Martin Solík – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk Media, marketing, communication Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:01:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://communicationtoday.sk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-ct-32x32.png Martin Solík – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk 32 32 LEGAL MEASURES RELATING TO THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO PERSONALITY PROTECTION https://communicationtoday.sk/legal-measures-relating-to-the-freedom-of-speech-and-the-right-to-personality-protection/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 23:00:46 +0000 https://communicationtoday.sk/?p=4731 ABSTRACT:

The study focuses on the analysis of the constitutional and legal limits of the exercise of freedom of speech. This freedom forms one of the pillars of a democratic and legal state. However, the Constitution of the Slovak Republic and the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms allow for its legitimate limitations. The authors therefore examine the limits of restrictions on freedom of expression under the conditions of Slovak legislation. The role of independence and autonomy of media are also emphasised, and a specific case demonstrates the interaction between the personality protection of a public figure and freedom of expression.

KEY WORDS:

Constitution of the Slovak Republic, Convention, freedom of speech, proportionality, right to personality protection

06_Maslen_Solik_CT-1-2025Download

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34135/communicationtoday.2025.Vol.16.No.1.6

]]> New Legal Regulation of Publications in Slovak Media Environment https://communicationtoday.sk/new-legal-regulation-of-publications-in-slovak-media-environment/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://communicationtoday.sk/?p=4286 ABSTRACT:
The study deals with the legal regulation of publications in the Slovak Republic, noting the position of publishers and web portal operators in the context of the new law ‘on publications’. This law specified publishers and operators as participants in the media market, defined community media, and established modern regulatory elements, including self-regulation, which have brought significant transparency to the ownership and financing of print and web media. In this study, we note the historical outline of the development of the press after 1989, the stabilisation of the situation within the legislative regulation of the press in 2008, while our primary objective is to define the current legal standards of the newly adopted Publications Act. We also reflect on the possible risks and problems that the new law entails, but our main aim is to present the fundamental and innovative changes that have resulted from several years of legislative process in the field of media law.

KEY WORDS:
legislation, legal regulation, media environment, media law, publications, publishers, web portals

01. VISNOVSKY et al. – CT 2-2023Download

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34135/communicationtoday.2023.Vol.14.No.2.1

]]> Paid Subscriptions and Premium Content: Online News Publishers’ Monetisation Strategies https://communicationtoday.sk/paid-subscriptions-and-premiumcontent-online-news-publishers-monetisation-strategies/ Sun, 24 Apr 2022 12:51:41 +0000 https://communicationtoday.sk/?p=3909 ABSTRACT:
Online journalism is characterised by specific features that distinguish it from its predecessors. It is not only interactivity, timeliness and new elements that make it unique. The way in which digital media are funded is also interesting. While in print media it is customary to pay directly for a copy of a newspaper, the situation is different in the online space. News content is usually freely accessible and online advertising in the form of banner ads or PR pieces is present. However, funding the medium can be unprofitable in this model, which is why some publishers have chosen to hide their web content behind a paywall. Recipients must thus pay for news directly again – in the form of subscriptions. The aim of the study is to shed light on the issue of online media financing in order to explore different monetisation strategies and their efficiency in the era of COVID-19.

KEY WORDS:
funding, Internet, monetisation, online journalism, paywall

02. MATHIASOVA et al. – CT 1-2022Download
]]> Global Conflicts and the Macro-regional Modernities. Interview with Marek Hrubec https://communicationtoday.sk/global-conflicts-and-the-macro-regional-modernities-interview-with-marek-hrubec-2/ Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:11:29 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=1486 ABSTRACT:
The interview focuses on Marek Hrubec’s Critical theory of global society and politics. It presents a critique and explanation of social, economic, political, media, cultural issues, and explains normative alternatives. It deals with the crisis of global capitalism and the contemporary situation in the West. It compares it with the recent developments in alternative modernities in the Islamic countries, China and Russia, India and South America, and Africa. It addresses issues of global conflicts and injustice, global poverty, intercultural dialogue, corporate power, revolution and transformation, the United Nations and the requirements of cosmopolitan arrangement, and the personal experience from Central Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

KEY WORDS:
global conflicts, injustice, recognition, macro-regions, modernities, critical theory, intercultural

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]]> Global Conflicts and the Macro-regional Modernities. Interview with Marek Hrubec https://communicationtoday.sk/global-conflicts-and-the-macro-regional-modernities-interview-with-marek-hrubec/ Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:09:12 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=1484 ABSTRACT:
The interview focuses on Marek Hrubec’s Critical theory of global society and politics. It presents a critique and explanation of social, economic, political, media, cultural issues, and explains normative alternatives. It deals with the crisis of global capitalism and the contemporary situation in the West. It compares it with the recent developments in alternative modernities in the Islamic countries, China and Russia, India and South America, and Africa. It addresses issues of global conflicts and injustice, global poverty, intercultural dialogue, corporate power, revolution and transformation, the United Nations and the requirements of cosmopolitan arrangement, and the personal experience from Central Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

KEY WORDS:
global conflicts, injustice, recognition, macro-regions, modernities, critical theory, intercultural

