Volume 67, Issue 3 (259)

2024

Publication date: 02.10.2024

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Publikacja płatna ze środków Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, stanowiących pomoc przyznaną w ramach programu „Rozwój czasopism naukowych” na podstawie umowy nr RCN/SP/0325/2021/1 z dnia 10.02.2023 r

Licence: CC BY

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Magdalena Hodalska

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Agnieszka Szymańska

Secretary Edyta Żyrek-Horodyska

Issue content

Artykuły i rozprawy

Ekoreportaże Jana Mencwela i Michała Książka w świetle paradygmatu dziennikarstwa ekologicznego

Edyta Żyrek-Horodyska

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 11 - 30

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.023.20057

The article aims to discuss the characteristic features of ecological reporting in the context of the main assumptions of the paradigm known as ecological journalism. The research was conducted using the close reading method and ‘green reading’ practices developed in the field of ecocriticism. The author analyzes two reportages: “Betonosis. How Polish Cities Are Being Destroyed” by Jan Mencwel and “Atlas of Holes and Cracks” by Michał Książek. The author of the article verifies the hypothesis whether the reporters who present the plant history of the city from different perspectives, create texts corresponding to documentary and intervention journalism. The research showed that the authors of both ecoreportages think about the protection of urban nature in ethical terms and that they expose the performative nature of their publications.

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Animal studies jako terytorium badawcze w polskim medioznawstwie. Obrazy zwierząt w mediach podczas kataklizmów

Magdalena Hodalska

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 31 - 43

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.024.20058

The purpose of this article is to identify and describe an important research area, which has still not been developed in Polish media studies, namely animal studies. Many researchers discuss problems that are covered by cultural animal studies, a research area developed dynamically in the West, and still not very advanced in Poland. A critical analysis of literature made it possible to introduce the works of foreign authors and identify gaps in the knowledge, as regards Polish literature in the area of Critical Animal and Media Studies. The list of research areas, as well as the methods that can be used in media studies, closes with an overview of animal narratives in media coverage of disasters. The multidimensionality of animal narratives will be discussed through the prism of stories told by journalists covering the aftermath of floods, mudslides, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes in the last two decades. Those stories were filled with metaphors based on the persuasively powerful images of domestic and wild animals.

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Wizualizacje danych w polskim ekodyskursie prasowym

Ewa Modrzejewska, Dagmara Mateja

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 45 - 64

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.025.20059

Based on purposive analysis of a sample of Polish press texts (newspapers and opinion weeklies) published during the international climate summits (COP) in 2015 and 2021, we characterize the ways in which data visualization is utilized, with particular attention to the text-image relationship. We outline the broader context of such communicative practices, discussing data (climate-related) visualizations in both media practice and scholarly reflection. The conducted content analysis allows us to ascertain that despite global interest in data journalism, Polish media outlets in both research periods exhibited a conservative editorial strategy, not fully exploiting the potential of this form of communication regarding climate issues. Individual examples indicate that visualizations can convey condensed information, but also simplify the depiction of reality and lend credibility to the authors’ arguments.

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Charakterystyczne kolokacje w wybranych ekoreportażach prasowych z lat 2022–2024

Katarzyna Ostrowska

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 65 - 76

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.025.20059

The article aims to present collocations typical of the genre of press ecoreportage based on selected articles from the National Geographic Magazine. Poland from 2022–2024. To perform this task, the following methods were used: corpus analysis – creating a corpus of twenty press texts on ecology, quantitative and qualitative analysis – extracting the most important word compounds using the Corpusomat tool from the CLARIN-PL infrastructure relative to C-value. The C-value indicator says a lot about the importance of collocation for a given corpus; on its basis, it is possible to predict the validity of word compounds in other press texts. The study selected the most important collocations for the ecoreportage genre with a C-value of more than 10.00 >10,00), such as: climate change, global warming, water pollution, iceberg, ocean wave. This means that the topics of climate change, global warming, water pollution, melting icebergs and causing ocean waves will also be an important theme in other texts in the genre of contemporary press eco-reportage.

