KOME - An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2021
This data article describes a dataset showing the five-year performance of 471 researchers from 1... more This data article describes a dataset showing the five-year performance of 471 researchers from 14 Hungarian research institutions, with a total of 3219 observations. Each observation represent items produced between the 1st January 2014 and the 31th December 2018 by a researcher employed in the sampled research institutions from one of six research output types. Due to a prestige and independence-controlled categorization of research output, and the scarcity of easily accessible, well-structured data curated for research performance evaluation, this dataset can play an important role in new research evaluation policies at Hungarian research institutions aiming to enhance global competitiveness by fostering scientific excellence and innovation.
In the process of building local communities with shared cultural values, museums, libraries and ... more In the process of building local communities with shared cultural values, museums, libraries and community centres are key agents in civil society. When these institutions project specific notions and ideal types of identity and citizenship, they have the potential to produce changes in people's behaviour. It is only natural that political bodies are interested in these processes. On 16 September 2016, the Ministry of Human Capacities of the Hungarian Government launched an EU-funded project with the primary aim of strengthening social cohesion within the region. As a part of this project, we surveyed 59 professionals working in Hungarian museums, libraries and community centres, using the Delphi method, to gain insights about their capacities, needs, and visions. This article presents the results of the first round of analysis. Respondents' answers were analysed using NVivo qualitative data analysis software, which resulted in a thematic map showing the main problems professionals in these sectors are struggling with, and highlighting the kinds of visions they had for their institutions' future. The study clearly shows that the cultural sector is plagued by financial problems, and that there is a strong need for reform when it comes to the professional training of workers in these fields. Regarding the future, visions are centred around cultural institutions increasingly becoming community spaces, thinktanks, and ideas workshops that consciously guide community formation.
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2020
The 2016 migrant quota referendum and the preceding anti-migrant and anti-EU campaign in Hungary ... more The 2016 migrant quota referendum and the preceding anti-migrant and anti-EU campaign in Hungary led to a milestone in manipulating public fear of societal change by new East-Central European populism. This article maps and analyzes sentiments toward the referendum in Hungarian-language online media, using software-supported sentiment analysis of mentions of the quota referendum published online between 1 September and 31 October 2016. Results show a preponderance of negative sentiments over positive ones in both pro-government and independent media and the dominance of independent media in the coverage of the event. Coverage of the referendum received more weight in pro-government media compared to their lesser online presence, but this was fueled by astroturfed online discussion communities and content disseminated from at least one Russian state propaganda source.
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 2019
At the end of 2018, a pro-government media outlet in Hungary started
encouraging university stude... more At the end of 2018, a pro-government media outlet in Hungary started encouraging university students to report if they encounter liberal political activism in the classroom. Given the measures that the Hungarian government took against universities and liberal academic freedoms only a month before – like stop financing gender studies programmes and forcing Central European University (CEU) to relocate most of their future activities to Vienna – there is a widely supported belief in Hungarian academia that this is a part of a larger government campaign against academic freedom and the ethos of higher education in general. This commentary points out that to be able to distinguish said reports from made-out propaganda stories, it is necessary to leave their sources of information identifiable.
This letter contains suggestions for editors and software providers to help avoid affiliation bia... more This letter contains suggestions for editors and software providers to help avoid affiliation bias in the initial and concluding stages of the peer review process. Submission management systems have a responsibility to ensure protection against affiliation bias. This can be achieved by automatically withholding the author’s identity and affiliation information from all editors, including the Editor-in-Chief, until a decision about publication has been made. Journals relying on email-based submis-sions are in a more difficult situation. Not having external support in confirming the submitting author’s identity, this dilemma can be resolved through the implementation of strict instructions and guidelines concerning manuscript submission and handling. In this case the “human factor” cannot be fully eliminated, while automated processes can only be changed intentionally and with a certain delay. Therefore, with the suggested steps, submission management systems could become a strong guard against unconscious bias while also making conscious bias more difficult to impact the peer review process.
In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent
publications in the soc... more In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization, Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence, and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment.
In this study, we are looking for an answer to the question of how the relation of media and musl... more In this study, we are looking for an answer to the question of how the relation of media and muslims is represented in contemporary scientific results, produced mostly in a western research environment and, furthermore, of what similarities and differences can be shown between the circumstances characterizing the emergence of these results. As a result of IS’s activities in the Middle East, of the current civil war in Syria and of other causes, Europe is increasingly affected by the phenomenon of muslim immigration. This, as well as the problematics of national majority - Muslim minority interactions make the goal of conducting a meta-analysis of recently published results reasonable, focusing on issues of thematization, geographical distribution, analyzed samples and sample sizes as well as on grants obtained by the authors for a specific research. In the following, we realize our research objectives through conducting a systematic analysis on a section (N=33) of a larger (N=160) sample of peer-reviewed articles, and by a thematic analysis of the same section focusing on the role and influence of various media. We found that within the sample, images of Muslims in the media can be categorized in three main types: An entity using violence at the individual or state level, a victim of violence, and an outsider culturally or behaviorally in defiance of the West.
