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• Politics and media - Structure of the Hungarian media network in autumn 2018

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  Attila Farkas

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  165

  This article focusing on the changes within the Hungarian media sphere after the Orban–
  Simicska conflict. After the conflict the Hungarian media sphere has changed radically. Those of
  the media outlets which belonged to Lajos Simicska had cease their operation. Business persons
  who have close ties to Fidesz has founded new media outlets. In my article I analyzed three
  political case which happened during the Fall 2018. I assumed that the media sphere in Hungary
  had become more polarized than before. In order to prove it, I created two groups of the media
  outlets. The first one, which have close ties to the governing party, and the second one which has
  not got ties to Fidesz. During my research I used three different methods. First, I
  recorded astatistics about the articles. According to this, the media agenda shows large difference between
  the groups. I did content analysis on the articles, which shows us a huge polarization between
  the groups. The third one, was network analysis. The network analysis did not confirmed the
  polarization hypothesis.

• Protest outcomes in non-democratic regimes: Educational protests in Hungary

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  Pál Susánszky

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  175

  In 2022–23, Hungary witnessed the largest wave of protests since the fall of communism in 1990. Teachers, students and parents rallied to demand better school conditions and reforms within the educational system. In this study, I analyse the outcomes of these protests using data from the Hungarian Protest Event Database (HuPED) and 47 online news portals. I empirically examine the changes in the number of education-related protests and assess how demonstrations and strikes have influenced media discourse on the issue of education and the protesters’ demands. The results show that the protesters were clearly successful in mobilising the masses and shaping public discourse, but they were unable to achieve significant policy changes. In the second part of the paper, I explain the failure of the protests by the authorities’ protest and dissent management techniques applied against the movement.