Published : 2023-11-21

The Importance of Ethnic Media for the Polish Minority in Lithuania

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This article concerns ethnic media, produced for and by a national minority. In particular, I am interested in the role of ethnic media in the context of the functioning of a national minority with its own state, i.e. such as the Polish minority abroad. I present a model approach to ethnic media in order to confront it with the current media situation for some Polish minority communities abroad, especially from the Central and Eastern European area. Within the framework of a universal approach, I address the main ways in which minority media are funded and their consequences, the wide range of functions of ethnic media, as well as the necessary conditions for them to achieve their various goals affecting minority development. Due to the change in media technology, the opportunities and threats of the development of the internet and virtual communication tools will be juxtaposed. I will contrast this model part with the situation when there is no willingness of young minority representatives to receive ethnic media. This raises the question of the meaning and future of ethnic media and their real possibilities to influence the construction of minorities, as well as the future of the minority itself, which voluntarily and consciously abandons these media.

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ethnic media, minority media, functions of ethnic media, Polish minority, Polish minority in Lithuania, Polish minority in Belarus



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Studia Polonijne · ISSN 0137-5210 | eISSN 2544-526X | DOI: 10.18290/sp
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