Small grant proposal for the period between August 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 of the Kelemen Mik... more Small grant proposal for the period between August 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 of the Kelemen Mikes Program; for collecting the legacy of the Hungarian diaspora from documents of libraries and archives, and for the historical study of these communities.
In the literature of sociology of religion, there is a considerable scarcity of recent thematic m... more In the literature of sociology of religion, there is a considerable scarcity of recent thematic meta-analyses. In this paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of such analyses to study thematic and spatial patterns of Christianity-focused results presented in high-impact journals. First, we created a new sampling and data cleaning protocol for collecting and selecting data from EBSCO and journal websites. Categorization was inductive and based on Grounded Theory. During the process, we identified eleven major themes in Christianity-focused research; each of these further divided into subtopics. Than all selected articles were further investigated in terms of first author affiliation, journal editor affiliation and journal publisher’s geographic location. Results shows that the analysis we have performed concerning 160 articles published in „A”-category international journals provided not only a structured overview of current themes in Christianity-focused research within the field, but also identified a major anglo-saxon research environment bias valid through both religion-specific and general studies.
A tanulmány első felében a tudományos cikkek lektorálásának intézményét igyekszünk egy-részt elmé... more A tanulmány első felében a tudományos cikkek lektorálásának intézményét igyekszünk egy-részt elméleti (logikai), másrészt gyakorlati szempontból az ész ítélőszéke elé állítni, nem feled-kezve meg a történeti perspektíváról sem. A lektorálást, mint a tudományos legitimáció intéz-ményét annak tágabb, akadémiai kontextusában értelmezzük, ezáltal kapcsolódva általában a tudományos és képzési bírálatokkal összefüggésben tárgyalható részben ismeretelméleti, rész-ben etikai kérdésekhez.
In this short study I will outline the philological, archeological and anthropological references... more In this short study I will outline the philological, archeological and anthropological references of the Egami-Ledyard-Hong model. Furthermore, I will investigate possible parallels between nation-building according to the above mentioned mythological approach and those practices according to which Anderson’s imagined communities are constructed. My results show that the Egami-Ledyard-Hong model is capable to describe some organizig principles of imagined political community in postwar Japan.
A tanulmányban a tanár-diák együttműködés szempontjából
elemezzük a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerekb... more A tanulmányban a tanár-diák együttműködés szempontjából elemezzük a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerekben (Learning Management System, LMS) és specifikusan a CooSpace-ben rejlő lehetőségeket. Az elemzés során megvizsgáljuk a Web 2.0-ás tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek kialakulásának technológiai és nem-technológiai hátterét, hogy azonosítsuk azokat a célkitűzéseket és mögöttes elképzeléseket, amelyek megvalósulásának ezek a rendszerek tekinthetőek. Célul tűztük ki továbbá olyan kérdések megfogalmazását, melyek megválaszolása segítheti a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek funkcióinak kielégítő pontosságú konceptualizálását a kommunikációtudományok területén. Ehhez szükséges volt megvizsgálni azokat a kompetenciákat, melyek megléte mind oktatói, mint pedig hallgatói részről elengedhetetlen feltétele ezen rendszerek standard és perszonalizált változatainak használatához. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy ezek a kompetenciák szorosan kapcsolódnak az autonómia személyi és közösségi fogalmához, és egyúttal ezen rendszerek ideális továbbfejlesztési irányát is nagymértékben meghatározzák.
A tanulmányban az újabb vallásszociológiai publikációkban bemutatott főbb témákat és eredményeket... more A tanulmányban az újabb vallásszociológiai publikációkban bemutatott főbb témákat és eredményeket mérjük fel. Röviden érintve a megjelent szakirodalomban lefedett fontosabb témák azonosításának gyakorlati hasznát a publikálás tervezése során; az írást azoknak a vallásszociológiai szakcikkeknek a tematikus elemzésével folytatjuk, amelyekben a kutatás nem egy konkrét vallásra vagy egy konkrét vallás híveire irányult. A specifikálatlanság e kritériumának való megfelelést 173, a MTA Szociológiai Bizottságának folyóiratlistáján szereplő vezető nemzetközi folyóirat 2010 és 2013 közti évfolyamaiból gyűjtött szakcikken vizsgáltuk, amiből végül 66-ot kódoltunk és osztályoztunk a megalapozott elmélettel konzisztens induktív kategorizálással. A folyamat során 6 fő témát (Szekularizáció, Gazdaság, Szexualitás, Politika, Egyéni megelégedettség és jólét, Társas együttélések és együttműködések) sikerült azonosítanunk. E főbb témák mindegyikét további altémákra bontottuk, a tanulmányokat pedig tovább vizsgáltuk az első szerző intézményi affiliációja, a folyóirat szerkesztőinek intézményi affiliációja és a kiadó geográfiai elhelyezkedése szerint. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a beazonosított témalefedések és -preferenciák a szociológiai tudás egy olyan nyugati részhalmazának jellegzetességei, melyet főként angolszász kutatási környezetbe beágyazódott ágensek termeltek.
Lewis, Justin: Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination (2014); Duration: 42 min. Media Educatio... more Lewis, Justin: Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination (2014); Duration: 42 min. Media Education Foundation, ISBN 1-932869-89-1
KOME, an international Open Access journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Assoc... more KOME, an international Open Access journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association is soliciting submissions for its 2015 issues. The journal aims to create a platform for an innovative interdisciplinary discourse in the field of communication and media studies, with a focal point on pure communication inquiry.
KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. Therefore theoretical researches and discussions that helps to understand better, or reconceptualize the understanding of communication are its centre of interests; being either an useful supplement to, or a reasonable alternative of current communication theories. Scholarly perspectives with the aim of creating an intellectual plus in the metatheory of communication, policies or research methods are especially welcomed, as well as linguistic or etymological analyses. KOME is also committed to the ideas of trans-and interdisciplinarity and prefer topics which are relevant for more than one special discipline of social sciences.
All submission undergo double blind peer review. Average turnaround time is 6 weeks. No APC's, page charges, submission charges; we do not charge authors for publishing their work and do not solicit or accept payment for contributions.
KOME is published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association. H-1037 Budapest, Bokor utca 1-3-5. PRP: Özséb Horányi, Member of Presidency. Issn 2063-7330
Issues of the truth potential of religions and its alleged incompatibility with scientific object... more Issues of the truth potential of religions and its alleged incompatibility with scientific objectivity are among the questions that cannot be bypassed in discourses aiming to an integral understanding of society. In this paper, we will examine and compare two specific approaches that share the intention of taking into consideration religious truths when describing and criticising both modern societies and methods permitting their scientific examination within the academic field. As perennialism focuses on common metaphysical truth shared by all religions, and post-secularism deals with a possible form of cooperation between secular and religious morality, it is expected to find that their offered solutions to social crisis phenomena will be essentially different. However, the results show that basically both see the solution as a reorganizational task.
Today, the expression "media" firmly retains a broad language function both in professional and p... more Today, the expression "media" firmly retains a broad language function both in professional and public discourse, the essence of which is a signification of the auditory, visual, audiovisual and digital-electronic "press", including both the tools and agents. The term seems scientific from academic viewpoint and precise in public discourse. However, analogies drawn from some of its connotations, which can serve as a foundation to signify various media organisations, are adequate only for some segments of the semantic field of the term and for the roles of various entities described as “media” in the context of mass communication studies. In this paper we shall make an attempt to clarify whether the general name "media" and the more specific "medium" adequately marks the complex institutional system and its individual members to which it is applied in mass communication studies. To this end, after outlining the semantic scope of the term, we will try to identify differences postulated essential in the structure and operation of the constituents of the institutional structure it marks. These differences, viewed through specific types and cases, can either corroborate its use or can necessitate a refinement or rejection of its application.
Communication theology is a relatively new field of thought at the meeting point of two disciplin... more Communication theology is a relatively new field of thought at the meeting point of two disciplines, a result of an attempt to approach communication from a theological perspective. Showing the characteristics of basic researches when describing phenomena and grasping concepts which usually belongs to the field of communication studies, it vindicates the essentially theological caracter of communication. However, the established discourse is one-sided: Within its framework, communication is integration-focused in a specific way, as integration through acts of the Divine Persons or through human acts in correspondence with ontological and revealed truths. In the meantime, little light was shed both on the separative aspect of this integration and on the explication of other, negative integration processes, described in the Bible as a type of communication. In this paper, we will examine these issues postulated as weaknesses in communication theology, and trying to argue for the following propositions: First, the lack of setting up a line of demarcation between positive and negative communication in an ontological sense poses a serious problem in a proper theological understanding of communication, and second, it is necessary to differentiate between communities created through these processes.
Today, researches conducted within the discipline of sociology seems to have a relatively analogo... more Today, researches conducted within the discipline of sociology seems to have a relatively analogous vison on the quality of being of human nature and collective existence and, as a consequence, on social reality. In this paper, we will try to show that the concept of social reality is far from being universally valid as a generalization of human coexistences at the macro level, and that the understanding of the object of sociology require adressing the totality of the modes of human symbioses, many of them posessing collective qualities currently outside the scope of social sciences. The proposed solution is the reconstruction of the disciplinary characteristics of sociology in terms of an imaginative narrative, where theological explications of society belongs to the same narrative category as mainstream frame of analyses bound by a modernist ontology and epistemology.
KOME - An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2021
This data article describes a dataset showing the five-year performance of 471 researchers from 1... more This data article describes a dataset showing the five-year performance of 471 researchers from 14 Hungarian research institutions, with a total of 3219 observations. Each observation represent items produced between the 1st January 2014 and the 31th December 2018 by a researcher employed in the sampled research institutions from one of six research output types. Due to a prestige and independence-controlled categorization of research output, and the scarcity of easily accessible, well-structured data curated for research performance evaluation, this dataset can play an important role in new research evaluation policies at Hungarian research institutions aiming to enhance global competitiveness by fostering scientific excellence and innovation.
