Post on 20-Jun-2015
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MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Major points of development
Selected major theories and issues
Past and present roles of the media in international relations
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
International conflicts, war and propaganda
Development of international organisations and diplomacy
Ideologies, messages
New communication technologies
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
„The role of a journalists is to make from boring issues exciting ones, and the role
of a diplomat is to make from exciting issues very boring ones.„
Sir Oliver Wright, former Ambassador of the UK in the USA
(Brandon 1988, 262)
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Low interest of (not only) Slovak citizens
in international relations
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Eurobarometer 2007
No –interest in events outside the EU
Slovaks and Poles (68 %)
Czechs (72 %)
(worst in the EU)
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Interest of readers in
Foreign affairs
2003 – 2 %
2004 – 1 %
World Affairs (13 %)
Sledujete slovenskú zahraničnú politiku?
12,0
12,1
52,0
57,2
35,5
29,9
0,5
0,8
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
2007
2008
často občas vôbec nevie
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Sources of Information on IR
2004
TV - ¾
Radio – ½
Press – 40 %
Family and friends – 17 %
Internet – 7 %
MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
From Local to Global Issues (tsunami, cultural issues)
Global Media/Communication/Information