author(s): Ognjen Kojanić / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 87/2012

Why Did She Come?

Зошто ли дојде?

Author(s): Iman Mersal / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 87/2012

Why Did She Come?

Why Did She Come?

Author(s): Iman Mersal / Language(s): English / Issue: 87/2012

Simplicity

Simplicity

Author(s): Bengt Berg / Language(s): English / Issue: 87/2012

A Celebration of Life’s Energy

A Celebration of Life’s Energy

Author(s): Lidija Kapushevska-Drakulevska / Language(s): English / Issue: 87/2012

On Vladimir Martinovski’s Before and After the Dance (Skopje, Kliker: 2012)

Two Short Stories

Two Short Stories

Author(s): Dimitré Dinev / Language(s): English / Issue: 87/2012

Keywords: prose

A Post-Modern Approach: Literature and Memoirs as Memory and Archive

Постмодерен пристап: литературата и мемоарите како паметење и како архив

Author(s): Ivan Dzeparoski / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 87/2012

Simplicity

Наједноставното

Author(s): Bengt Berg / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 87/2012