Aleksandra Krstić
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Krstić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Krstić |
| SIGNATURE | KRSTIC A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0090-9911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking Public Opinion Studies in the Digital Era
The goal of our study was twofold. First, we aimed to recognize how concepts, factors, and artificial intelligence-driven challenges in research on public opinion vary across experts with different experiences in the field. Second, we examined how experts envision the future of the field in the evolving media landscape. We invited public opinion scholars from more than 30 countries to participate in the survey. Findings showed that public opinion…
Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem
Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital media, little theory exists that considers their emergence and discursive dynamics. In this article, we conceptualize public opinion negotiations in a digital media ecosystem as a discursive process aimed at delimiting the latitude of normatively acceptable opinions. Building upon theoretical work on pre…
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats
Studies suggest that, at the routine level, news beats function as unique “micro-cultures.” Exploring this “particularist” approach in news content, we compare how the interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news. Based on the second …
Digital transformation of journalism and media in Serbia
The aim of this paper is to sketch a brief history of complex digital transformation of media and journalism in the context of Serbia, a European country which has undergone politically turbulent transition from authoritarian to democratic rule over the past 20 years. Despite the long process of the EU integration, the country has been recently downgraded to a partly free hybrid regime with rapid decline of press freedom, high political and media…
Faceless, estranged and dangerous
Contemporary research on media reporting about migrants and refugees has been intensified since the 2015 European migrant crisis. However, only a limited number of authors focus on the visual representation of female migrants, which has been recognised to lead to more positive citizens' perceptions and the development of the "culture of hospitality" (Bleiker et al., 2014). The main objective of this paper is to identify dominant visual frame in w…
Visual framing of migrants and refugees in Serbia’s media from 2015 until 2020
The research of media presentation of migrants and refugees has been intensified in recent years, especially after 2015 when several million people fled their homes from the war zones in the Middle East and Africa. Contemporary scholarship focusing on journalistic and media reporting on migrant crisis has been mainly researching Western European and the US media context, as well as verbal media narratives of print media outlets. Only a small numb…
The Politics of Giving Voice
Serbia was highly polarized ahead of the 2010 Pride parade in Belgrade, an event marred by violence. It is often assumed that the media played a negative role by uncritically giving voice to anti-LGBT activists. To investigate this claim, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of media reporting as well as 25 in-depth interviews with journalists. We conclude that the media denied extremists direct access to the media. However, due t…
Competitive Authoritarianism and Populism in Serbia Under Vučić in Political Cartoons
We explored links between competitive authoritarianism and populism in Serbia under Vučić via mixed \nmethods. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of 228 political cartoons (2013–2017) by Dušan \nPetričić, a leading cartoonist and government critic, and qualitative visual and contextual analysis of \nfour cartoons that reflected key themes—media freedom violations, unfair political competition, and \npopulist and abusive rule. We found t…
Visual metaphor and authoritarianism in Serbian political cartoons
This article examines how political cartoons reflected and mobilized resistance to growing authoritarianism and the personalization of power in contemporary Serbia. The focus is on the work of Dušan Petričić, the most influential political cartoonist in Serbia, which was published in daily Politika and weekly NIN between 2012 and 2017. Petričić’s cartoons offer interesting insights into a dramatic decline of press freedom and the rise of authorit…
Hierarchy of influences on transitional journalism – Corrupting relationships between political, economic and media elites
In this article, we use the hierarchy-of-influences model as a framework for examining the ways in which media owners, managers and journalists perceive the influence exerted on their work during 12-year democratic transition in Serbia. We aim to explain how factors perceived as influential at the highest system level gradually transfer and relate to the factors on the subsumed levels. Using the concepts such as corruption and the culture of corr…
Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation
The 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade represents a critical moment in the story of Serbia’s democratisation process and highlights the threat that right-wing extremism poses to democratic rights and personal freedoms. Through a focus on patterns of visibility and visuality in the coverage of different protagonists in the streets of Belgrade, we explore the ways in which distinct communities perform their affinities, their right to be seen in public spac…
