"What happened was foremost an assault by interests of the big capital." An interview with Breda Pavlič

Sašo Slaček Brlek; Jernej Amon Prodnik; Breda Pavlič

doi:10.31269/triplec.v15i1.860

Sašo Slaček Brlek Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Jernej Amon Prodnik Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Breda Pavlič

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v15i1.860

Keywords: Unesco, New International Information and Communication Order, Non-Aligned Movement, the MacBride Report, political economy of communication.

Abstract

Interview with Breda Pavlič, critical researcher and former staff member of UNESCO’s Division of Free Flow of Information and Communication Policies in the 1980s (1984-1989). We discussed her path towards the critical-analysis approach to information and communication problems, the role of such analyses in the academic field of the time, as well as within the political context of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and their initiative in UNESCO and in the United Nations Organization for a New international information and communication order (NIICO).

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.