TY  - CONF
AU  - Išpanović, Igor
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3640
AB  - Precarity can be conceived as a fundamental condition of present-day journalism. This notion has primarily been utilized to describe the transformations that occurred with changing employment conditions, market flexibilization, and financial insecurity. While this has become the norm, it often overlooks nuances of precarity that journalists face, such as its bodily and political aspects. In this paper, I explore the extent to which proximity to the events and individuals journalists report on configures their experience of political precarity. To that end, I employ the concept of affective proximity, which refers to how locals navigate and reconcile their emotional and embodied entanglement within events in their country and community. The profession of journalism has traditionally been thought of as predicated on distance. However, this is not often the case for local journalists, who are not only working in but also representing and participating in the community they report on. Being physically present and belonging to that community, these journalists encounter the people they write about in streets, grocery stores, and restaurants. This paper will be based on ten semi-structured, in-depth interviews with journalists working in local media in Serbia. Centered around questions of journalists’ status in the community, the research will shed further light on the perils and risks to their political and social personhood.
PB  - Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy
C3  - Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS
T1  - Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640
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https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640

Išpanović I. Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist. in Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS. 2023;.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640 .

Išpanović, Igor, "Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist" in Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS (2023),
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640 .

TY  - CONF
AU  - Išpanović, Igor
AU  - Ilić, Vujo
AU  - Ninković Slavnić, Danka
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2945
AB  - News about the war in Ukraine is still present on the daily agenda in Serbia and the
world, more than a year after the Russian invasion commenced. In times of crisis, such
as this, citizens increasingly rely on the media for truthful and relevant information.
However, the media have experienced a decline in trust in the last decade, and the circulation of
disinformation and fake news has become part of everyday life. This is particularly the case in
Serbia, where the political polarization has spread to editorial policies, media reporting and the
selection of the news. This paper focuses on citizens’ media habits and perceptions of journalistic
reporting regarding the war in Ukraine. It is a part of a broader research, which aimed at
providing a comprehensive understanding of citizens' relationship with news, especially in the
digital environment. It was modeled according to the questionnaire for Digital News Report
developed by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The basic questionnaire for 2022
was utilized, along with some questions from the previous years and a supplementary
questionnaire on the conflict in Ukraine. A quota sample was used, consisting of a total of 2,027
adult citizens of Serbia. The results show that people in Serbia rate the media's work much worse
than citizens of other countries when it comes to the war in Ukraine. However, respondents who
are closer to the Russian side in the conflict evaluate media reporting more positively. Unlike
other countries, where people turn to television as the main news source, the results indicate a
significant use of apps and websites of mainstream media in Serbia in this regard. The
importance of this research is that it provides insight into how citizens assess reporting on the
war, a perspective often missing when discussing the media and conflict.
PB  - Novi Sad : Filozofski fakultet
C3  - The Bridges of Media Education
T1  - The War in Ukraine: News Consumption Pattern of Serbian Citizens
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2945
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world, more than a year after the Russian invasion commenced. In times of crisis, such
as this, citizens increasingly rely on the media for truthful and relevant information.
However, the media have experienced a decline in trust in the last decade, and the circulation of
disinformation and fake news has become part of everyday life. This is particularly the case in
Serbia, where the political polarization has spread to editorial policies, media reporting and the
selection of the news. This paper focuses on citizens’ media habits and perceptions of journalistic
reporting regarding the war in Ukraine. It is a part of a broader research, which aimed at
providing a comprehensive understanding of citizens' relationship with news, especially in the
digital environment. It was modeled according to the questionnaire for Digital News Report
developed by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The basic questionnaire for 2022
was utilized, along with some questions from the previous years and a supplementary
questionnaire on the conflict in Ukraine. A quota sample was used, consisting of a total of 2,027
adult citizens of Serbia. The results show that people in Serbia rate the media's work much worse
than citizens of other countries when it comes to the war in Ukraine. However, respondents who
are closer to the Russian side in the conflict evaluate media reporting more positively. Unlike
other countries, where people turn to television as the main news source, the results indicate a
significant use of apps and websites of mainstream media in Serbia in this regard. The
importance of this research is that it provides insight into how citizens assess reporting on the
war, a perspective often missing when discussing the media and conflict.",
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https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2945

Išpanović I, Ilić V, Ninković Slavnić D. The War in Ukraine: News Consumption Pattern of Serbian Citizens. in The Bridges of Media Education. 2023;.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2945 .

Išpanović, Igor, Ilić, Vujo, Ninković Slavnić, Danka, "The War in Ukraine: News Consumption Pattern of Serbian Citizens" in The Bridges of Media Education (2023),
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2945 .

TY  - RPRT
AU  - Kleut, Jelena
AU  - Ninković Slavnić, Danka
AU  - Ilić, Vujo
AU  - Išpanović, Igor
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2823
AB  - Relevantnost medijskih organizacija kao
izvora vesti postaje upitna u vremenu u kojem
se umnožavaju akteri javne komunikacije i
usložnjavaju strukture pristupa informacijama.
Nije novost da digitalne platforme, posebno
one za društveno umrežavanje, stvaraju nove
mogućnosti, ali i prepreke za medije.
PB  - Novi Sad: Nezavisno društvo novinara Vojvodine
T1  - Izveštaj o digitalnim vestima – Srbija
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2823
ER  - 

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Kleut J, Ninković Slavnić D, Ilić V, Išpanović I. Izveštaj o digitalnim vestima – Srbija. 2023;.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2823 .

