Culture and Media In Wartime and Post-War Period

Abstract

At the very beginning of the democratization of post-communist societies and European Integration, Republic of Croatia has
encountered a number of obstacles. The hardest period it went through was during the Homeland War. Culture represents an important
part of human life, which is especially expressed in extraordinary situations such as war and post-war periods. Promoting cultural life
during and after the wartime is extremely valuable, especially through the media, which has an increasingly strong influence. The aim of
this paper is to understand the role of newspaper in the context of culture in wartime and post-war years and widening the knowledge
about the relationship between the newspaper and culture. The paper is based on articles about culture published in Zadar newspapers
in the period from 1990 to 1996, collected with the reference to the programme of the Cultural Policy of the Republic of Croatia which,
after adaptation to the newspaper corpus, includes: Literature and Publishing, Visual Art, Music, Performing Arts, Film, Media, Cultural
Heritage – monuments, archives, libraries and museums. The result of the research were obtained by the analysis of 487 issues of
newspapers and 2400 articles. The research consisted of qualitative and quantitative text analysis. The obtained data were processed in
the author's application ZD-newspaper explorer, developed by using the database management program Microsoft Access.