In the process of building local communities with shared cultural values, museums, libraries and ... more In the process of building local communities with shared cultural values, museums, libraries and community centres are key agents in civil society. When these institutions project specific notions and ideal types of identity and citizenship, they have the potential to produce changes in people's behaviour. It is only natural that political bodies are interested in these processes. On 16 September 2016, the Ministry of Human Capacities of the Hungarian Government launched an EU-funded project with the primary aim of strengthening social cohesion within the region. As a part of this project, we surveyed 59 professionals working in Hungarian museums, libraries and community centres, using the Delphi method, to gain insights about their capacities, needs, and visions. This article presents the results of the first round of analysis. Respondents' answers were analysed using NVivo qualitative data analysis software, which resulted in a thematic map showing the main problems professionals in these sectors are struggling with, and highlighting the kinds of visions they had for their institutions' future. The study clearly shows that the cultural sector is plagued by financial problems, and that there is a strong need for reform when it comes to the professional training of workers in these fields. Regarding the future, visions are centred around cultural institutions increasingly becoming community spaces, thinktanks, and ideas workshops that consciously guide community formation.
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2020
The 2016 migrant quota referendum and the preceding anti-migrant and anti-EU campaign in Hungary ... more The 2016 migrant quota referendum and the preceding anti-migrant and anti-EU campaign in Hungary led to a milestone in manipulating public fear of societal change by new East-Central European populism. This article maps and analyzes sentiments toward the referendum in Hungarian-language online media, using software-supported sentiment analysis of mentions of the quota referendum published online between 1 September and 31 October 2016. Results show a preponderance of negative sentiments over positive ones in both pro-government and independent media and the dominance of independent media in the coverage of the event. Coverage of the referendum received more weight in pro-government media compared to their lesser online presence, but this was fueled by astroturfed online discussion communities and content disseminated from at least one Russian state propaganda source.
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 2019
At the end of 2018, a pro-government media outlet in Hungary started
encouraging university stude... more At the end of 2018, a pro-government media outlet in Hungary started encouraging university students to report if they encounter liberal political activism in the classroom. Given the measures that the Hungarian government took against universities and liberal academic freedoms only a month before – like stop financing gender studies programmes and forcing Central European University (CEU) to relocate most of their future activities to Vienna – there is a widely supported belief in Hungarian academia that this is a part of a larger government campaign against academic freedom and the ethos of higher education in general. This commentary points out that to be able to distinguish said reports from made-out propaganda stories, it is necessary to leave their sources of information identifiable.
This letter contains suggestions for editors and software providers to help avoid affiliation bia... more This letter contains suggestions for editors and software providers to help avoid affiliation bias in the initial and concluding stages of the peer review process. Submission management systems have a responsibility to ensure protection against affiliation bias. This can be achieved by automatically withholding the author’s identity and affiliation information from all editors, including the Editor-in-Chief, until a decision about publication has been made. Journals relying on email-based submis-sions are in a more difficult situation. Not having external support in confirming the submitting author’s identity, this dilemma can be resolved through the implementation of strict instructions and guidelines concerning manuscript submission and handling. In this case the “human factor” cannot be fully eliminated, while automated processes can only be changed intentionally and with a certain delay. Therefore, with the suggested steps, submission management systems could become a strong guard against unconscious bias while also making conscious bias more difficult to impact the peer review process.
In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent
publications in the soc... more In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization, Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence, and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment.
In this study, we are looking for an answer to the question of how the relation of media and musl... more In this study, we are looking for an answer to the question of how the relation of media and muslims is represented in contemporary scientific results, produced mostly in a western research environment and, furthermore, of what similarities and differences can be shown between the circumstances characterizing the emergence of these results. As a result of IS’s activities in the Middle East, of the current civil war in Syria and of other causes, Europe is increasingly affected by the phenomenon of muslim immigration. This, as well as the problematics of national majority - Muslim minority interactions make the goal of conducting a meta-analysis of recently published results reasonable, focusing on issues of thematization, geographical distribution, analyzed samples and sample sizes as well as on grants obtained by the authors for a specific research. In the following, we realize our research objectives through conducting a systematic analysis on a section (N=33) of a larger (N=160) sample of peer-reviewed articles, and by a thematic analysis of the same section focusing on the role and influence of various media. We found that within the sample, images of Muslims in the media can be categorized in three main types: An entity using violence at the individual or state level, a victim of violence, and an outsider culturally or behaviorally in defiance of the West.
Small grant proposal for the period between August 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 of the Kelemen Mik... more Small grant proposal for the period between August 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 of the Kelemen Mikes Program; for collecting the legacy of the Hungarian diaspora from documents of libraries and archives, and for the historical study of these communities.
In the literature of sociology of religion, there is a considerable scarcity of recent thematic m... more In the literature of sociology of religion, there is a considerable scarcity of recent thematic meta-analyses. In this paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of such analyses to study thematic and spatial patterns of Christianity-focused results presented in high-impact journals. First, we created a new sampling and data cleaning protocol for collecting and selecting data from EBSCO and journal websites. Categorization was inductive and based on Grounded Theory. During the process, we identified eleven major themes in Christianity-focused research; each of these further divided into subtopics. Than all selected articles were further investigated in terms of first author affiliation, journal editor affiliation and journal publisher’s geographic location. Results shows that the analysis we have performed concerning 160 articles published in „A”-category international journals provided not only a structured overview of current themes in Christianity-focused research within the field, but also identified a major anglo-saxon research environment bias valid through both religion-specific and general studies.