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Media o ociepleniu klimatu: biznes i emocje a fakty

Anna Ślósarz

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 77 - 95

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.027.20061

When discussing climate change, the media arouses strong emotions, including fear. Young people are especially susceptible to their influence. The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between media reports about global warming and the emotional security of young recipients. A survey conducted among students showed that they gained knowledge about ‘global warming’” from emotional, biased messages. Their sources of information were mainly multimedia, distributed on social media. Existing documents on climate change were also examined: media messages and reports, scientific publications, reviews of books addressed to children and selected teaching proposals, which turned out to be inadequate to the emotional needs of students. It was determined that it is necessary to teach critical thinking by presenting climate phenomena in connection with the activities of media and political-business entities. Polish schools should familiarize students with national realities. It is necessary to inform about the real intentions of senders. Inciting climate hysteria leads to overlooking the real threats. Humanitarian care for the planet should grow out of concern for the immediate community.

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Wektory ekosprawiedliwości. Reportaże eko- i antropocentryczne

Justyna Tabaszewska

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 97 - 113

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.028.20062

In this article, I deal with a specific issue arising from ecocriticism, i.e. the concept of ecojustice (I refer here to its understanding according to the concepts of, among others, T. Clark, 2015, and not to the Christian interpretation of this category) and how the concept of ecojustice can be understood and implemented within engaged journalism. The article shows how the category of ecojustice can be understood at both the theoretical and practical levels within the two reportages analyzed in the text. The first is the monumental “Hunger” by M. Caparros (which, at first glance, seems to be an anthropocentric reportage), the second is the more modest “Death in the Amazon” by A. Domosławski (which is declaratively more focused on the natural environment and the changes taking place in it). The above-mentioned examples serve to describe a broader trend of constructing narratives about the interrelationships between the exploitation of nature and the exploitation of unprivileged classes and show the meanders of eco- and anthropocentric narratives.

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War Fact-Checking: Strategies and Methodology for Debunking Disinformation on the War in Ukraine at the Demagog.org.pl Website

Monika Szafrańska

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 115 - 135

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.029.20063

The first victim of the war is truth. During armed conflicts, disinformation is particularly dangerous, and attempts to manipulate public opinion – whether in the form of a limited set of information or even fake news – should be expected on each side of the ongoing conflict. In this situation, the ability to verify information distributed in the media space is of great importance, especially in the context of the contemporary omnipresence of social media. The purpose of the article is to present, in a form of case study, the strategies for debunking false information on the conflict in Ukraine on the example of the fact-checking portal Demagog.org.pl. This analysis allowed drawing conclusions on the functions of fact-checking in the media system, among which the most important are control, educational and alarm functions. The research contributes to the media studies literature by shedding some light on fact-checking initiatives’ role in the media system.

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Conspiracy Theories Generated by Digital Anti-vaccination Communities. Netnographic Case Study of a Facebook Group

Bogna Halska-Pionka, Patrycja Cheba

Media Research Issues, Volume 67, Issue 3 (259), 2024, pp. 137 - 155

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.24.033.20105

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the emergence of anti-vaccine groups and the dissemination of conspiracy theories on social media. These pseudoscientific conspiracy theories have led to the spread of xenophobic, racist, and potentially harmful information within society. This article aims to address a research gap by delving into the contextual factors that support the development of conspiracy theories. The aim of this article is to recognize the essence and activity of members of the digital community and to identify the contexts (cultural, economic, political, social, etc.) supporting the process of generating conspiracy theories using the example of a Facebook group. The methodological approach employed will be virtual ethnography (netnography), conducted through an exploratory case study of a selected Facebook group. The empirical data were taken from March 2020 to June 2022. To streamline the analysis, the research team extracted four keywords or concepts – “coronavirus”, “COVID-19”, “COVID”, and “SARS‑CoV-2” – based on the frequency of their occurrence in the content. The research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing upon insights from media studies, social communication, sociology, and anthropology. The objective of this article is to present the current status of the project, which has received funding under the Strategic Program Excellence Initiative of Jagiellonian University.

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