February 9, 2026
New Edited Volume: Rethinking Media and Communication: A Critical Sociological Lens We are pleased to announce the recent publication of Rethinking Media and Communication: A Critical […]
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November 20, 2025
The Gig Public: New Book by Slavko Splichal A new book by Slavko Splichal, The Gig Public: AI-Driven Contractual and Habitual Performativisation of Publicness, has been published […]
March 24, 2025
New Special Issue of Javnost – The Public We are excited to announce the release of a special issue of Javnost – The Public (Vol. 31, […]
February 21, 2025
New Book: Histories of Digital Journalism Member of the Social Communication Research Centre (UL FDV) Prof. Dr. Igor Vobič co-edited the scientific monograph Histories of Digital […]
October 24, 2024
Marko Milosavljević and Melita Poler (2024): The role and accountability of the state as a news media owner in the contemporary media landscape Abstract Drawing on […]
June 14, 2024
Jernej A. Prodnik (2024): Towards a Critique of Mediatisation Abstract Mediatisation has established itself in the last decade as a key approach in media and communication […]
June 13, 2024
Slavko Splichal (2024): Between (Conceptual) Crisis and Critique: Reclaiming the Critical Epistemic Value of Publicness Abstract Different understandings of what it means to be critical in […]
March 30, 2024
Jernej Kaluža (2024): Datafied Empiricism Versus Normative Publicness: A Philosophical Grounding for Assessing the Influence of New Technologies on the Digital Public Sphere Abstract New technologies […]
March 15, 2024
Slavko Splichal: The Rise of Contractual Publics: Conceptual Crisis and the Tech-driven Siege of the Public Sphere Abstract The paper examines modern re-conceptualisations and re-contextualisations of […]