Vera Slavtcheva‐petkova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4899863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vera Slavtcheva‐petkova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vera |
| FAMILY NAME | Slavtcheva‐petkova |
| SIGNATURE | PETKOVA V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5576-4353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get’: Placing Children at the Centre of Public Service and News Media
This article puts forward the view that children should be placed at the centre of any attempts to reshape public service media provision and make news and current affairs programmes more relevant to them. Placing children at the centre means ensuring their voices are heard every step of the way and opportunities are provided for young people to become genuine co-creators of the content designed for them. Both public service and news media strugg…
Media Capture, Survival of the Corruptest and Journalistic Agency: The Case of Bulgaria
Democratic backsliding has been on the rise globally, including in the established and transitional democracies of the Global North, with populist leaders adopting similar practices of undermining the epistemology of journalism or attempting to capture news media outright. A representative survey with 391 Bulgarian journalists conducted as part of the Worlds of Journalism Study in 2021–2024 shows that corruption through the misuse of European and…
Conceptualizing Journalists' Safety around the Globe
Discussing Trump’s America Online: Digital Commenting in China, Mexico and Russia
This book offers study of online comments about Donald Trump and the USA in countries with a turbulent relation with America – China, Mexico and Russia.
Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety around the Globe
Killings, as the most extreme form of violence against journalists, receive considerable attention, but journalists experience a variety of threats from surveillance to gendered cyber targeting and hate speech, or even the intentional deprivation of their financial basis. This article provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework of journalists’ safety, summarized in a conceptual model. The aim is to advance the study of journalists’ safe…
Local Journalism in Bulgaria
This chapter explores the state of local and regional journalism in Bulgaria by drawing upon data from the Worlds of Journalism study. The second wave (2012–2016) included a representative survey with more than 27,500 journalists from 67 countries. The results show a few major differences between local and national journalists in Bulgaria. Local journalists professed a much stronger normative commitment to media law, ethics, and regulation. Howev…
Post-Truth” Politics, Journalistic Corruption and the Process of Self-Othering: The case of Bulgaria
The poorest EU member-state Bulgaria also has the lowest press freedom ranking, significantly lagging behind all EU members, including neighbouring Romania and Greece. While “a laggard” in many respects, the country has leadership potential in at least one area: “post-truth” politics is not a new phenomenon. A prime example of its powerful impact was the ascent to power of the country's former king whose promise to change Bulgarians’ lives in 800…
Fighting Putin and the Kremlin’s grip in neo-authoritarian Russia: The experience of liberal journalists
Russia is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, and the conflict with Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria present even further challenges for the future of Russian journalism. In addition to the financial pressures, physical attacks, abductions and harassment, liberal journalists now face an increasing threat to the democratising role they see themselves as playing. President Vladimir Putin’s soaring popularity and the elabor…
Agents and Voices: A Panorama of Media Education in Brazil, Portugal and Spain
In 2014 the Clearinghouse for the first time published a yearbook in Spanish and Portuguese. The anthology deals with common aspects in media education shared by the three countries despite cultural, economic and educational differences. This anthology has now been made available in English
Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: Implications for policy and research
Intense media and policy focus on issues of online child protection have prompted a resurgence of moral panics about children and adolescents' Internet use, with frequent confounding of different types of risk and harm and little reference to empirical evidence of actual harm. Meanwhile, within the academic literature, the quantity and quality of studies detailing the risks and opportunities of online activity for children and young people has ri…
We Are Not Fools”: Online News Commentators’ Perceptions of Real and Ideal Journalism
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Eastern European countries face an increasing threat to their media pluralism and democracies after a lot of media corporations fell in the hands of local owners. The region is plagued by “mini-Murdochs,” and Bulgaria is a case in point. This study investigates a subset of Bulgarian online newspaper readers’ perceptions of the state of journalism. The article presents the results from a qualita…
Towards a Sociology of the EU: The Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Ethnicity and Young People’s European Knowledge, Attitudes and Identities
