Republika Srpska in the information space of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

For citation: Bogdanovich A. Republika Srpska in the information space of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mediascope. 2023.2. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2816

© Arina A. Bogdanovich

PhD student at the Chair of Foreign Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), bogdanovich-arina@mail.ru

Abstract

The emergence of the Republika Srpska is associated with the collapse of Yugoslavia at the end of the 20th century. The Dayton Agreements established the order of relations within the confederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conflict, however, was completed only temporarily. In this article, the author examines the question of the place of the Republika Srpska in the information space of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the context of the current political crisis in BiH. The author attempts to answer the question of what significance the Republika Srpska has for both states, and in what contexts it is mentioned in the national media. The study was carried out in two stages. At the first stage, a media-geographical approach was used, including the use of big data. At the second stage of the study, with the help of content analysis, the hypotheses derived at the first stage were tested. For this, 181 articles on the topic "Republic of Srpska" were selected in two editions – «Politika» and «Dnevni Avaz». The results of the study showed that the discourse "Republic of Srpska" in the information space of BiH is part of the conflict between the Serb and Bosnian population.

Key words: Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, media geography, mental landscape, Balkan Peninsula

Notes

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Turković uputilia notu ambasadama Rusije, Kine i Srbije zbog proslave Dana Srpske (2022) Politika. 10 January. (In Serbian). Available at: https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/496653/Turkovic-uputilia-notu-ambasadama-Rusije-Kine-i-Srbije-zbog-proslave-Dana-Srpske

U Republici Srpskoj počinje isplata povećanih januarskih penzija (2022) Dnevni Avaz. 09 February. (In Bosnian). Available at: https://avaz.ba/vijesti/bih/715959/u-republici-srpskoj-pocinje-isplata-povecanih-januarskih-penzija

U RS cijena skočila za 200 KM: U FBiH neće poskupjeti registracija vozila!? (2022) Dnevni Avaz. 13 June. (In Bosnian). Available at: https://avaz.ba/vijesti/bih/750174/u-rs-cijena-skocila-za-200-km-u-fbih-nece-poskupjeti-registracija-vozila

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Zašto Srbi slave zločin(c)e (2022) Dnevni Avaz. 09 January. (In Bosnian). Available at: https://avaz.ba/vijesti/bih/708877/zasto-srbi-slave-zlocin-c-e

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