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The article presents the considerations, that the tabloids (here: the press and gossip portals) promote distorted, but suggestive picture of the world. These media have enormous creative potential. Under this concept the ability to create... more
This article takes a case study of particular media scandal, generated from a Twitter feeds and a YouTube posting which propelled a young woman, who became known as ‘The Magaluf Girl,’ into infamy. From discussion on social media sites... more
Sus argumentos simplistas y poco matizados buscan la descalificación moral del adversario político y de todo aquel que no encaje con su concepción idealizada de sociedad —élites, minorías, inmigrantes, etc.—. Estos procesos de... more
United States, United Kingdom, and Poland, three very different democratic states have been witnessing a significant right-wing shift in the recent years. In all these three countries, predictions made in official polls proved wrong in... more
Media shape the reality perceived by readership. The readership receives information from the media in the form in which the readers tend to pass them on as their own opinions. Despite the increasing danger of such reality, no research... more
The primary goal of this article is to analyze the cultural patterns that underlie Trome's news narrative and visual representation. We argue that cultural factors have turned Trome into Peru's largest circulation tabloid. One of the most... more
Press is the main mass medium. To become a popular one, appealing to each potential reader it was necessary to use methods available and understood by all. In this way, by simplifying published texts and by adding large and color photos,... more
The paper analyses the humorous treatment of the David Beckham scandals in the British press, focusing on various poetic devices such as word play, punning, creative coinages and allusion to taboo. It argues that readers may find a... more
For those who analyze foreign policy closely, it is not surprising that Russia would prefer a President Trump over a President Clinton. But that does not mean the Trump Presidency now exists solely or exclusively because of Russian... more
This study examines the changes and challenges of China’s newspaper industry by focusing on the popular press sector that has dominated the daily newspaper market since the early 2000s. Specifically, the study investigates three key... more
This paper presents four major positive image tendencies observable in 94 texts concerning priests that were published on the tabloid portal, Fakt24.pl, in the period 2009-2016 (a deceased person, a victim of a villain, an intermediary... more
This book chapter investigates the influence of the Beijing-based Global Times (a conservative tabloid daily newspaper) on China's public diplomacy. It argues that the recent rise of the newspaper represents a crucial strategic change in... more
The research is based on 341 articles published on one of the most pop ular Polish general‑content web portals, Fakt24.pl (the online webpage of the most readable Polish daily, Fakt, which is a tabloid). The re search material from... more
This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheets and tabloids over the two-year period 2017-2018. The basic assumption is that news reports serve as an important channel for dissemination... more
During the early 2000s, the newspaper market in Northern Europe was characterised by a trend of format changes as many broadsheets have chosen to adapt to the tabloid format. Similar tendencies also have emerged in other Western... more
Celebrities occasionally find themselves consumed as fodder for gossip magazines. Except for a few popular targets, such as Stephen King and J. K. Rowling, most literary authors can avoid the world of commodity magazines. More unlikely is... more
Nepalese print media history lasts slightly over one hundred years. From the beginning of Nepalese print media history, there were many exercises for political interest. Newspapers were used as political weapon for a new change or to... more
This book chapter investigates the bumpy journey that tabloid journalism in post-Mao China has experienced. From being totally banned in the Mao era from 1950s to 1970s and heatedly debated in the 1980s, tabloid journalism in China... more
This project focuses on Foucault’s accounts of knowledge and truth-telling, as found in his publications The Archaeology of Knowledge and Subjectivity and Truth, and the role of the journalist as an honest and self-reflective agent in a... more
Many reasons are forwarded as explanations to why the recent UK referendum resulted in a vote to ‘Leave’ the EU. There are three reasons that are widely discussed and considered to have had a significant impact on the result.... more