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  PROJECT
MEDIA FOR CITIZENS
 
   
  The project Media for Citizens is developed by the Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, with the support of the European Commission, to address issues of media pluralism and communication rights of citizens, and to empower citizens, especially minority groups, for active participation in media society.  
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  Communication rights of citizens are endangered by media ownership concentration and deficiency of public service media. Minority groups face problems with access to the media and media (mis)representations. There is lack of effective regulatory and self-regulatory instruments on national and European level that would provide media diversity and pluralism, and media accountability.

Our work focus on monitoring, policy research, advocacy, training/education and publishing activities with purpose to contribute to public awareness as well as to changes in media policy and media practices towards increase of media content diversity, pluralism of media ownership, media accountability and better access of minority groups and citizens to the media in Slovenia. The project includes empowerment activities to increase critical and active relations of citizens and minority groups to the media.

 
 
     
  Workshop for activists
"Media for Citizens"
Cankarjev dom, dvorana M1
Četrtek, 14. December 2006
 
     
 
Reporting Daily Events in Prime Time News
Marko Prpič
Since December 1995 television viewers in Slovenia have had the opportunity to watch two prime time news programs. What are the similarities and what are the differences between these two news broadcasts? Who is given opportunity to address the Slovenian public? How frequently do civil society, minorities and marginalized social groups appear in these news broadcasts? These are the issues addressed by Marko Prpič in his analysis of the prime time news broadcasts.
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Media Ownership and Its Impact on Media Independence
Sandra B. Hrvatin, Lenart J. Kučić, Iztok Jurančič
The authors of the report on media ownership in Slovenia, Sandra Bašič Hrvatin, Lenart J. Kučić and Iztok Jurančič, focused on the implications of the current structure of media ownership and state's interests in the media for the autonomy of Slovenian media.
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Minorities in the Media
Roman Kuhar
Roman Kuhar analyzed media representation of minorities, the Roma, Muslims and gays and lesbians. The period analyzed was February 2006. Kuhar employed quantitative method and discourse analysis to establish who was given opportunity to speak, what they said, whose views and interpretations were reproduced, what the underlying assumptions were and which discriminatory practices were present.
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