/ 1968

PHILOSOPHY OF FEAR AND (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIA REALITY

The post-modern society often pulsates to the beat of dynamic transformation of political, economic crisis, technological revolution, climate changes, terrorist attacks, media appearances and global spectacles. The concept of public space adapts to the character and philosophy of new media, creating abundance of information that are getting more and more important social role. Bad news, disinformation, data conversion and ideologically driven interpretation are a part of the current media discourse, which favors fear as merchandise in demand on the information market. Staging of communication leads to the abolition of sense, homeopathic grafting of the moral panic that is oversized compared to the facts of the subject basis. (Re) construction of reality is based on the creation of meaning that comes from the social environment, ideas, symbols and images that dominate in a particular place and time. The reality is more and more a product of media meanings we are giving it. The authors examine the phenomenon of fear, especially the symbiosis of political actors and the mass media, using market uniformity to feed the hunger of the already anxious audience.

/ 1968

PRESS AT THE CROSSROADS

The changes that occur in social, technological and commercial global environment are evident in the sphere of contemporary journalism that under the onslaught of digitization, especially the Internet, is going through violent and radical transformation. Issuing of daily newspapers transformed from once a family business with tradition into a corporate challenge infected with the profit virus, so the value of the newspapers is more often measured by the realized capital at the end of the year than by credibility with readers because of the management pressure and dividends. Classic journalism sees the competition in the Internet and digital platforms, not realizing that the salvation is in the union, multimedia and convergence. Digital sources of information archive classic sources, especially the press; portals with free ads reduce income of the newspaper industry, while rumors and gossip combined with half-truths suppress expensive and exhausting investigative journalism. In these tectonic disturbances the authors see relentless struggle for survival, the crossroads of the old and the new media, battle for adjustment, where insufficient attention is given to the demands of the new audiences. The focus is on the collision of generations: on one side, young creative forces that use power of PCs and mobile, interactive technologies as their natural environment, and on the other, the older generation that refuses changes, accepting the reality defined by the classic media: television, radio, newspapers and magazines.

/ 1968

THE CRITICAL REFERENCE TO DISTINCTION BEETWEN KNOWL EDGE AND FAITH

In connection with the polemics between Mihailo Marković and Aleksandar Prnjat the author puts into question the usual distinction beetwen knowledge and faith. He adduces the phenomenon of mystical knowledge as an agument that religion cannot be reduced to faith. Although the suprarational knowledge is very hard to attain because it implies the overcoming of ego, its possibility refutes narrowing of knowledge to mere understanding.

/ 1968

OF INCORRECTEDNESS OF POLITICAL CORRECTEDNESS SPOKESMAN

/ 1968

CONTRIBUTION TO CRITICISM OF ANTISEMITISM

/ 1968

TOWARDS THE INTERNET DEMOCRACY: STRATEGIES OF A NEW MEDIA ACTIVISM AND SOME OF THEIR SOCIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

This work tries to examine the principles and participants of new media activism in all its forms. In accordance with its scope, the questions that this work will try to answer are: whether the individuals in the new media perform their media activism in a professional and organized way and who are the new media activists, how to explain their number and motives. After distinction of all the most important strategies of the new media activism, some of the psycho-social interpretations of the strength and commitment of their participants are given (theory of Pro AMS revolution, Surovicky’s “the wisdom of the crowd”).

/ 1968

COLOUR, THE MODERN WORLD, ART

/ 1968

TRIENNALE AND THE OCTOBER SALON

/ 1968

A TIME OF REALISM, POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT AND VIOLENCE

/ 1968

EXPERIMENTATION WITHOUT EXPERIMENTS, SEXUALITY WITHOUT SEX