This article investigates how nanotechnology is presented and framed in Slovenian national newspapers. The focus is on the mass mediaʼs influence on citizensʼ perceptions of the social implications of nanotechnological progress. An empirical analysis of newspaper coverage of nanotechnology in Slovenia between 2004 and 2009 suggests that Slovenian newspapers are in an early stage of covering nanotechnology issues since they emphasize the positive aspects and scientific interpretations. Additional in-depth interviews with nanotechnologists reveal considerable dissatisfaction with the level and quality of the mediaʼs reporting of the issue of nanotechnology in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30992989
Slovenia is a young and small European country, which means that its films and film history are not very well known. The article surveys the major achievements of Slovenian cinema, arguing that it had proven itself with several notable successes even before the proclamation of Slovenia's independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. The gravest danger of contemporary Slovenian cinema is that it cannot draw enough international attention if it does not play along with stereotypical Western expectations of the region as either an irrational Other, or a troublesome EU border state.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31351901
The 2011 Slovenian Public Opinion (SJM) research showed that trust in the Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia has fallen to an all-time low in the countryʼs post-independence era: only 25% of Slovenians expressed a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the Church. This article considers how the Catholic Churchʼs social power has been impacted by the so-called "holy crash"; namely, the 2010 collapse of the archdiocese of Mariborʼs financial empire and its investments and interests in various enterprises controlled through its Gospodarstvo Rast financial firm. It reveals the fact that in recent years trust has declined the most in the Podravje and Koroška regions of Slovenia, both of which lie within the Maribor archdiocese. This decline in trust supports the central hypothesis that the scandal and secrecy surrounding the collapse have negatively impacted trust. The article further establishes that trust in the Church has declined among regular churchgoers, although to a smaller extent than among less committed adherents to the faith. In the conclusion, this article reflects on the wider social consequences of the crash and diminished trust in the Catholic Church among Slovenians. Indeed, both contribute to neo-secularisation, i.e. the decline ofreligious authority, and in the medium term considerably affect realisation of those Church-sponsored projects designed towards the pillarisation of Slovenian society
COBISS.SI-ID: 31096157
The article is a study of Vladimir Bartol's novel Alamut through the epistemological framework of Edward Said's Orientalism. Said's concept of Orientalism is reworked through the concept of self-Orientalism in both of its versions, here defined as Oriental and Occidental self-Orientalism. The main thesis of the article states that it is possible to interpret Bartol’s novel as a case of Orientalism and Occidental self-Orientalism in literature. The primary purpose of the article is therefore to give an analysis of its orientalistic and self-orientalistic elements.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2342099
This article applies Campbell's (2005) theory of craft consumption to contemporary food culture. It argues that, besides cooking and the preparation of food, certain modes of domestic food growing can also be regarded as the craft consumption of food. At its core it tries to identify the conditions and possible motives for both modes of the craft consumption of food that can shed light on social, symbolic, expressive and economic specifics of the new forms of food practices and help describe how they differ from their traditional patterns. Last but not least, the article argues that insomuch as craft activities are by definition always leisure activities the application of the notion of the craft consumption to food culture can also provide us with a better understanding of cooking and home food growing as leisure activities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31545693