Time and Space in the Content of Estonian Daily Newspapers in the 20th Century

Lõhmus, Maarja; Kõuts, Ragne; Kõnno, Andres; Aljas, Agnes

doi:10.3176/tr.2011.1.03

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“…Philosophically, we dare to claim that the more general function of journalistic outlets is to model the future; the future, in a constant state of being created, is associated with and arises through strong interpretation, through self-regulation processes, where a movement forward takes place (compare Luhmann). The results from our previous study comparing the dynamics of the presence in the foreground of the past and future reinforce these assumptions (Lõhmus et al 2011). We cannot affi rm our claims with empirical data, but we assume this possibility from the general picture based on a complex analysis of time-dimensional indicators.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…This function of free media is visibly disturbed by totalitarian regimes. In our case, this applies to the Estonian Rahva Hääl and the Russian Pravda (until the 1990s), (see also Kõnno et al 2012;Lõhmus et al 2011).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…4) Through examining the topics, we observed that one of the major functions of the publications was to model the future (Lõhmus et al 2011); in this sense, we see that the themes and topics became instruments for future-directed questions and tendencies. Renewal and constantly changing dynamics indicated that the trend through seemingly the same topics was to continually construct new directions in changing circumstances.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Transformation of Newspapers’ Thematic Structure in the 20th Century

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This article focuses on the thematic structure and contextualisation of the future in the main daily newspapers of the three neighbouring countries of Finland, Estonia and Russia throughout the 20th century. We mapped the content of 2079 Finnish, 2242 Estonian and 1723 Russian daily newspaper articles. The Finnish Helsingin Sanomat concentrated on the issue of "state and legislation"; the second most common topic in the Finnish sample was economics, at about 20 percent of the articles, with the exception of the 1910s and 1930s. In Estonia we did not fi nd any dominant topic during the 20th century; there were many diff erent topics related to the agenda. Politics and governance and related issues were particularly dominant during the periods of independence. Economy-related issues were more or less dominant during the period of Soviet occupation. The topics of economics and human relations and values were dominant in the Russian Pravda throughout the 20th century. The analysis reveals that Finnish media were more diverse than Estonian and Russian, which displayed a lack of diversity especially during the Communist period.

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