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Researching Journalism in Socialist and Post-Socialist Croatia
Z. Peruško
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, D. Vozab
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, D. Majstorović
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University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
How has academic research of journalism changed with the demise of socialism? How has the role of journalism, viewed through the academic optic,
changed through time and different political systems? We wish to approach the answer to this question by the analysis of academic articles on communi‑
cation and media studies in Croatia in the past +50 years. The present paper builds on the traces of intellectual history and present of the communication
and media studies and its thematic and paradigmatic foci on the basis of content analysis of articles dealing with communication topics in social scientific
and communication/media journals published in Croatia between 1969 and 2011 (Peruško & Vozab, 2013, 2014). The sample includes 481 articles, con‑
structed from all full original articles published in odd years starting in 1969, dealing with communication and media topics in the most important Croatian
social scientific journals all full original articles in the academic journals devoted exclusively to media and communication studies (all of them established
after 1990). While the articles relating to journalism increased significantly after 2000 (to become the most frequent topic), articles on media content and
production appeared also in the socialist period. Employing thematic analysis we aim to supplement our earlier findings, and contribute to better under‑
standing of the changes in the perceived role of journalism and its scholarly understanding in Croatia.