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Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://mediawatch.mirovni-institut.si/

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Phone386 (0) 1 234 7720

Published byPeace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies

Brankica Petković, Programme Director

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Originally established in 1998 by the Open Society Institute Slovenia, the Media Watch project was taken over by the Peace Institute's Centre for Media Policy when the Open Society Institute closed in 2000. Media Watch is responsible for study and monitoring the mass media in Slovenia and publishing essays and articles on its work in the Media Watch Magazine and Media Watch bilingual book series. Past issues of Media Watch Magazine have covered the following themes: analyses of media reporting, ethics of advertising in the media, media markets, expansion of media corporations, accessibility of media, freelance reporters and unions, media overview, media and law, media in various regions, media in the world, reviews, conferences and seminars, and news. Media Watch is published quarterly and is also available online.

The Media Watch book series has so far issued the following titles: Media for Citizens; EUrosis: A Critique of the New Eurocentrism; The Private and the Public in the Media Regulation and implementation in Slovenia Media Ownership: Impact on Media Independence and Pluralism in Slovenia and Other Post-socialist European Countries; Media representations of homosexuality : an analysis of the print media in Slovenia, 1970-2000; Violence in the Media: the Extent and the Influence of Violence in the Media in Slovenia; Making Her Up: Women's Magazines in Slovenia; Freedom of Non-Accountability: Self-Regulation in the Media in Slovenia; Serving the State or the Public: the Outlook for Public Service Broadcasting in Slovenia; The Rhetoric of Refugee Policies in Slovenia: the Pragmatics of Legitimation; Media Policy in Slovenia in the 1990s: Regulation, Privatisation, Concentration and Commercialisation of the Media; The Victory of the Imaginary Left: the Relationship of the Media and Politics in the 2000 Parliamentary Elections in Slovenia; Freedom of the Press and Personal Rights: Right of Correction and Right of Reply in Slovene Legislation; We About the Roma: Discriminatory Discourse in the Media in Slovenia; Hate-Speech in Slovenia: Slovene Racism, Sexism and Chauvinism; The Slovene State on the Internet; The Politics of Tele-Tabloids; and The Rhetoric of Refugee Policies in Slovenia: the Pragmatics of Legitimation. The books are distributed by Buča Bookselling and Publishing, and the Slovene texts are available as E-books at http://mediawatch.mirovni-institut.si.

See also

• Media Watch Magazine
• Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies

External links

• Media Watch Project website (in English and Slovenian)