A tanulmány első felében a tudományos cikkek lektorálásának intézményét igyekszünk egy-részt elmé... more A tanulmány első felében a tudományos cikkek lektorálásának intézményét igyekszünk egy-részt elméleti (logikai), másrészt gyakorlati szempontból az ész ítélőszéke elé állítni, nem feled-kezve meg a történeti perspektíváról sem. A lektorálást, mint a tudományos legitimáció intéz-ményét annak tágabb, akadémiai kontextusában értelmezzük, ezáltal kapcsolódva általában a tudományos és képzési bírálatokkal összefüggésben tárgyalható részben ismeretelméleti, rész-ben etikai kérdésekhez.
In this short study I will outline the philological, archeological and anthropological references... more In this short study I will outline the philological, archeological and anthropological references of the Egami-Ledyard-Hong model. Furthermore, I will investigate possible parallels between nation-building according to the above mentioned mythological approach and those practices according to which Anderson’s imagined communities are constructed. My results show that the Egami-Ledyard-Hong model is capable to describe some organizig principles of imagined political community in postwar Japan.
A tanulmányban a tanár-diák együttműködés szempontjából
elemezzük a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerekb... more A tanulmányban a tanár-diák együttműködés szempontjából elemezzük a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerekben (Learning Management System, LMS) és specifikusan a CooSpace-ben rejlő lehetőségeket. Az elemzés során megvizsgáljuk a Web 2.0-ás tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek kialakulásának technológiai és nem-technológiai hátterét, hogy azonosítsuk azokat a célkitűzéseket és mögöttes elképzeléseket, amelyek megvalósulásának ezek a rendszerek tekinthetőek. Célul tűztük ki továbbá olyan kérdések megfogalmazását, melyek megválaszolása segítheti a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek funkcióinak kielégítő pontosságú konceptualizálását a kommunikációtudományok területén. Ehhez szükséges volt megvizsgálni azokat a kompetenciákat, melyek megléte mind oktatói, mint pedig hallgatói részről elengedhetetlen feltétele ezen rendszerek standard és perszonalizált változatainak használatához. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy ezek a kompetenciák szorosan kapcsolódnak az autonómia személyi és közösségi fogalmához, és egyúttal ezen rendszerek ideális továbbfejlesztési irányát is nagymértékben meghatározzák.
A tanulmányban az újabb vallásszociológiai publikációkban bemutatott főbb témákat és eredményeket... more A tanulmányban az újabb vallásszociológiai publikációkban bemutatott főbb témákat és eredményeket mérjük fel. Röviden érintve a megjelent szakirodalomban lefedett fontosabb témák azonosításának gyakorlati hasznát a publikálás tervezése során; az írást azoknak a vallásszociológiai szakcikkeknek a tematikus elemzésével folytatjuk, amelyekben a kutatás nem egy konkrét vallásra vagy egy konkrét vallás híveire irányult. A specifikálatlanság e kritériumának való megfelelést 173, a MTA Szociológiai Bizottságának folyóiratlistáján szereplő vezető nemzetközi folyóirat 2010 és 2013 közti évfolyamaiból gyűjtött szakcikken vizsgáltuk, amiből végül 66-ot kódoltunk és osztályoztunk a megalapozott elmélettel konzisztens induktív kategorizálással. A folyamat során 6 fő témát (Szekularizáció, Gazdaság, Szexualitás, Politika, Egyéni megelégedettség és jólét, Társas együttélések és együttműködések) sikerült azonosítanunk. E főbb témák mindegyikét további altémákra bontottuk, a tanulmányokat pedig tovább vizsgáltuk az első szerző intézményi affiliációja, a folyóirat szerkesztőinek intézményi affiliációja és a kiadó geográfiai elhelyezkedése szerint. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a beazonosított témalefedések és -preferenciák a szociológiai tudás egy olyan nyugati részhalmazának jellegzetességei, melyet főként angolszász kutatási környezetbe beágyazódott ágensek termeltek.
Lewis, Justin: Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination (2014); Duration: 42 min. Media Educatio... more Lewis, Justin: Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination (2014); Duration: 42 min. Media Education Foundation, ISBN 1-932869-89-1
KOME, an international Open Access journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Assoc... more KOME, an international Open Access journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association is soliciting submissions for its 2015 issues. The journal aims to create a platform for an innovative interdisciplinary discourse in the field of communication and media studies, with a focal point on pure communication inquiry.
KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. Therefore theoretical researches and discussions that helps to understand better, or reconceptualize the understanding of communication are its centre of interests; being either an useful supplement to, or a reasonable alternative of current communication theories. Scholarly perspectives with the aim of creating an intellectual plus in the metatheory of communication, policies or research methods are especially welcomed, as well as linguistic or etymological analyses. KOME is also committed to the ideas of trans-and interdisciplinarity and prefer topics which are relevant for more than one special discipline of social sciences.
All submission undergo double blind peer review. Average turnaround time is 6 weeks. No APC's, page charges, submission charges; we do not charge authors for publishing their work and do not solicit or accept payment for contributions.