Kleut, Jelena, Ninković Slavnić, Danka, Ilić, Vujo, Išpanović, Igor, "Izveštaj o digitalnim vestima – Srbija" (2023),
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2823 .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Išpanović, Igor
PY  - 2022
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2781
AB  - The socio-political context in Serbia is oversaturated with ideologically charged resources utilised in the construction of populist identities, such as the semiotic network around the concept of ‘fascism’. The practices of signifying a ‘fascist’ threat have become more complex with the surge of multimodal digital platforms. The media combine various expressive repertoires in materialising the multiplicity of meaning. Thus, social semiotics serve as a fitting theoretical starting point. One of the objectives of the research is to identify the plurality of discourses floating around the constructed ‘fascist’ constellation. In this research, content published on the websites of Serbian daily newspapers Danas and Informer is examined. The label ‘fascist’ functions as an exclusionary strategy in both instances; however, there are differences in portraying ‘fascist’ actors and institutional responses to its destructive potential. Moreover, respective styles and presentations of information, such as tabloidisation, are used to further legitimise the reality of the ‘fascist’ threat.
PB  - University of the Free State, South Africa
T2  - Acta Academica
T1  - Analysis of fascism as a signifier in online editions of daily newspapers Danas and Informer
IS  - 3
VL  - 54
SP  - 30
EP  - 48
DO  - 10.18820/24150479/aa54i3/3
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Išpanović, Igor, "Analysis of fascism as a signifier in online editions of daily newspapers Danas and Informer" in Acta Academica, 54, no. 3 (2022):30-48,
https://doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa54i3/3 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Išpanović, Igor
PY  - 2022
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2780
AB  - Contemporary right-wing actors in Serbia are exploiting social media logic in order to disseminate a particular pseudohistorical, populist “us” against “them” reconfiguration of the nation’s past. Its mythmaking foundations – e.g., the contentious question of ‘who was here first’ – are traceable and reminiscent of the dominant separatist narratives emerging from ethnic tensions in ex-Yugoslavia, which manifested in one of the most frightening conflicts on European soil after World War II. The online content of these pseudohistorians has gained hundreds of thousands of views on different platforms, especially YouTube, with channels like Srbija Global, HelmCast, and BALKAN INFO rapidly earning a dedicated fanbase. Despite the extensive literature on the discursive strategies of the far-right in the construction of collective memory and national identity in post-socialist countries, little has been done in applying the narrative approach to the analysis of populists’ storytelling practices in regard to the present sociopolitical moment. The aim of this article is to uncover the nationalist underpinnings behind the symbolic geo-political spaces and proposed alternative historical timelines of the Balkans. I rely on Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope, which posits the influence of time-space conjuncture on identity, to follow the plurality of cultural and mythical narrative threads woven into the national fabric. Drawing inspiration from a rich storytelling heritage, the historical revisionism of the Serbian far-right borrows elements from the classical Ulyssean motif of “a home long lost” and the biblical tragic character arc of “a banished Jewish tribe”. This intruder syndrome is formed in an anxiety-filled vacuum between the crisis-driven present and the glorified past. This is why I also utilise Bakhtin’s concept of dialogue and Boym’s understanding of nostalgia as historical emotion to reveal the ideological connectedness between the opposing historical topographies. The findings indicate that the discursive practice of “homeland making” serves as a compensation for the dissolution of a supposedly ethnically homogenous and culturally related entities – Republic of Srpska, Montenegro and Kosovo, territories perceived as national and spiritual cradles of Serbia. Moreover, the sentiment of the greater European irrelevance emphasizes the need for enhancing the national self-perception, and the reimagined, ancient past provides the hearth around which political emotions are ignited.
PB  - Leicester: School of Media, Communication and Sociology
T2  - For(e)Dialogue
T1  - The Home is Where…: The Chronotopes of the Origin Myth in Pseudohistorical Narratives of the Serbian Far-Right.
IS  - 1
VL  - 4
DO  - 10.21428/e3990ae6.9b81f1fc
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Leicester: School of Media, Communication and Sociology., 4(1).
https://doi.org/10.21428/e3990ae6.9b81f1fc

Išpanović I. The Home is Where…: The Chronotopes of the Origin Myth in Pseudohistorical Narratives of the Serbian Far-Right.. in For(e)Dialogue. 2022;4(1).
doi:10.21428/e3990ae6.9b81f1fc .

Išpanović, Igor, "The Home is Where…: The Chronotopes of the Origin Myth in Pseudohistorical Narratives of the Serbian Far-Right." in For(e)Dialogue, 4, no. 1 (2022),
https://doi.org/10.21428/e3990ae6.9b81f1fc . .