[ecrea] New Issue: 20th Anniversary of Medijska istraživanja – Media Resaerch

Medijska istraživanja – Media Resaerch
20th Anniversary Issue Released: Vol. 20 – No. 1

ARTICLES
Slavko Splichal
Mass Media Between the Public and the Public Sphere

Tena Perišin
Petra Mlacic
Journalism Studies: Digital Curriculum for Digital Journalism

Jaka Primorac
The Position and Perspectives of Cultural and Creative Industries in 
Southeastern Europe

Ivan Balabanic
Vanesa Benkovic
Risk Mediatization – Case Study of Flue Pandemics Television Reporting

Anita Perešin
Al-Qaeda Online Radicalization and the Creation of Children Terrorists

Vesna Bilic
The Role of Perceived Social Injustice and Care Received from the 
Environment in Predicting Cyberbullying and Cybervictimization

Ilija Barišic
Football simulations online – cultural analysis in Web 2.0 environment

NOTES, BOOK REVIEWS
Award for the Best Book Published in the Field of Media in the Region 
"Dialogos" Established in Monte Negro (2013)

All articles, notes and book reviews of Medijska istraživanja – Media 
Research are available through http://srce.hrcak.hr

EDITORIAL
You have before you the first issue of Media Research’s 20th year. Let 
this anniversary year be an excuse for us briefly look back upon the 
journal’s history and evolution.

We initiated Media Research in complicated and difficult times for both 
our country and the scientific community. The first issue was published 
in 1995 as the first Croatian journal specialized, on a scientific 
level, for the areas of media and journalism, and intended for the 
scholars and students of public communication, journalists and the 
interested cultural public. The aim was to improve the theory of 
journalism and to stimulate scientific research of media. Such research 
were scarce, and those which did exist were published in books, 
collection of papers, or journals dedicated to other disciplines, thus 
being less available to the interested public. The communication 
scientific community was at that time a small one, and one of 
insufficient strength, which is why the international editorial board of 
Media Research was established as a non-institutionalized independent 
interdisciplinary group of scientists. Due to the lack of empirical 
research it was at first difficult to obtain quality papers. 
Collaborating with scientists from other countries was a way for the 
journal to reach set goals regarding the quality of articles that were 
being accepted. Quality was tested via a system of double anonymous 
review. As it was noticeable that there is a lack of valuable empirical 
research and articles, so it was difficult to find expert reviewers 
willing to improve the quality of reviewed work with advice or 
recommendation. This we, however, never gave up on, since we believed 
that a journal must fulfill its formative function in the creation of 
standard of published work, that it must follow the criteria of quality 
set by foreign journal within the discipline respectively.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the journal we published the 
book „Media Research and the media discipline 1995-2005“ in which we 
looked back on the changing trends within the discipline during a period 
of ten years, based on an elaborate report on all published scientific 
work up to that point. For the occasion, many prominent persons from 
public and cultural life contributed to the book and commented on the 
importance of scientific journals and the role of Media Research in the 
development of the communication scientific discipline in Croatia. We 
have also participated in the organization of a number of conferences 
such as, for example, The role of Local Radio-Stations in the 
Development of Democracy, Media and Ethics, Intermedia, Media Literacy 
in the Digital Age – Cultural, Economic and Political Perspectives.

Since the journal’s beginning in 1995 up to today, we have published 
several hundred scientific papers, theoretical or empirical research of 
authors from all over the world. Next to Croatian authors, we have 
published authors from Australia, USA, Netherlands, France, Sweden, 
Poland, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, 
Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic and Belgium. We developed the 
internationalization of our journal especially through partnership with 
international European projects COST A20 “Digital Radio Cultures in 
Europe – The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media in Europe” , COST 
A30 „East of West: setting a New Central and Eastern European Media 
Research Agenda”, COST Action IS0906 „Transforming Audiences, 
Transforming Societies“. In regards to the above mentioned and other 
projects, we have published a series of thematic issues edited by guest 
editors: Ethics and Media; Interactive Publishing; New Media Agenda: For 
a European Media Policy in Croatia; Photography as a Medium: Images of a 
War; Dilemmas of Contemporary Journalism; Media and the Public Interest; 
Gender, Sexuality and Socialist Popular Culture; International 
Journalistic Ideology in the Context of National Traditions of 
Journalism; Participatory Journalism. Throughout the years the journal 
became internationally visible and recognized, and in our, as well as 
some neighboring countries, similar journals were started, using Media 
Research as a positive model and collaborator. We are present in 
relevant bases such as SCOPUS, Sociological Abstracts and others, and we 
provide open access to the journal through the base http://srce.hrcak.hr 
where more than 260.000 visits were recorded, which is an average of 
10.000 per issue. We believe this to be an indicator of our journal’s 
role in the development of communication discipline and media theory. We 
are content to have become a useful source of bibliographical 
information on recent literature and a reliable source of information on 
theoretical and empirical research in the international scientific 
community, with integral texts. We look back with pride on our results 
so far, results we have accomplished with our authors, reviewers and 
editors, and we thank our subscribers and all those who contributed to 
this project. We invite you to keep sending us your papers and 
contributions, as well as your suggestions, praise and critique.

Editor-in-Chief
Nada Zgrabljic Rotar



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