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]]> Sociálne uznanie v globálnom priestore: možnosti a limity mediálnej reflexie https://communicationtoday.sk/socialne-uznanie-v-globalnom-priestore-moznosti-a-limity-medialnej-reflexie/ Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:08:26 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=1345 The study deals with the issues of social recognition in global space, focusing on its media reflection. Even though recognition is one of the key terms discussed by contemporary Philosophy – and by Social Sciences as a whole – it tends to be reflected and formulated mostly on interpersonal or local levels. The authors put special emphasis on the problem of solidarity in the context of recognition, pointing out that solidarity, as a form of recognition, is not associated with any adequate parallels behind the borders of national states – this fact is obvious mostly in transnational economy. Taking into account this basic assumption, the study aims to articulate extraterritorial recognition of the possessors of social rights on international and transnational levels of justice. It is obvious that people living in countries of the ‘Third World’ are not able to express their disagreement through ways and means typical for the Western civilization. Their fights for recognition also represent fighting for water, food, shelter, etc. The authors therefore point out the problem related to thematic agenda of the media, which demonstrates the possibilities and limits of media reflection – they have to select between large amounts of different events and news, and thus pay attention only to a limited number of information, missing out the problems associated with absent solidarity on a global scale. In addition, opportunities and limits of media communication linked to articulation of the global fights for social recognition cannot be omitted, especially in the context of following argumentation of possible scenarios that focus on re-formulation of public interests. The authors claim that national states should use their influence in global and transnational organizations, and media need to trengthen their information function in order to offer relevant information about important events related to the ‘Third World’ countries. However, economic interests of transnational corporations seem to be one of the limits of this process. Even though we are able to witness the dynamic development progress of alternative information sources, their credibility has not been able to match the level of influence of global information networks yet.

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]]> Social Recognition on a Global Scale: Opportunities and Limits of Media Reflection https://communicationtoday.sk/social-recognition-on-a-global-scale-opportunities-and-limits-of-media-reflection/ Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:00:48 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=1343 The study deals with the issues of social recognition in global space, focusing on its media reflection. Even though recognition is one of the key terms discussed by contemporary Philosophy – and by Social Sciences as a whole – it tends to be reflected and formulated mostly on interpersonal or local levels. The authors put special emphasis on the problem of solidarity in the context of recognition, pointing out that solidarity, as a form of recognition, is not associated with any adequate parallels behind the borders of national states – this fact is obvious mostly in transnational economy. Taking into account this basic assumption, the study aims to articulate extraterritorial recognition of the possessors of social rights on international and transnational levels of justice. It is obvious that people living in countries of the ‘Third World’ are not able to express their disagreement through ways and means typical for the Western civilization. Their fights for recognition also represent fighting for water, food, shelter, etc. The authors therefore point out the problem related to thematic agenda of the media, which demonstrates the possibilities and limits of media reflection – they have to select between large amounts of different events and news, and thus pay attention only to a limited number of information, missing out the problems associated with absent solidarity on a global scale. In addition, opportunities and limits of media communication linked to articulation of the global fights for social recognition cannot be omitted, especially in the context of following argumentation of possible scenarios that focus on re-formulation of public interests. The authors claim that national states should use their influence in global and transnational organizations, and media need to trengthen their information function in order to offer relevant information about important events related to the ‘Third World’ countries. However, economic interests of transnational corporations seem to be one of the limits of this process. Even though we are able to witness the dynamic development progress of alternative information sources, their credibility has not been able to match the level of influence of global information networks yet.

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]]> Komunikácia v spoločenskom kontexte – uznanie ako intersubjektívny predpoklad https://communicationtoday.sk/komunikacia-v-spolocenskom-kontexte-uznanie-ako-intersubjektivny-predpoklad-2/ Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:29:52 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=922 A man lives in the world and the development of his personality is dependent on his environment. We are formed by individual cells of the society and the recognition is the way how they accept us, how we perceive ourselves. Our personalities, our identities are influenced by education offered to us by our environment which has been to some extend chosen by us, by educational system and legal environment. The others are significant to us – they influence the way we see the world and it is questionable how our own identities are influenced by us. We live in a world, which is dependent on a dialogue. Our perception of the world is not the only one and therefore we meet various perspectives how to look at different cultures and eventually on their rights, as well. In spite of us admitting individual differences, we accept antidiscrimination measures and laws that only get the bred in danger under protection but in no way do they create conditions for reasons why we should respect the others. In spite of us inspiring and enriching our perspectives, we only seek universal features which can eventually justify whatever of our interventions into cultures which we do not understand at all. A dialogue must be based on the recognition, including recognition of the rights.

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]]> Komunikácia v spoločenskom kontexte – uznanie ako intersubjektívny predpoklad https://communicationtoday.sk/komunikacia-v-spolocenskom-kontexte-uznanie-ako-intersubjektivny-predpoklad/ Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:28:35 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=920 A man lives in the world and the development of his personality is dependent on his environment. We are formed by individual cells of the society and the recognition is the way how they accept us, how we perceive ourselves. Our personalities, our identities are influenced by education offered to us by our environment which has been to some extend chosen by us, by educational system and legal environment. The others are significant to us – they influence the way we see the world and it is questionable how our own identities are influenced by us. We live in a world, which is dependent on a dialogue. Our perception of the world is not the only one and therefore we meet various perspectives how to look at different cultures and eventually on their rights, as well. In spite of us admitting individual differences, we accept antidiscrimination measures and laws that only get the bred in danger under protection but in no way do they create conditions for reasons why we should respect the others. In spite of us inspiring and enriching our perspectives, we only seek universal features which can eventually justify whatever of our interventions into cultures which we do not understand at all. A dialogue must be based on the recognition, including recognition of the rights.

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