"The intention was to democratise the sphere of communication." An Interview with Bogdan Osolnik.

Sašo Slaček Brlek; Jernej Amon Prodnik; Bogdan Osolnik

doi:10.31269/triplec.v15i1.859

Sašo Slaček Brlek Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Jernej Amon Prodnik Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Bogdan Osolnik

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v15i1.859

Keywords: Non-Aligned Movement, the MacBride Report, political economy of communication, Tanjug, New World Information and Communication Order, Unesco, Yugoslavia, Resistance press.

Abstract

Interview with Bogdan Osolnik, active member of the Yugoslav liberation front during World War II, member of the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems under the leadership of Sean MacBride (commonly known as the MacBride Commission), former vice-president of International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), one of the pioneers of theoretical and practical research of public opinion in the Yugoslav socialist society and one of the co-founders of the first journalism program in Yugoslavia. Osolnik was an engaged critical researcher of media and communication in the international environment and combined theoretical work with political activity.

Author Biographies

Sašo Slaček Brlek, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Researcher at the Social Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. His main research interests include theories of public opinion and the public sphere, and the critical political economy of communication with a particular focus on researching newswork and newsworkers from the labour process perspective.

Jernej Amon Prodnik, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Assistant Professor at the Department of Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and researcher at the Social Communications Research Centre, which is based at the same institution. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His principal research interests encompass critique of political economy and historical transformations of capitalist societies with an emphasis on media and communication.