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

  107-129

  Attila Farkas

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  65

  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.

• Representations of induced abortion in the Hungarian online media

  121-152.

  Nagy Beata, Magda

  Huszar Katalin

  Kalo Zsuzsa

  Rigo Adrien

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  72

  This study focuses on how induced abortion is represented in the Hungarian online media in
  relation to the reception of the public debate on the new Polish abortion law. The study was aimed
  at revealing the major themes, the embedding conceptual network and the framing of induced
  abortion in the online press. Since the press is an essential influencing factor of public opinion
  due to its broad publicity, research should focus on the characteristics of the discourse in whose
  space the concerned individuals form their views and make decisions on abortion. A thematic
  analysis of relevant press releases revealed eight major themes that framed abortion in a specific
  manner: thematization of induced abortion as a social/demographic issue; legislative issues of;
  and attitudes towards, abortion; abortion as an act of (physical) self-determination; contents
  related to the abortion decision; to its causes and consequences; and depiction of women
  choosing abortion. Furthermore, the analysis revealed the themes most frequently associated
  with abortion and potentially related themes typically not associated with it.

• Does the corruption affect to the voters? – a Bayesian econometric analysis

  25-66

  Andras Toth

  Tamas Barczikay

  David Atanaszov

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  36

  The study examines the agenda-setting aspirations of Hungarian political life between 2010
  and 2016 from a corruption research perspective. Using the available data, we estimate, based
  on the monthly data series of a six-year period, using different statistical methods, whether the
  allocation of European Union funds used as a proxy for corruption had an impact on the support
  of the ruling party. The results of the applied Bayesian vector autoregression do not provide
  evidence for the hypothesis that the increase in corruption associated with the increase in EU
  subsidies reduces the popularity of the ruling party among the entire voting population.

• Hungarian Videoblogger Networks Online

  43-67.

  Hegedus Daniel

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  42

  The web 2.0 phenomenon and social media – without question – not only reshaped our everyday experiences, but they have established an environment for new types of social practices and social actors. The demotization (Turner 2010) effect of such technologies has created entirely new fields where celebrities might emerge from: one of them is videoblogging. Many video bloggers gained great reputation through peculiar micro-celebrity practices (Marwick 2015, Senft 2012), and, as a result, became key figures in distributing ideas, values and knowledge in today’s society. These cognitive patterns are disseminated with a discursive apparatus that is largely based on social media activity, including posts, tweets, self-imagery and the videos themselves, which are tied to a certain logic according to environmental affordances, creating the possibility for fans to interact (share, comment, like, retweet etc.) with artifacts of the celebrity. This mechanism puts the celebrity in a so-called expert system (Giddens 1990) position as they provide adequate schemas of attitude, mentality or behavior. Most importantly, all of these public interactions are accessible for scholars to conduct scientific research. With the help of the SentiOne application this research attempts to reconstruct online networks of video bloggers based on mentions, which either occurred in an artifact (post, video description etc.) or in a fan comment. Apart from the network itself, SentiOne enables us to get insights regarding each individual connection established in it with different types of aggregated data.