V září 2017 vyšel článek Lenky Vochocové Witty divas, nice mothers and tough girls in a sexist world: experiences and strategies of female influencers in online political debates v odborném časopise Media, Culture & Society. Tématem článku je gender gap v prostředí politické komunikace.
Abstrakt: The aim of this article is to explain the reasons behind the persisting gender gap in online political communication by examining the experience of women who are among the most visible and active participants in the online discussions on political issues. Data gathered through in-depth interviews reveal that women employ specific strategies to succeed in this environment and to deal with sexist ad hominem assaults – they either emphasize qualities traditionally considered feminine and act as ‘witty divas’ or ‘nice mothers’ or accommodate to the masculine character of the environment by adopting a ‘tough approach’. Some of them even experiment with masculine profiles. These strategies seem to reproduce the traditional patriarchal binary frame and show that even influential women strategically subordinate themselves to the rules of the male-dominated participatory sphere.
V aktuálním čísle odborného časopisu Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (odkaz)vyšel článek Lenky Vochocové, Jaromíra Mazáka a Václava Štětky Nic pro holky? Genderové nerovnosti v politické participaci na sociálních sítích (pdf) o přítomnosti a aktivitě žen v politických diskusích na Facebooku v kontextu národních parlamentních voleb v roce 2013 a voleb do Evropského parlamentu v roce 2014.
This chapter, co-authored by Ondřej Císař and Václav Štětka, was published as part of the book Populist Political Communication in Europe, edited by Toril Aalberg, Frank Esser, Carsten Reinemann, Jesper Strömbäck, and Claes H. de Vreese (Routledge 2016).
V prosinci vyšel článek Aleny Mackové a Václava Štětky Walking the Party Line? The Determinants of Facebook’s Adoption and Use by Czech Parliamentarians v odborném časopise Medijske studie. Tématem článku je adopce sociální sítě Facebook jako nástroje politické komunikace, a to jak politickými stranami, tak i jednotlivými politiky.
Pawel Surowiec (member of PolCoRe) has recently published a book Nation Branding, Public Relations and Soft Power: Corporatising Poland in Routledge (link). It provides an empirically grounded analysis of changes in the way in which various actors seek to manage Poland’s national image in world opinion. It explores how and why changes in political economy have shaped these actors and their use of soft power in a way that is influenced by public relations, corporate communication, and marketing practices.
V odborném časopise First Monday právě vyšel článek Jaroslava Švelch a Václava Štětky ze skupiny PolCoRe o facebookových protestech proti převratu na předsedu ČSSD Bohuslava Sobotku „The coup that flopped: Facebook as a platfrom for emotional protest“.
V prestižním vydavatelství Oxford University Press vyšla kniha Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective (link) o vztahu mezi médii a politikou v nových demokratických společnostech v Evropě i jinde ve světě. Autorem kapitoly The Rise of Oligarchs as Media Owners je Václav Štětka ze skupiny PolCoRe.
PolCoRe member Jernej Amon Prodnik has recently published the article Online Deliberation Between the Weak and Strong Public Sphere in the JeDEM (eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government) co-authored with Tanja Oblak Črnič. The paper challenges the theoretical assumptions of deliberative communication in online contexts of two empirical case studies in the Slovenian Web sphere.
Jernej Amon Prodnik, a member of PolCoRe group, has recently published the chapter 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism in the book Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism edited by Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco. In the chapter, Jernej Prodnik analyses the commodity-form and commodification from a theoretical, conceptual and historical point of view while emphasizing the main consequences of the global universalisation of the commodity-form for society and social relations.
See the link for more information about the edited volume.
Právě vyšel článek Good girls don’t comment on politics? Gendered character of online political participation in the Czech Republic v časopisu Information, Communication & Society. Členové skupiny PolCoRe Lenka Vochocová, Václav Štětka a Jaromír Mazák v něm zkoumají genderové aspekty politické participace na sociálních sítí.
Pawel Surowiec (member of PolCoRe) has recently published a book Nation Branding, Public Relations and Soft Power: Corporatising Poland in Routledge (
