The subject of this article are methodological foundations of press studies research. The aim of the analysis is to locate historical inspirations which led to demarcating the field of research described as press studies. Moreover, the transformation of the discipline was examined which, by reason of the continuous perfecting of the studied medium, perpetually reaches for new research tools. The article refers to historical and contemporary subject literature as well as to author’s own research experience.

This article presents, for the first time in the media sciences, a border situation in journalistic thinking. It shows the specificity of this thinking that is diffiult to notice. On the one hand, its maturity, on the other, infantilism and even stupidity. The author lists several nuanced cases of journalism approaching stupidity. Qualitative structural and phenomenological methods are outlined here the mechanisms of functioning and the threat of contemporary journalism. The conclusion allows us to see the practical benefi ts of this type of analysis in broadly understood media business and journalism.

The article is devoted to the issue of evaluation of investigative journalism within the legal and social system. The paper presents the subject matter from different points of view. The evaluation of investigative journalism must be ambivalent, because this phenomenon has many negative traits, however, it must be admitted that it has positive elements too. It is a anachronistic phenomenon, because journalist realizes the function reserved for state bodies established to criminal prosecution. On the other hand it is characterized by utilitarianism, as may contribute to the detection of offence previously unknown to investigative authorities and the public disclosure of this offence. The opinion is presented that investigative journalism should concern exceptional situations. The most rigorous standpoint must be connected with illegal methods of provocation, because in such situations admissibility of their application must just related to extreme cases.

The article describes digital television transition in Poland, which was a revolution for broadcasters  and viewers. The analysis of the transition process covers the years 1997–2018. There were described the most important facts and events accompanying the digitization and actions of various media market players in Poland, which influenced the course of the process. Legal and technological aspects related to the implementation of the new terrestrial emission method were mentioned. Author in an easy way described the mechanism of multiplexes functioning and the services that are provided in digital terrestrial television. The article is also a preliminary summary as well as an attempt to compare taken and lost chances that the Polish media market faced due to digital television transition.

The dynamic development of Internet communication changes the environment in which the media function. This applies not only to publishers and private or public broadcasters, but also to local governments. In this environment, there are numerous press titles and electronic media whose administrators are presidents or mayors elected in direct elections. They create not only traditional media. Recognizing the opportunities offered by the Internet, they develop media allowing for a new type of content distribution through their own online services, applications, blogs and social networking sites. On the one hand, they should comply with the provisions resulting, for example, from press and copyright law, regarding radio and television broadcasters. On the other hand, municipalities are burdened with numerous obligations resulting from acts regulating the functioning of local governments. As a public institution, they are subject, among others, to the acts on access to public information and the re-use of public sector information. The author tries to show that the municipalities operate on the media market in special circumstances. Therefore, their existing positioning in the media system should be verified, especially as a result of the dynamic development of new media (blogs, social websites, so-called internet TV, etc.). For confirmation, the author presents the results of research and numerous examples confirming the  creation by local governments of a separate structure in the media system.

The aim of the article is to detect synchronic textual-typological characteristics of microblog  as a current attractive communication segment according to its frequency and authorship. Our analysis is based on linguistic, traditional-genologic and media-communication idea background, available scientific literature and research of situation, not only, but mostly in Slovak electronic communication area. The topic is analysed and interpreted through the prism of five criteria of genre norm – thematic, functional, compositional, formal and linguistic. The background material base is composed of 700 microblog communication units from the area of social network Facebook published by individual parliamentary political parties before 2016 election in Slovakia. We have also used corresponding Polish-language texts from the pre-election period (2015) using comparative-contrastive method. 

Sketch on the centenary of the establishment of the Polish Telegraph Agency The study presents the reception of the term telegraph in the titles of Polish periodicals and the names of press agencies in the period from 1821 to 1991. In Poland, the emergence of a breakthrough technical device called a telegraph was preceded by Telegraph. Messages from today’s mail – a magazine published in Krakow in 1821 by Konstanty Majeranowski. The most important and the last Polish institution referring in the name to the telegraph was the Polish Telegraphic Agency, established one hundred years ago, on November 5, 1918.

The study is aiming at bridging the research gap concerning temporal dimension of mediatization. In particular, the subject of the research is the structure of the mediatized time, as well as its subjective value declared by media users. The mix-method approach applied in the study aimed to answer the research question: what media do to our time. The detailed analysis of the collected empirical data leads to the conclusion about certain features of young people mediatized activities: high level of intensity and futility of media consumption; permanent media connection accompanied by a sense of time loss, which is mitigated by a feeling of relaxation; the awareness of huge (unused) opportunities the media are able to offer; the awareness of media addiction necessary to be overcome; the ambivalent or negative evaluation of mediatized time and the anxiety or threat of being disconnected.

In the article the operation of the tool ApplyMagicSauce.com was analyzed. It was created by researchers in order to make the profilization of social media users possible and became famous when the principles of operation of this tool were used by the company Cambridge Analytica, involved in the presidential campaign of Donald Trump as well as the supporters of the British withdrawal from the European Union. A group of six people consisting of one lecturer and students of journalism and social communication decided to undergo a study using this tool, providing data from their private profiles on Facebook. The goal was to show how the tool works and the critical analysis of its effectiveness. The study was conducted in November 2017.

