The contribution persuades that the idea of the self-regulation of media industry was put under the wreck of coruptiv and clientelistic relationships between media and politics. Due to the lack of efficacious mechanisms in order to protect the freedom of speech and public expression, the citizens actually do not have anymore an access to the credible information on which they could base their active participation in society, particulary in the process of decision-making. This capture of public sphere practiced by media industry is a typical example of privatisation of public interest.
COBISS.SI-ID: 512802176
The contribution deals with the question of dependence of media from the part of advertisments as primary source of income. The author finds out that the European "media politics" has reorientated the regulation of media from the sphere of political relations into the sphere of technocratic regulation of market. By doing that, it has throned the consumer as the bearer of "civic rights" instead of the citizen.
COBISS.SI-ID: 512801664
The article deals with the social position and role of scholars, intellectuals, scientists and researchers in the "societies of transition", by taking the example the Slovenian case study. Different social contraints that force the intellectual work into the neoliberal enterprise in postsocialist Slovenia are revealed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2049747