This article explores the relationship between social backgrounds—socio-economic status and ethnicity—and European knowledge, identities and attitudes to European Union (EU) membership in two member states—the Eastern European newcomer Bulgaria and the Western European notoriously Eurosceptic United Kingdom. Itadopts an empirical sociological approach in line with recent calls for more sociological input into EU studies. By drawing on 174 individ…
The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
“I'm from Europe, but I'm Not European”: Television and children's identities in England and Bulgaria
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Children and Media on 5/11/2012 available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17482798.2012.740416
The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age
Europe – a default or a dream? European identity formation among Bulgarian and English children
This article examines the formation of European identity among children in two very different countries: the traditionally Eurosceptic United Kingdom and the enthusiastic EU newcomer, Bulgaria. The paper revisits existing debates about the relationships between European identity, knowledge and the political and historical context, paying particular attention to the meanings attached to Europe. It demonstrates that children who identify as Europea…
Fighting Putin and the Kremlin’s grip in neo-authoritarian Russia: The experience of liberal journalists
Russia is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, and the conflict with Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria present even further challenges for the future of Russian journalism. In addition to the financial pressures, physical attacks, abductions and harassment, liberal journalists now face an increasing threat to the democratising role they see themselves as playing. President Vladimir Putin’s soaring popularity and the elabor…
Europe – a default or a dream? European identity formation among Bulgarian and English children
This article examines the formation of European identity among children in two very different countries: the traditionally Eurosceptic United Kingdom and the enthusiastic EU newcomer, Bulgaria. The paper revisits existing debates about the relationships between European identity, knowledge and the political and historical context, paying particular attention to the meanings attached to Europe. It demonstrates that children who identify as Europea…
Post-Truth” Politics, Journalistic Corruption and the Process of Self-Othering: The case of Bulgaria
The poorest EU member-state Bulgaria also has the lowest press freedom ranking, significantly lagging behind all EU members, including neighbouring Romania and Greece. While “a laggard” in many respects, the country has leadership potential in at least one area: “post-truth” politics is not a new phenomenon. A prime example of its powerful impact was the ascent to power of the country's former king whose promise to change Bulgarians’ lives in 800…
Towards a Sociology of the EU: The Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Ethnicity and Young People’s European Knowledge, Attitudes and Identities
This article explores the relationship between social backgrounds—socio-economic status and ethnicity—and European knowledge, identities and attitudes to European Union (EU) membership in two member states—the Eastern European newcomer Bulgaria and the Western European notoriously Eurosceptic United Kingdom. Itadopts an empirical sociological approach in line with recent calls for more sociological input into EU studies. By drawing on 174 individ…
We Are Not Fools”: Online News Commentators’ Perceptions of Real and Ideal Journalism
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Eastern European countries face an increasing threat to their media pluralism and democracies after a lot of media corporations fell in the hands of local owners. The region is plagued by “mini-Murdochs,” and Bulgaria is a case in point. This study investigates a subset of Bulgarian online newspaper readers’ perceptions of the state of journalism. The article presents the results from a qualita…
The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
“I'm from Europe, but I'm Not European”: Television and children's identities in England and Bulgaria
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Children and Media on 5/11/2012 available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17482798.2012.740416
The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age
Europe – a default or a dream? European identity formation among Bulgarian and English children
This article examines the formation of European identity among children in two very different countries: the traditionally Eurosceptic United Kingdom and the enthusiastic EU newcomer, Bulgaria. The paper revisits existing debates about the relationships between European identity, knowledge and the political and historical context, paying particular attention to the meanings attached to Europe. It demonstrates that children who identify as Europea…
The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: Implications for policy and research