The goal of this paper is to examine if there is a relation between the religious practices and the consumption practices of men aged 18–30. The author derives her assumptions from the theory of cult brands and their religious-like background which were described i.a. by Benjamin R. Barber, Martin Lindstrom, Matthew W. Ragas and Bolivar J. Bueno. Due to the previous research the author formed a hypothesis that men who left their hometown are prone to quit their religious practices and engage in consumption practices, i.e. regular and structured activity subject to consuming non-FMCG goods. The author decided to conduct 20 in-depth interviews with men from the specified age group. The questions of the interview concerned the influence of advertising messages on interlocutors’ brand awareness. The results of the research were ambiguous however they showed the existence of the dependence between religious and consumption practices. The article formulates questions for further research. 

Adam Bańdo - WĘGIERSKA KARTA Z DZIEJÓW POLSKIEGO CZASOPIŚMIENNICTWA NA UCHODŹSTWIE PODCZAS II WOJNY ŚWIATOWEJ 

REVIEW: Krzysztof Woźniakowski: Polskie czasopiśmiennictwo uchodźcze na Węgrzech 1939–1945 (Adam Bańdo), s. 571; Książki o prasie żydowskiej (Agnieszka J. Cieślikowa), s. 576; Beata Grochala: Telewizyjna transmisja sportowa w ujęciu genologii lingwistycznej na materiale transmisji meczów piłki nożnej (Beata Jarosz), s. 580

Agnieszka J. Cieślikowa - KSIĄŻKI O PRASIE ŻYDOWSKIEJ

REVIEW: IZRAELITA 1866–1915. WYBÓR ŹRÓDEŁ. Oprac. Agnieszka Jagodzińska i Marcin Wodziński. Wydawnictwo Austeria, Kraków–Budapeszt 2015. S. 535.

Agnieszka Karczewska: POLSKO--ŻYDOWSKA REPUBLIKA MARZEŃ. O CHWILCE DZIECI I MŁODZIEŻY (1925–1937). Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 2015. S 394.

Zuzanna Kołodziejska: IZRAELITA (1866–1915). ZNACZENIE KULTUROWE I LITERACKIE CZASOPISMA. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2014. S. 354.

Adam Kopciowski: WOS HERT ZICH IN DER PROWINC? PRASA ŻYDOWSKA NA LUBELSZCZYŹNIE I JEJ NAJWIĘKSZY DZIENNIK LUBLINER TUGBLAT. Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2015. S. 613.

Elżbieta Kossewska: ONA JESZCZE MÓWI PO POLSKU, ALE ŚMIEJE SIĘ PO HEBRAJSKU. PARTYJNA PRASA POLSKOJĘZYCZNA I INTEGRACJA KULTUROWA POLSKICH ŻYDÓW W IZRAELU (1948–1970). Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2015. S. 518.

Sabina Kwiecień, Beata Langer: PRASA, BIBLIOTEKA, KSIĄŻKA NA ŁAMACH NOWEGO DZIENNIKA. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, Kraków 2017. S. 252.

Anna Landau-Czajka: POLSKA TO NIE ONI. POLSKA I POLACY W POLSKOJĘZYCZNEJ PRASIE ŻYDOWSKIEJ II RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warszawa 2015. S. 382.

Anna Landau-Czajka: WIELKI MAŁY PRZEGLĄD. SPOŁECZEŃSTWO II RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ W OCZACH KORESPONDENTÓW MAŁEGO PRZEGLĄDU. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warszawa 2018. S. 486.

Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov: MÓWIĆ WE WŁASNYM IMIENIU. PRASA JIDYSZOWA A TWORZENIE ŻYDOWSKIEJ TOŻSAMOŚCI NARODOWEJ (DO 1918 ROKU). Instytut Historii PAN i Wydawnictwo Neriton, Warszawa 2017, s. 353.

PRASA ŻYDÓW POLSKICH. OD PRZESZŁOŚCI DO TERAŹNIEJSZOŚCI. Red. Agnieszka Karczewska, Sławomir Jacek Żurek. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin 2016. S. 278.

Cwi Pryłucki: WSPOMNIENIA (1905–1939). Przekład Agata Kondrat, oprac. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov. Archiwum Ringelbluma. Tom 28. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warszawa 2015, s. 192.

Beata Jarosz - O TELEWIZYJNEJ TRANSMISJI SPORTOWEJ (GENOLOGICZNIE)

REVIEW: Beata Grochala: TELEWIZYJNA TRANSMISJA SPORTOWA W UJĘCIU GENOLOGII LINGWISTYCZNEJ NA MATERIALE TRANSMISJI MECZÓW PIŁKI NOŻNEJ. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016. S. 321.

• Katarzyna Wierak - Konferencja „Współczesne Media 10. Problemy i metody badań nad mediami”. Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, 19–20 kwietnia 2018

• Jacek H. Kołodziej - „Przestrzeń, polityka i komunikacja”. Polemiczna relacja z XI Konferencji [Badaczy] Mediów i Komunikacji w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej CEECOM, Segedyn, Węgry, 30 maja – 1 czerwca 2018