Hasan Saliu

Biographic Data

ID4163046
NAMEHasan Saliu
GIVEN NAMESHasan
FAMILY NAMESaliu
SIGNATURESALIU H
AFFILIATIONSAAB College
ORCID0000-0002-5864-3645
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The decline of Soft Power

    Open AccessHasan SaliuARTICLEAustralian and New Zealand…2026

    This paper argues that the concept of soft power, as originally formulated by Joseph Nye, is no longer fully applicable in today’s context, given both the nature of the values it promotes and the evolving means by which these values are disseminated, as well as the actors who communicate them. Using a problematisation approach, the paper shows that the Western values described by Nye in 1990 were once highly attractive to countries that lacked th…

  • Mob censorship as a new challenge for journalists

    Open AccessHasan Saliu, Bujar TafaARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2026

    This study explores the impact of mob censorship on journalists’ professional practices and emotional well-being. Emerging within the last five years, mob censorship refers to the mobilization of online publics—often fueled by social media, political polarization, and populist discourse—to harass, delegitimize, and silence journalists. Kosovo serves as a particularly relevant case, being the first European country without daily print newspapers, …

  • Gutenberg’s death in the Balkans

    Open AccessHasan Saliu, Ramadan Çipuri et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2024

    When the audience shifted online in the age of social media and platformization, the gulf amongst journalists on what constitutes news today grew. Television journalists and editors continue to feel that the public should be provided with the information they need, i.e. the elite-centric method, whereas digital journalists and social media managers believe that the public should be presented with what the public wants, i.e. the popular-centric ap…

  • Narratives of Public Diplomacy in the post-Truth Era

    Open AccessHasan SaliuARTICLECommunication & Society2023Cited by: 1References: 33

    This article aims to build a better understanding of today’s communicative changes of public diplomacy in the post-truth era. Today, our communication environment has changed compared to decades ago: about 5 billion people communicate online and compete among themselves through their social media narratives, which are the main platform for the distribution of fake news in the post-truth era. The question posed here is: what are the winning narrat…

  • Revisiting Hallin and Mancini's Media Model

    Open AccessHasan Saliu, Ardita Reçi et al.ARTICLEBalkan Social Science Review2023References: 21

    This study aims to examine the professional standards of journalists in Albania and Kosovo to determine the relevance of Hallin and Mancini's media system in the age of digital journalism and social media. This is because the media system continues to be an important analytical tool for understanding the fundamental characteristics of national media and comparing media sectors across countries. A qualitative method was utilized to elucidate this,…

  • The Evolution of the Concept of Public Diplomacy from the Perspective of Communication Stakeholders

    Open AccessHasan SaliuARTICLEMedijska istraživanja2020Cited by: 1References: 4

    The purpose of this article was to analyse the concept of public diplomacy from the perspective of communication actors. Public diplomacy implies the communication between state and non-state actors and the foreign public, and the process of informing, influencing, establishing long-term relations and realizing foreign policy goals. While most studies to date view such communication activities as social interactions, some scholars consider them t…