Anna Sámelová

ABSTRACT: The study provides an overview of the basic characteristics of media-mediated communication in three historical stages – the printing age, the broadcasting age, and the current online media technology age. The rupture (discontinuity) between offline and online media-mediated communication…

Drawing on the concepts of ‘conspiracy of silence’ and of ‘conspiracy of courtesy’ coined and developed by Joseph Ascroft, the author analyses the consequences of social media on development communication. Adopting a method of conceptual analysis of both concepts as…