KOME is published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association. H-1037 Budapest, Bokor utca 1-3-5. PRP: Özséb Horányi, Member of Presidency. Issn 2063-7330
Issues of the truth potential of religions and its alleged incompatibility with scientific object... more Issues of the truth potential of religions and its alleged incompatibility with scientific objectivity are among the questions that cannot be bypassed in discourses aiming to an integral understanding of society. In this paper, we will examine and compare two specific approaches that share the intention of taking into consideration religious truths when describing and criticising both modern societies and methods permitting their scientific examination within the academic field. As perennialism focuses on common metaphysical truth shared by all religions, and post-secularism deals with a possible form of cooperation between secular and religious morality, it is expected to find that their offered solutions to social crisis phenomena will be essentially different. However, the results show that basically both see the solution as a reorganizational task.
Today, the expression "media" firmly retains a broad language function both in professional and p... more Today, the expression "media" firmly retains a broad language function both in professional and public discourse, the essence of which is a signification of the auditory, visual, audiovisual and digital-electronic "press", including both the tools and agents. The term seems scientific from academic viewpoint and precise in public discourse. However, analogies drawn from some of its connotations, which can serve as a foundation to signify various media organisations, are adequate only for some segments of the semantic field of the term and for the roles of various entities described as “media” in the context of mass communication studies. In this paper we shall make an attempt to clarify whether the general name "media" and the more specific "medium" adequately marks the complex institutional system and its individual members to which it is applied in mass communication studies. To this end, after outlining the semantic scope of the term, we will try to identify differences postulated essential in the structure and operation of the constituents of the institutional structure it marks. These differences, viewed through specific types and cases, can either corroborate its use or can necessitate a refinement or rejection of its application.
Communication theology is a relatively new field of thought at the meeting point of two disciplin... more Communication theology is a relatively new field of thought at the meeting point of two disciplines, a result of an attempt to approach communication from a theological perspective. Showing the characteristics of basic researches when describing phenomena and grasping concepts which usually belongs to the field of communication studies, it vindicates the essentially theological caracter of communication. However, the established discourse is one-sided: Within its framework, communication is integration-focused in a specific way, as integration through acts of the Divine Persons or through human acts in correspondence with ontological and revealed truths. In the meantime, little light was shed both on the separative aspect of this integration and on the explication of other, negative integration processes, described in the Bible as a type of communication. In this paper, we will examine these issues postulated as weaknesses in communication theology, and trying to argue for the following propositions: First, the lack of setting up a line of demarcation between positive and negative communication in an ontological sense poses a serious problem in a proper theological understanding of communication, and second, it is necessary to differentiate between communities created through these processes.
Today, researches conducted within the discipline of sociology seems to have a relatively analogo... more Today, researches conducted within the discipline of sociology seems to have a relatively analogous vison on the quality of being of human nature and collective existence and, as a consequence, on social reality. In this paper, we will try to show that the concept of social reality is far from being universally valid as a generalization of human coexistences at the macro level, and that the understanding of the object of sociology require adressing the totality of the modes of human symbioses, many of them posessing collective qualities currently outside the scope of social sciences. The proposed solution is the reconstruction of the disciplinary characteristics of sociology in terms of an imaginative narrative, where theological explications of society belongs to the same narrative category as mainstream frame of analyses bound by a modernist ontology and epistemology.
2019 Call for Articles in Communication, Media and Journalism Studies, 2019
KOME, an Europe-based international Open Access journal is currently accepting submissions for it... more KOME, an Europe-based international Open Access journal is currently accepting submissions for its 2019 and 2020 issues. We would love to hear from scholars, academics or professionals in Europe and overseas! If you or your colleagues have, or will have a manuscript to submit, please do not hesitate to send it to us through kome@komejournal.com
KOME - An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2018
An international author pool is desirable for Eastern European Communication journals if they int... more An international author pool is desirable for Eastern European Communication journals if they intend to crawl up the ranks in the main scientific indices. Current data suggest that EE journals that are able to attract western, especially U.S., authors tend to rank better in SCOPUS, while those whose author base is mainly from their home country or region tend to rank lower. Accomplishing SCOPUS indexation, however, is possible without getting much attention from western or other core country authors, and if Clarivate Analytics will launch a regional coverage expansion program in the future, there can be a chance for such journals to get into SSCI as well. It is debatable whether this creates a favorable environment for channeling regional knowledge into the global science ecosystem, or whether this softens inequalities in science production between a peripheral region and the center. In general, knowledgescapes of Eastern European and other peripheral countries have been, and will continue to be, overlooked unless channelled through key media wherein the core scienctific communities actually engage. There is, arguably, little to no prestige or benefit to participate in this channeling for a journal already having a dominant U.S. author base, but there is substantial benefit for a journal with a heavy Eastern European author base: The former can remain regional, not mixing their already high-prestige region authors with authors from lower prestige regions, while for the latter, targeted internationalization is a must, and is most effective when they can convince authors affiliated with institutions from high scientific output regions to submit and publish.
