Jaka Primorac
Biographic Data
| ID | 821487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaka Primorac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Primorac |
| SIGNATURE | PRIMORAC J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Development and International Relations |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6969-4598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Audience engagement with comedy films in small European markets’
Comedy Films are a popular genre among audiences in Europe, especially in small European film markets (Higson, 2021a, b; Jones, 2024). Despite its popularity, there is a gap in the empirical study of its audiences, that this paper addresses, by asking (1) How do comedies perform in small European markets? (2) What factors motivate audiences to engage with comedies in those markets? Drawing on a theoretical approach to audiences as active meaning-…
The global/local and omnivore/univore nexus
IN ENGLISH: Research on Bourdieu’s “homology” thesis and Peterson’s “omnivore” hypothesis, as well as research on cultural cosmopolitanism, are integral to academic considerations of the interrelationship between class and cultural tastes. This paper contributes to such work by examining cultural tastes in Croatia, a context that occupies a peripheral position in the global cultural system. Multiple correspondence analysis and hierarchical cluste…
Audiences, content diversity and streaming platforms in small European countries
The rapid growth of streaming platforms and their catalogues has transformed the way audiences engage with content, offering unprecedented content choices. This article delves into the presence of content from small countries on VoDs in Europe and explores how users engage with such content on different types of VoD services. Based on a literature review, an analysis of content availability in European VoD catalogues and the results of qualitativ…
The ‘dark side’ of organizational resilience
This article explores the challenges experienced by civil society organizations (CSOs) in Croatia, as magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the strategies they use to mitigate their effects. 'Organisational resilience' is discussed based on interviews with CSO representatives from four fields: contemporary arts and culture, environmental protection, women's rights, and educational/youth organizations. Three themes are developed: the 'normal…
Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe
What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe. Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the analysis of EU digital cultural policy, the book investigates what happens when cultural policy gets changed and challenged by digital culture. Based …
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe
To what extent did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the tools, priorities and organisation of cultural policies? And did the pandemic enhance the digital aspect of these policies? This paper compares pandemic cultural policy measures in seven European countries to answer these questions. The countries all installed a plurality of mitigating measures, combining grants and subsidies, compensation of lost income, income support and financial flexibility…
Izgubljeni prihodi i pronađena solidarnost
SAETAK U radu se donose rezultati istraivanja o utjecaju prvog vala pandemije bolesti CO-VID-19 na ivot i rad kulturnih radnika i radnica
Film globally, work locally
Research on incoming productions has shown the complex picture of transnational power relations between governments, (multinational) media companies and the global network of precarious workers. Drawing on the findings of a case study on the introduction of the Production Incentive (PI) programme within the audio-visual policy in Croatia, this paper shows that the effectiveness of this policy instrument depends on the following socioeconomic fact…
Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction
Access to Culture in the Digital Environment
Access issues have been placed in cultural policy focus with the aim to contribute to cultural development, social inclusion, quality of life, etc. and the digital domain opportunities have been looked at as a way to ensure delivering content to interested users. The issue of access to culture in the digital context is understood in terms of reducing obstacles, as well as, fostering opportunities. The concept is understood as the dynamic and soci…
Access to culture in Croatian cultural policy
In this paper through the analysis of the access to culture issue in the Croatian cultural policy agenda, we illustrate the current cultural policy developments in Croatia in the broader European context. Taking the differentiation between explicit and implicit policies at both macro and micro level we analyse discourses on access to culture in the Croatian cultural policy at the constitutional level, parliamentary political parties’ level, the g…
Michael Billig, Learn to Write Badly
Rad je prikaz knjige Michaela Billiga 'Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences'
Od nesigurnosti do nesigurnosti
U clanku se analiziraju kljucni aspekti rada i zaposlenosti u kulturnim i kreativnim industrijama. Nakon pregleda posebnosti kulturnih i kreativnih industrija od važnosti za razvoj rada i zaposlenosti, problematiziran je i utjecaj informacijskokomunikacijskih tehnologija na njihove promjene pri cemu se istice i pojava participacijskih modela rada i suradnje. U clanku se nadalje iznosi podjela kulturnih radnika/ca, zatim se pruža pregled oblika za…
David Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Baker, Creative Labour
Mediating Europe
Mediating Europe: New media, mass communications and the European public sphere." Visual Studies, 26(1), pp. 81–82
Mediating Europe
Mediating Europe: New media, mass communications and the European public sphere." Visual Studies, 26(1), pp. 81–82
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe
To what extent did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the tools, priorities and organisation of cultural policies? And did the pandemic enhance the digital aspect of these policies? This paper compares pandemic cultural policy measures in seven European countries to answer these questions. The countries all installed a plurality of mitigating measures, combining grants and subsidies, compensation of lost income, income support and financial flexibility…
Film globally, work locally
Research on incoming productions has shown the complex picture of transnational power relations between governments, (multinational) media companies and the global network of precarious workers. Drawing on the findings of a case study on the introduction of the Production Incentive (PI) programme within the audio-visual policy in Croatia, this paper shows that the effectiveness of this policy instrument depends on the following socioeconomic fact…
Access to culture in Croatian cultural policy