The Future of Journalism as a System, Profession and Culture
Currently, there is clear need for traditional journalism to redefine itself. The intention of this article is to portray the voices of future journalists in this quest. Therefore, Belgrade University journalism students were assigned to write down their contemplations about the journalism of tomorrow in essayistic form. In order to systematize their narratives, three theoretical understandings of journalism are introduced based on a literature r…
Digital switchover in Serbia in a comparative perspective
The deadline for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in Serbia is scheduled for June 2015. The aim of this article is to present the development of the digitalization process in Serbia from 2006 until 2014, and the current state a year prior to the deadline for analogue broadcasting switch-off. Considering technical, legislative, broadcasting, economic and social aspects of the process, this article argues that digital switchover…
Hierarchy of influences on transitional journalism – Corrupting relationships between political, economic and media elites
In this article, we use the hierarchy-of-influences model as a framework for examining the ways in which media owners, managers and journalists perceive the influence exerted on their work during 12-year democratic transition in Serbia. We aim to explain how factors perceived as influential at the highest system level gradually transfer and relate to the factors on the subsumed levels. Using the concepts such as corruption and the culture of corr…
Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation
The 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade represents a critical moment in the story of Serbia’s democratisation process and highlights the threat that right-wing extremism poses to democratic rights and personal freedoms. Through a focus on patterns of visibility and visuality in the coverage of different protagonists in the streets of Belgrade, we explore the ways in which distinct communities perform their affinities, their right to be seen in public spac…
Digital transformation of journalism and media in Serbia
The aim of this paper is to sketch a brief history of complex digital transformation of media and journalism in the context of Serbia, a European country which has undergone politically turbulent transition from authoritarian to democratic rule over the past 20 years. Despite the long process of the EU integration, the country has been recently downgraded to a partly free hybrid regime with rapid decline of press freedom, high political and media…
Competitive Authoritarianism and Populism in Serbia Under Vučić in Political Cartoons
We explored links between competitive authoritarianism and populism in Serbia under Vučić via mixed \nmethods. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of 228 political cartoons (2013–2017) by Dušan \nPetričić, a leading cartoonist and government critic, and qualitative visual and contextual analysis of \nfour cartoons that reflected key themes—media freedom violations, unfair political competition, and \npopulist and abusive rule. We found t…
Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem
Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital media, little theory exists that considers their emergence and discursive dynamics. In this article, we conceptualize public opinion negotiations in a digital media ecosystem as a discursive process aimed at delimiting the latitude of normatively acceptable opinions. Building upon theoretical work on pre…
The Politics of Giving Voice
Serbia was highly polarized ahead of the 2010 Pride parade in Belgrade, an event marred by violence. It is often assumed that the media played a negative role by uncritically giving voice to anti-LGBT activists. To investigate this claim, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of media reporting as well as 25 in-depth interviews with journalists. We conclude that the media denied extremists direct access to the media. However, due t…
Digital switchover in Serbia in a comparative perspective
The deadline for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in Serbia is scheduled for June 2015. The aim of this article is to present the development of the digitalization process in Serbia from 2006 until 2014, and the current state a year prior to the deadline for analogue broadcasting switch-off. Considering technical, legislative, broadcasting, economic and social aspects of the process, this article argues that digital switchover…
Digital switchover in Serbia in a comparative perspective
The deadline for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in Serbia is scheduled for June 2015. The aim of this article is to present the development of the digitalization process in Serbia from 2006 until 2014, and the current state a year prior to the deadline for analogue broadcasting switch-off. Considering technical, legislative, broadcasting, economic and social aspects of the process, this article argues that digital switchover…
The Future of Journalism as a System, Profession and Culture
Currently, there is clear need for traditional journalism to redefine itself. The intention of this article is to portray the voices of future journalists in this quest. Therefore, Belgrade University journalism students were assigned to write down their contemplations about the journalism of tomorrow in essayistic form. In order to systematize their narratives, three theoretical understandings of journalism are introduced based on a literature r…
Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation
The 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade represents a critical moment in the story of Serbia’s democratisation process and highlights the threat that right-wing extremism poses to democratic rights and personal freedoms. Through a focus on patterns of visibility and visuality in the coverage of different protagonists in the streets of Belgrade, we explore the ways in which distinct communities perform their affinities, their right to be seen in public spac…
Hierarchy of influences on transitional journalism – Corrupting relationships between political, economic and media elites
In this article, we use the hierarchy-of-influences model as a framework for examining the ways in which media owners, managers and journalists perceive the influence exerted on their work during 12-year democratic transition in Serbia. We aim to explain how factors perceived as influential at the highest system level gradually transfer and relate to the factors on the subsumed levels. Using the concepts such as corruption and the culture of corr…
Visual metaphor and authoritarianism in Serbian political cartoons
This article examines how political cartoons reflected and mobilized resistance to growing authoritarianism and the personalization of power in contemporary Serbia. The focus is on the work of Dušan Petričić, the most influential political cartoonist in Serbia, which was published in daily Politika and weekly NIN between 2012 and 2017. Petričić’s cartoons offer interesting insights into a dramatic decline of press freedom and the rise of authorit…
Faceless, estranged and dangerous
Contemporary research on media reporting about migrants and refugees has been intensified since the 2015 European migrant crisis. However, only a limited number of authors focus on the visual representation of female migrants, which has been recognised to lead to more positive citizens' perceptions and the development of the "culture of hospitality" (Bleiker et al., 2014). The main objective of this paper is to identify dominant visual frame in w…
Visual framing of migrants and refugees in Serbia’s media from 2015 until 2020
The research of media presentation of migrants and refugees has been intensified in recent years, especially after 2015 when several million people fled their homes from the war zones in the Middle East and Africa. Contemporary scholarship focusing on journalistic and media reporting on migrant crisis has been mainly researching Western European and the US media context, as well as verbal media narratives of print media outlets. Only a small numb…
The Politics of Giving Voice
Serbia was highly polarized ahead of the 2010 Pride parade in Belgrade, an event marred by violence. It is often assumed that the media played a negative role by uncritically giving voice to anti-LGBT activists. To investigate this claim, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of media reporting as well as 25 in-depth interviews with journalists. We conclude that the media denied extremists direct access to the media. However, due t…
Competitive Authoritarianism and Populism in Serbia Under Vučić in Political Cartoons
We explored links between competitive authoritarianism and populism in Serbia under Vučić via mixed \nmethods. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of 228 political cartoons (2013–2017) by Dušan \nPetričić, a leading cartoonist and government critic, and qualitative visual and contextual analysis of \nfour cartoons that reflected key themes—media freedom violations, unfair political competition, and \npopulist and abusive rule. We found t…
Digital transformation of journalism and media in Serbia
The aim of this paper is to sketch a brief history of complex digital transformation of media and journalism in the context of Serbia, a European country which has undergone politically turbulent transition from authoritarian to democratic rule over the past 20 years. Despite the long process of the EU integration, the country has been recently downgraded to a partly free hybrid regime with rapid decline of press freedom, high political and media…
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats
Studies suggest that, at the routine level, news beats function as unique “micro-cultures.” Exploring this “particularist” approach in news content, we compare how the interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news. Based on the second …
Rethinking Public Opinion Studies in the Digital Era
The goal of our study was twofold. First, we aimed to recognize how concepts, factors, and artificial intelligence-driven challenges in research on public opinion vary across experts with different experiences in the field. Second, we examined how experts envision the future of the field in the evolving media landscape. We invited public opinion scholars from more than 30 countries to participate in the survey. Findings showed that public opinion…
Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem
Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital media, little theory exists that considers their emergence and discursive dynamics. In this article, we conceptualize public opinion negotiations in a digital media ecosystem as a discursive process aimed at delimiting the latitude of normatively acceptable opinions. Building upon theoretical work on pre…
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