Media Studies 2. Methods for pure communication research. Research projects of this kind rise que... more Media Studies 2. Methods for pure communication research. Research projects of this kind rise questions in connection with: 2.1. The presuppositions of theoretic communication inquiries 2.2. The presuppositions of empirical communication research 2.3. The application of extraneous methods to communication inquiries 2.4. The adaptation of extraneous methods to communication inquiries 2.5. The genuine properties of the special methods of communication inquiry, if there are any 2.6. The analysis of existing methods in the scope of communication research 2.7. Other basal inquiries in connection with the methods of communication research Editorial 4 3. Axioms, lemmas and conjectures for pure communication inquiries. 4. The relational properties of pure communication inquiries. Research projects of this kind rise questions in conncetion with: 4.1. The reflexive relation in the case of communication theories, i.e., communication inquiry as communication. 4.2. The symmetric relations in the case of communication theories, for example, communication as information processing and information processing as communication 4.3. The assimetric relations in the case if communication theories, such as inclusion 4.4. The relations between communication inquiries and other disciplines such as theology,
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evaluation, this dataset can play an important role in new research evaluation policies at Hungarian research institutions aiming to enhance global competitiveness by fostering scientific excellence and innovation.
encouraging university students to report if they encounter liberal political activism in the classroom. Given the measures that the Hungarian government took against universities and liberal academic freedoms only a month before – like stop financing gender studies programmes and forcing Central European University (CEU) to relocate most of their future activities to Vienna – there is a widely supported belief in Hungarian academia that this is a part of a larger government campaign against academic freedom and the ethos of higher education in general. This commentary points out that to be able to distinguish said reports from made-out propaganda stories, it is necessary to leave their sources of information identifiable.
publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of
identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of
publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those
journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not
focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the
adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading
international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of
Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles
were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded
theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization,
Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence,
and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into
subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation
of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of
journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are
characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by
agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment.
of muslim immigration. This, as well as the problematics of national majority - Muslim minority interactions make the goal of conducting a meta-analysis of recently published results reasonable, focusing on issues of thematization, geographical distribution, analyzed samples and sample sizes as well as on grants obtained by the authors for a specific research. In the following, we realize our research objectives through conducting a systematic analysis on a section (N=33) of a larger (N=160) sample of peer-reviewed articles, and by a thematic analysis of the same section focusing on the role and influence of various media. We found that within the sample, images of Muslims in the media can be categorized in three main types: An entity using violence at the individual or state level, a victim of violence, and an outsider culturally or behaviorally in defiance of the West.
major themes in Christianity-focused research; each of these further divided into subtopics. Than all selected articles were further investigated in terms of first author affiliation, journal editor affiliation and journal publisher’s geographic location. Results shows that the analysis we have performed concerning 160 articles published in „A”-category international journals provided not only a structured overview of current themes in Christianity-focused research within the field, but also identified a major anglo-saxon research environment bias valid through both religion-specific and general studies.
elemezzük a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerekben (Learning
Management System, LMS) és specifikusan a CooSpace-ben rejlő lehetőségeket. Az elemzés során megvizsgáljuk a Web 2.0-ás tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek kialakulásának technológiai és nem-technológiai hátterét, hogy azonosítsuk azokat a célkitűzéseket és mögöttes elképzeléseket, amelyek megvalósulásának ezek a rendszerek tekinthetőek. Célul tűztük ki továbbá olyan kérdések megfogalmazását, melyek megválaszolása segítheti a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek funkcióinak kielégítő pontosságú konceptualizálását a kommunikációtudományok területén. Ehhez szükséges volt megvizsgálni azokat a kompetenciákat, melyek megléte
mind oktatói, mint pedig hallgatói részről elengedhetetlen feltétele ezen rendszerek standard és perszonalizált változatainak használatához. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy ezek a kompetenciák szorosan kapcsolódnak az autonómia személyi és közösségi fogalmához, és egyúttal ezen rendszerek ideális továbbfejlesztési irányát is nagymértékben meghatározzák.
kategorizálással. A folyamat során 6 fő témát (Szekularizáció, Gazdaság, Szexualitás, Politika, Egyéni megelégedettség és jólét, Társas együttélések és együttműködések) sikerült azonosítanunk. E főbb témák mindegyikét további altémákra bontottuk, a tanulmányokat pedig tovább vizsgáltuk az első szerző intézményi affiliációja, a folyóirat szerkesztőinek intézményi affiliációja és a kiadó geográfiai elhelyezkedése szerint. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a beazonosított témalefedések és -preferenciák a szociológiai tudás egy olyan nyugati részhalmazának jellegzetességei, melyet főként angolszász kutatási környezetbe beágyazódott ágensek termeltek.
KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. Therefore theoretical researches and discussions that helps to understand better, or reconceptualize the understanding of communication are its centre of interests; being either an useful supplement to, or a reasonable alternative of current communication theories. Scholarly perspectives with the aim of creating an intellectual plus in the metatheory of communication, policies or research methods are especially welcomed, as well as linguistic or etymological analyses. KOME is also committed to the ideas of trans-and interdisciplinarity and prefer topics which are relevant for more than one special discipline of social sciences.
Janos Toth,
co-EIC, jatoth@komejournal.com
Visit our website at http://www.komejournal.com
Submissions are to be sent to the
Editorial Office
kome@komejournal.com
All submission undergo double blind peer review. Average turnaround time is 6 weeks. No APC's, page charges, submission charges; we do not charge authors for publishing their work and do not solicit or accept payment for contributions.