In this paper through the analysis of the access to culture issue in the Croatian cultural policy agenda, we illustrate the current cultural policy developments in Croatia in the broader European context. Taking the differentiation between explicit and implicit policies at both macro and micro level we analyse discourses on access to culture in the Croatian cultural policy at the constitutional level, parliamentary political parties’ level, the g…
Audience engagement with comedy films in small European markets’
Comedy Films are a popular genre among audiences in Europe, especially in small European film markets (Higson, 2021a, b; Jones, 2024). Despite its popularity, there is a gap in the empirical study of its audiences, that this paper addresses, by asking (1) How do comedies perform in small European markets? (2) What factors motivate audiences to engage with comedies in those markets? Drawing on a theoretical approach to audiences as active meaning-…
Access to Culture in the Digital Environment
Access issues have been placed in cultural policy focus with the aim to contribute to cultural development, social inclusion, quality of life, etc. and the digital domain opportunities have been looked at as a way to ensure delivering content to interested users. The issue of access to culture in the digital context is understood in terms of reducing obstacles, as well as, fostering opportunities. The concept is understood as the dynamic and soci…
Mediating Europe
Mediating Europe: New media, mass communications and the European public sphere." Visual Studies, 26(1), pp. 81–82
Od nesigurnosti do nesigurnosti
U clanku se analiziraju kljucni aspekti rada i zaposlenosti u kulturnim i kreativnim industrijama. Nakon pregleda posebnosti kulturnih i kreativnih industrija od važnosti za razvoj rada i zaposlenosti, problematiziran je i utjecaj informacijskokomunikacijskih tehnologija na njihove promjene pri cemu se istice i pojava participacijskih modela rada i suradnje. U clanku se nadalje iznosi podjela kulturnih radnika/ca, zatim se pruža pregled oblika za…
David Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Baker, Creative Labour
Michael Billig, Learn to Write Badly
Rad je prikaz knjige Michaela Billiga 'Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences'
Access to culture in Croatian cultural policy
In this paper through the analysis of the access to culture issue in the Croatian cultural policy agenda, we illustrate the current cultural policy developments in Croatia in the broader European context. Taking the differentiation between explicit and implicit policies at both macro and micro level we analyse discourses on access to culture in the Croatian cultural policy at the constitutional level, parliamentary political parties’ level, the g…
Access to Culture in the Digital Environment
Access issues have been placed in cultural policy focus with the aim to contribute to cultural development, social inclusion, quality of life, etc. and the digital domain opportunities have been looked at as a way to ensure delivering content to interested users. The issue of access to culture in the digital context is understood in terms of reducing obstacles, as well as, fostering opportunities. The concept is understood as the dynamic and soci…
Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction
Film globally, work locally
Research on incoming productions has shown the complex picture of transnational power relations between governments, (multinational) media companies and the global network of precarious workers. Drawing on the findings of a case study on the introduction of the Production Incentive (PI) programme within the audio-visual policy in Croatia, this paper shows that the effectiveness of this policy instrument depends on the following socioeconomic fact…
Izgubljeni prihodi i pronađena solidarnost
SAETAK U radu se donose rezultati istraivanja o utjecaju prvog vala pandemije bolesti CO-VID-19 na ivot i rad kulturnih radnika i radnica
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe
To what extent did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the tools, priorities and organisation of cultural policies? And did the pandemic enhance the digital aspect of these policies? This paper compares pandemic cultural policy measures in seven European countries to answer these questions. The countries all installed a plurality of mitigating measures, combining grants and subsidies, compensation of lost income, income support and financial flexibility…
Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe
What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe. Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the analysis of EU digital cultural policy, the book investigates what happens when cultural policy gets changed and challenged by digital culture. Based …
The ‘dark side’ of organizational resilience
This article explores the challenges experienced by civil society organizations (CSOs) in Croatia, as magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the strategies they use to mitigate their effects. 'Organisational resilience' is discussed based on interviews with CSO representatives from four fields: contemporary arts and culture, environmental protection, women's rights, and educational/youth organizations. Three themes are developed: the 'normal…
Audience engagement with comedy films in small European markets’
Comedy Films are a popular genre among audiences in Europe, especially in small European film markets (Higson, 2021a, b; Jones, 2024). Despite its popularity, there is a gap in the empirical study of its audiences, that this paper addresses, by asking (1) How do comedies perform in small European markets? (2) What factors motivate audiences to engage with comedies in those markets? Drawing on a theoretical approach to audiences as active meaning-…
The global/local and omnivore/univore nexus
IN ENGLISH: Research on Bourdieu’s “homology” thesis and Peterson’s “omnivore” hypothesis, as well as research on cultural cosmopolitanism, are integral to academic considerations of the interrelationship between class and cultural tastes. This paper contributes to such work by examining cultural tastes in Croatia, a context that occupies a peripheral position in the global cultural system. Multiple correspondence analysis and hierarchical cluste…
Audiences, content diversity and streaming platforms in small European countries
The rapid growth of streaming platforms and their catalogues has transformed the way audiences engage with content, offering unprecedented content choices. This article delves into the presence of content from small countries on VoDs in Europe and explores how users engage with such content on different types of VoD services. Based on a literature review, an analysis of content availability in European VoD catalogues and the results of qualitativ…
Political science (11 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Croatian (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)