COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media

Looking for the media presentation of the COVID-19 pandemic in religious communities on 5 Croatian web portals (Jutarnji.hr, Vecernji.hr, 24sata.hr, Glasslavonije. hr, Index.hr), the paper consists of two parts. The first part presents numeric data of infected and dead religious, and self-isolated r...

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Main Author: Jasna Krista Mijatović
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Christian Academic Circle 2023-01-01
Series:Nova Prisutnost
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Online Access:https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/427553
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description Looking for the media presentation of the COVID-19 pandemic in religious communities on 5 Croatian web portals (Jutarnji.hr, Vecernji.hr, 24sata.hr, Glasslavonije. hr, Index.hr), the paper consists of two parts. The first part presents numeric data of infected and dead religious, and self-isolated religious in the period of 15 March to 15 November 2020. The purpose of the second part of the paper is to analyse the media’s presentation of COVID-19 in religious communities checking was it in a sensationalist manner. The study is conducted by using the method of quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 5 web portals in the period of 15 March to 15 November 2020. Specific goals of the research are to examine the objectivity of the articles’ content and whether they conform to the Media Act, to observe values promoted in an article, and to notice differences in the COVID-19 media reports in female religious communities compared to COVID-19 media reports in male religious communities. The paper deals with the power of media in creating the image of religious communities in the Croatian public.
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spelling doaj.art-9e796a4ba2b34948987ebacbb478d48c2024-04-15T18:20:38ZengChristian Academic CircleNova Prisutnost1334-23121848-86762023-01-01XXI121323110.31192/np.21.1.13COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian MediaJasna Krista Mijatović0Pontifical Gregorian University, Philosophical and Theological Institute of the Society of Jesus, Zagreb, CroatiaLooking for the media presentation of the COVID-19 pandemic in religious communities on 5 Croatian web portals (Jutarnji.hr, Vecernji.hr, 24sata.hr, Glasslavonije. hr, Index.hr), the paper consists of two parts. The first part presents numeric data of infected and dead religious, and self-isolated religious in the period of 15 March to 15 November 2020. The purpose of the second part of the paper is to analyse the media’s presentation of COVID-19 in religious communities checking was it in a sensationalist manner. The study is conducted by using the method of quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 5 web portals in the period of 15 March to 15 November 2020. Specific goals of the research are to examine the objectivity of the articles’ content and whether they conform to the Media Act, to observe values promoted in an article, and to notice differences in the COVID-19 media reports in female religious communities compared to COVID-19 media reports in male religious communities. The paper deals with the power of media in creating the image of religious communities in the Croatian public.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/427553COVID-19mediaobjectivitypublic relationreligious communitysensationalism
spellingShingle Jasna Krista Mijatović
COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media
Nova Prisutnost
COVID-19
media
objectivity
public relation
religious community
sensationalism
title COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media
title_full COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media
title_fullStr COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media
title_short COVID-19 in Religious Communities in Focus of the Croatian Media
title_sort covid 19 in religious communities in focus of the croatian media
topic COVID-19
media
objectivity
public relation
religious community
sensationalism
url https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/427553
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