Intense media and policy focus on issues of online child protection have prompted a resurgence of moral panics about children and adolescents' Internet use, with frequent confounding of different types of risk and harm and little reference to empirical evidence of actual harm. Meanwhile, within the academic literature, the quantity and quality of studies detailing the risks and opportunities of online activity for children and young people has ri…
We Are Not Fools”: Online News Commentators’ Perceptions of Real and Ideal Journalism
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Eastern European countries face an increasing threat to their media pluralism and democracies after a lot of media corporations fell in the hands of local owners. The region is plagued by “mini-Murdochs,” and Bulgaria is a case in point. This study investigates a subset of Bulgarian online newspaper readers’ perceptions of the state of journalism. The article presents the results from a qualita…
Towards a Sociology of the EU: The Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Ethnicity and Young People’s European Knowledge, Attitudes and Identities
This article explores the relationship between social backgrounds—socio-economic status and ethnicity—and European knowledge, identities and attitudes to European Union (EU) membership in two member states—the Eastern European newcomer Bulgaria and the Western European notoriously Eurosceptic United Kingdom. Itadopts an empirical sociological approach in line with recent calls for more sociological input into EU studies. By drawing on 174 individ…
Agents and Voices: A Panorama of Media Education in Brazil, Portugal and Spain
In 2014 the Clearinghouse for the first time published a yearbook in Spanish and Portuguese. The anthology deals with common aspects in media education shared by the three countries despite cultural, economic and educational differences. This anthology has now been made available in English
Fighting Putin and the Kremlin’s grip in neo-authoritarian Russia: The experience of liberal journalists
Russia is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, and the conflict with Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria present even further challenges for the future of Russian journalism. In addition to the financial pressures, physical attacks, abductions and harassment, liberal journalists now face an increasing threat to the democratising role they see themselves as playing. President Vladimir Putin’s soaring popularity and the elabor…
Post-Truth” Politics, Journalistic Corruption and the Process of Self-Othering: The case of Bulgaria
The poorest EU member-state Bulgaria also has the lowest press freedom ranking, significantly lagging behind all EU members, including neighbouring Romania and Greece. While “a laggard” in many respects, the country has leadership potential in at least one area: “post-truth” politics is not a new phenomenon. A prime example of its powerful impact was the ascent to power of the country's former king whose promise to change Bulgarians’ lives in 800…
Local Journalism in Bulgaria
This chapter explores the state of local and regional journalism in Bulgaria by drawing upon data from the Worlds of Journalism study. The second wave (2012–2016) included a representative survey with more than 27,500 journalists from 67 countries. The results show a few major differences between local and national journalists in Bulgaria. Local journalists professed a much stronger normative commitment to media law, ethics, and regulation. Howev…
Discussing Trump’s America Online: Digital Commenting in China, Mexico and Russia
This book offers study of online comments about Donald Trump and the USA in countries with a turbulent relation with America – China, Mexico and Russia.
Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety around the Globe
Killings, as the most extreme form of violence against journalists, receive considerable attention, but journalists experience a variety of threats from surveillance to gendered cyber targeting and hate speech, or even the intentional deprivation of their financial basis. This article provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework of journalists’ safety, summarized in a conceptual model. The aim is to advance the study of journalists’ safe…
Conceptualizing Journalists' Safety around the Globe
‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get’: Placing Children at the Centre of Public Service and News Media
This article puts forward the view that children should be placed at the centre of any attempts to reshape public service media provision and make news and current affairs programmes more relevant to them. Placing children at the centre means ensuring their voices are heard every step of the way and opportunities are provided for young people to become genuine co-creators of the content designed for them. Both public service and news media strugg…
Media Capture, Survival of the Corruptest and Journalistic Agency: The Case of Bulgaria
Democratic backsliding has been on the rise globally, including in the established and transitional democracies of the Global North, with populist leaders adopting similar practices of undermining the epistemology of journalism or attempting to capture news media outright. A representative survey with 391 Bulgarian journalists conducted as part of the Worlds of Journalism Study in 2021–2024 shows that corruption through the misuse of European and…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)