Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies Forgan Smith Tower
University of Queensland Brisbane Qld 4072, Australia e-mail: z.volcic@uq.edu.au phone: +61 7 3346 7409 fax: +61 7 3365 7184
Zala Volčič is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She teaches Mass Com-munication Theory, ComCom-munication for Social Change, and International Communication. She is interested in the cultural consequences of nationali-sm, capitalinationali-sm, and globalization, with a particular emphasis on international communication, media and cultural identities. Her research seeks to connect media with work in journalism, media studies, cultural geography and nati-onalism studies. She has published numerous books and articles, including
‘The notion of »The West« in the Serbian National Imaginary’ in European Jo-urnal of Cultural Studies (8: 2); ‘Yugo-nostalgia: Cultural Memory and Media in the former Yugoslavia’ in Critical Studies of Mass Communication (2007:
24: 1) and ‘Former Yugoslavia on the World Wide Web: Commercialization and Branding of Nation-states’ in the International Communication Journal, Gazette (2008, 70:5).
Zala Volčič je podoktorska raziskovalka na Centru za kritične in kulturne študi-je Univerze Queensland v Avstraliji. Poučuštudi-je predmete kot Teorija množične-ga komuniciranja, Komuniciranje za družbeno spremembo in Mednarodno komuniciranje. Raziskovalno se ukvarja s posledicami nacionalizma, kapitaliz-ma in globalizacije, s poudarkom na mednarodnem komuniciranju, mediji in kulturno identiteto. V študijah povezuje raziskovanje medijev z novinarskimi in medijskimi študijami, kulturno geografijo in nacionalističnimi študijami.
Objavila je številne knjige in članke, vključno z »The notion of ‘The West’ in the Serbian National Imaginary«, v European Journal of Cultural Studies (8:
2), »Yugo-nostalgia: Cultural Memory and Media in the former Yugoslavia«, v Critical Studies of Mass Communication (2007: 24: 1) in »Former Yugoslavia on the World Wide Web: Commercialization and Branding of Nation-states«, v International Communication Journal, Gazette (2008, 70: 5).
Danijela Majstorović
Danijela Majstorović je leta 2000 diplomirala iz angleščine. Vse od leta 1996 je poučevala angleščino na različnih ravneh (od začetnih tečajev do univerzitetne ravni) ter kot stalna in občasna prevajalka sodelovala z raz-ličnimi mednarodnimi organizacijami v Bosni (Nadzorna misija Evropske unije, Organizacija združenih narodov, Svetovna banka idr.). Kot podi-plomska študentka je v letih 2001-2003 obiskovala School of Telecommu-nications na Univerzi v Ohiu in magistrirala iz medijskih študijev in do-kumentarne produkcije. Od leta 2001 je bila zaposlena kot asistentka na Oddelku za angleščino Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Banja Luki, kjer je leta 2006 doktorirala s tezo »Discourse Analysis of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina - English Text and Lo-cal Context« (»Analiza diskurza Urada visokega predstavnika mednarodne skupnosti (OHR) v Bosni in Hercegovini – Angleški tekst in lokalni kon-tekst«). Od septembra do decembra 2006 je bila gostujoča raziskovalka na Univerzi v Lancastru.
Režirala in producirala je dva feministična dokumentarna filma: Counter-point for Her/Kontrapunkt zanjo (o žrtvah spolne trgovine) in Dream Job/
Sanjska služba (o bosanskih ženskah v medijih); prav tako je avtorica šte-vilnih člankov, kjer obravnava vprašanja reprezentacije, analizo diskurza, medije in film, ter avtorica monografije z naslovom Discourse, Power and the International Community (2007). Trenutno je zaposlena kot docentka in predstojnica Oddelka za angleščino Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ba-nja Luki, kjer predava angleško lingvistiko/analizo diskurza, komunikacijo in kulturne študije.
Danijela Majstorović received her BA in English language and literatu-re in July 2000. Since 1996, she has taught English at various levels from beginner’s to university and worked as a full and part-time translator/
interpreter for various international organizations in Bosnia such as EC Monitoring Mission, United Nations, World Bank etc. From 2001-2003, she was a graduate student at Ohio University’s School of Telecommunicati-ons majoring in media studies and documentary production.
Since 2001, she has also been working for the Faculty of Philosophy’s En-glish department as a teaching assistant and received her PhD degree in September of 2006 defending a thesis titled »Discourse Analysis of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina -
En-glish Text and Local Context«. From September-December 2006, she was a visiting academic researcher at Lancaster University.
She has directed and produced two feminist documentary films: Counter-point for Her (about victims of sex trafficking) and Dream Job (about Bo-snian women in the media), and has written several articles dealing with issues of representation, discourse analysis, media and film as well as a monograph Discourse, Power and the International Community (2007).
She currently works as an assistant professor and department head of the University of Banja Luka Faculty of Philology’s English department, whe-re she has taught courses in English linguistics/discourse analysis, com-munication and cultural studies.
Primož Krašovec
Primož Krašovec (1979) has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and sociolo-gy of culture and is currently a PhD student of sociolosociolo-gy of everyday life at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana. He works as a resear-cher at Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana. He is the author of several scientific and many journalistic articles on contemporary mass media dis-courses, as well as numerous book and film reviews, political interventions and some theoretical treatises. His main research interests include Marxist theory of ideology, epistemology of historiography, histories of 20th cen-tury revolutions and recent transformations of capitalist mode of produc-tion (especially those concerning work and everyday life).
Primož Krašovec (1979) je diplomirani novinar in sociolog kulture, tre-nutno doktorski študent sociologije vsakdanjega življenja na Fakulteti za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani. Zaposlen je kot raziskovalec na Pedagoškem inštitutu v Ljubljani. Je avtor nekaj znanstvenih in mnogih publicističnih člankov o diskurzih sodobnih množičnih medijev kot tudi številnih knjižnih in filmskih recenzij, političnih intervencij in nekaj teo-retskih razprav. Njegovi glavni raziskovalni interesi so marksistična teorija ideologije, epistemologija zgodovinopisja, zgodovina revolucij 20. stoletja in nedavne spremembe kapitalističnega načina produkcije (predvsem ti-ste, ki zadevajo delo in vsakdanje življenje).
Revija Šolsko polje izhaja s finančno podporo naslednjih inštitucij:
MINISTRSTVO ZA ŠOLSTVO in ŠPORT
JAVNA AGENCIJA ZA KNJIGO REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE
PEDAGOŠKI INŠTITUT, Ljubljana