KOME is published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association. H-1037 Budapest, Bokor utca 1-3-5. PRP: Özséb Horányi, Member of Presidency. Issn 2063-7330
of society belongs to the same narrative category as mainstream frame of analyses bound by a modernist ontology and epistemology.
evaluation, this dataset can play an important role in new research evaluation policies at Hungarian research institutions aiming to enhance global competitiveness by fostering scientific excellence and innovation.
encouraging university students to report if they encounter liberal political activism in the classroom. Given the measures that the Hungarian government took against universities and liberal academic freedoms only a month before – like stop financing gender studies programmes and forcing Central European University (CEU) to relocate most of their future activities to Vienna – there is a widely supported belief in Hungarian academia that this is a part of a larger government campaign against academic freedom and the ethos of higher education in general. This commentary points out that to be able to distinguish said reports from made-out propaganda stories, it is necessary to leave their sources of information identifiable.
publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of
identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of
publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those
journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not
focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the
adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading
international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of
Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles
were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded
theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization,
Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence,
and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into
subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation
of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of
journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are
characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by
agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment.
of muslim immigration. This, as well as the problematics of national majority - Muslim minority interactions make the goal of conducting a meta-analysis of recently published results reasonable, focusing on issues of thematization, geographical distribution, analyzed samples and sample sizes as well as on grants obtained by the authors for a specific research. In the following, we realize our research objectives through conducting a systematic analysis on a section (N=33) of a larger (N=160) sample of peer-reviewed articles, and by a thematic analysis of the same section focusing on the role and influence of various media. We found that within the sample, images of Muslims in the media can be categorized in three main types: An entity using violence at the individual or state level, a victim of violence, and an outsider culturally or behaviorally in defiance of the West.
major themes in Christianity-focused research; each of these further divided into subtopics. Than all selected articles were further investigated in terms of first author affiliation, journal editor affiliation and journal publisher’s geographic location. Results shows that the analysis we have performed concerning 160 articles published in „A”-category international journals provided not only a structured overview of current themes in Christianity-focused research within the field, but also identified a major anglo-saxon research environment bias valid through both religion-specific and general studies.
elemezzük a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerekben (Learning
Management System, LMS) és specifikusan a CooSpace-ben rejlő lehetőségeket. Az elemzés során megvizsgáljuk a Web 2.0-ás tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek kialakulásának technológiai és nem-technológiai hátterét, hogy azonosítsuk azokat a célkitűzéseket és mögöttes elképzeléseket, amelyek megvalósulásának ezek a rendszerek tekinthetőek. Célul tűztük ki továbbá olyan kérdések megfogalmazását, melyek megválaszolása segítheti a tanulásmenedzselő rendszerek funkcióinak kielégítő pontosságú konceptualizálását a kommunikációtudományok területén. Ehhez szükséges volt megvizsgálni azokat a kompetenciákat, melyek megléte
mind oktatói, mint pedig hallgatói részről elengedhetetlen feltétele ezen rendszerek standard és perszonalizált változatainak használatához. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy ezek a kompetenciák szorosan kapcsolódnak az autonómia személyi és közösségi fogalmához, és egyúttal ezen rendszerek ideális továbbfejlesztési irányát is nagymértékben meghatározzák.
kategorizálással. A folyamat során 6 fő témát (Szekularizáció, Gazdaság, Szexualitás, Politika, Egyéni megelégedettség és jólét, Társas együttélések és együttműködések) sikerült azonosítanunk. E főbb témák mindegyikét további altémákra bontottuk, a tanulmányokat pedig tovább vizsgáltuk az első szerző intézményi affiliációja, a folyóirat szerkesztőinek intézményi affiliációja és a kiadó geográfiai elhelyezkedése szerint. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a beazonosított témalefedések és -preferenciák a szociológiai tudás egy olyan nyugati részhalmazának jellegzetességei, melyet főként angolszász kutatási környezetbe beágyazódott ágensek termeltek.
KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. Therefore theoretical researches and discussions that helps to understand better, or reconceptualize the understanding of communication are its centre of interests; being either an useful supplement to, or a reasonable alternative of current communication theories. Scholarly perspectives with the aim of creating an intellectual plus in the metatheory of communication, policies or research methods are especially welcomed, as well as linguistic or etymological analyses. KOME is also committed to the ideas of trans-and interdisciplinarity and prefer topics which are relevant for more than one special discipline of social sciences.
Janos Toth,
co-EIC, jatoth@komejournal.com
Visit our website at http://www.komejournal.com
Submissions are to be sent to the
Editorial Office
kome@komejournal.com
All submission undergo double blind peer review. Average turnaround time is 6 weeks. No APC's, page charges, submission charges; we do not charge authors for publishing their work and do not solicit or accept payment for contributions.
KOME is published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association. H-1037 Budapest, Bokor utca 1-3-5. PRP: Özséb Horányi, Member of Presidency. Issn 2063-7330
of society belongs to the same narrative category as mainstream frame of analyses bound by a modernist ontology and epistemology.