The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland

BOOKS

- Crossing Cultural Boundaries: An Introduction to Intercultural Communication (in press). Completed co-authored manuscript to be published by Sage, 2010 (Shuang Liu, Zala Volcic, Cindy Gallois).

- Mediji in Identiteta [Media and Identity]. Slovenia/Maribor: University of Maribor Press, 2008.

- Razumevanje Televizije [Understanding television] (with Karmen Erjavec). Ljubljana: Rokus Press, 2000.

Co-authored

- Research on Media Education (with Karmen Erjavec). Ljubljana: SOROS Press, 1999.

- Moc Televizije [The power of television]. A book on television viewing habits of Slovene youth (with Karmen Erjavec). Ljubljana: Rokus Press, 1999.

Co-edited

-Growing up with the media (with Karmen Erjavec). ZPMS, Ljubljana, January 1999.

ARTICLES

- Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K., “ Information Literacy: A Means of preparing the students for Information Society”. To be published in Journal of Children and Media.

- Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K., “Nostalgia for Greater Serbia: The Media Coverage of Radovan Karadžić’s Arrest”. To be published in Journal of Global Mass Communication.

- Volcic, Z. and Andrejevic, M. “That’s Me: Nationalism, Power, and Identity on Balkan Reality TV”. In Canadian Journal of Communication, 34 (1), 2009, pp. 7-24.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Rehabilitating Milošević : Posthumous Coverage of the Milošević Regime in Serbian Newspaper". In Social Semiotics, 19 (2), 2009, pp. 125-147.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Governing of Slovene President through Self-Help Discourse”. In Critical Discourse Studies, 6 (2), 2009, pp. 97-110.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Management through Spiritual Self-Help discourse in Post-Socialist Slovenia”. In Discourse and Communication, 3 (2), 2009, pp. 123-143.

- Volcic Z. and Plansak, M. “Social Networking as a Way of Crafting the Identity”. In Kulturen Zivot [Cultural Life], Macedonian Media Journal 1 (2), 2009, pp. 72-78.

- Volcic, Z. “Former Yugoslavia on the World Wide Web: Commercialization and Branding of Nation-states.” In International Communication Journal, Gazette, 70 (5), 2008, pp. 395–413.

- Volcic Z. and Erjavec K. “Technological developments in Central-Eastern Europe: A case-study of a computer literacy project in Slovenia” (with Karmen Erjavec). In Information Communication & Society , 11 (3), 2008, pp. 326-347.

- Volcic, Z. “Media, Identity, and Gender: Tracking Feminist Media and Journalism Theories and Methodologies.” In Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, 14 (1), 2008, pp. 5-20.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “We Defend Western Civilization – Serbian Representations of a Cartoon Conflict”. In ICMR / Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations , 19 (3), 2008, pp. 305-321.

- Volcic Z. “They are all anti-war profiteers!' Contesting civil society landscapes in Serbia". In Global Journal/Communication for Development and Social Change 2 (3), 2008, pp. 49-70.

- Volcic, Z. “Yugo-nostalgia: Cultural Memory and Media in the former Yugoslavia”. In Critical Studies of Media Communication, 24 (1), 2007, pp. 21-38.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “'War on Terrorism’ as a Discursive Battleground” (with Karmen Erjavec). In Discourse and Society Journal, 18 (2), 2007, pp. 123-137.

- Volcic, Z. “Scenes from the Last Yugoslav Generation: The long march from Yugo-utopia to Nationalisms.” In Cultural Dynamics, 19 (1), 2007, pp. 67–89.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Recontextualizing Traumatic Pasts: Croatian Justification of War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina”. In Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 2 (1), 2007, pp. 10-22

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “The Kosovo battle: Media’s recontextualisation of the Serbian nationalistic discourses”. In Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 12 (3), 2007, pp. 67-86.

- Volcic, Z. “Blaming the Media: Serbian narratives of national(ist) identity.” In Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 20 (3), 2006, pp. 313 – 330.

- Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. “Becoming Media Literate”. In Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 61 (3), 2006, pp. 284-296

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Mapping the notion of “terrorism” in Serbian and Croatian newspapers”. In Journal of Communication Inquiry, 30 (4), 2006, pp. 298-318.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Media education success in Slovenia: What next?” In Media Development, 1 (1), 2006, pp. 47-53.

- Volcic, Z. “Media, Identities, and Immigrants: Arab Satellite Televisions in Italy.” In Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, 12 (2), 2006, pp. 63-77.

- Volcic, Z. “French Theory and Media Studies: What can Media Cultural studies learn from M. Foucault, P. Bourdieu and J.P. Sartre?” In Identities journal - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 5 (1), 2006, pp. 45-63.

- Volcic, Z. “The notion of “The West” in the Serbian National Imaginary.” In European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 (2), 2005, pp. 155-175.

- Volcic, Z. “The Machine that Creates Slovenes: The role of Slovene Public Broadcasting in re-affirming the Slovene national identity.” In National Identities Journal, 7 (3), 2005, pp. 287-308.

Volcic, Z. “Belgrade vs. Serbia: Spatial Re-configurations of Belonging.” In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), 31 (4), 2005, pp.639-658.

- Volcic, Z. “Place and Resistance: Narratives of Living in Serbia’s 1990s.” In Focaal, European Journal of Anthropology, 44 (2), 2004, pp. 103-118.

- Volcic, Z. “Mapping the War Reporting.” In Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 10 (2), 2004, pp. 77-83.

- Volcic, Z. “Who Wants to be a Media Literate? Locating Media Research Methods and Applying them to the ‘Media Literacy’ Concept.” In Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 9 (2), 2003, pp. 35-67.

- Volcic, Z. “A Critical Historical Overview of Media Approaches.” In Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 7 (2), 2001, pp. 45-69.

- Volcic, Z. “The Survival of Public Broadcasting.” In Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 6 (1), 2000, pp. 19-41.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Media education in Slovenia”. In Media Development, 46 (3), 1999, pp. 21-27.

- Volcic, Z. “Evaluation of the Slovene Civic/Media education model.” In Theory and Practice, 21(1), University of Ljubljana, 1999, pp. 34-54.

BOOK CHAPTERS

- Volcic, Z. “The Struggle to Express, Create and Represent in the Balkans”. To be published in Globalization and Culture, Volume 3 (ed. Yudhishthir Raj Isar & Helmut Anheier). London: Routledge.

- Volcic, Z. and Andrejevic, M. “Commercial Nationalism on Balkan Reality TV.” To be published in Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication & Media Studies. London: Routledge.

- Volcic, Z. and Erjavec K. “Constructing Transnational Divas: Gendered production of Balkan Turbo-folk music.” To be published in Tracking Visibilities: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (ed. Radha S. Hegde). New York: NYU Press.

- Volcic, Z. and Andrejevic M. “Slovene Reality Television: The Commercial Re-inscription of the National”. To be published in Anthology of Reality TV (ed. Amir Hetsroni). New York : Nova Science Publishers.

- Volcic, Z. “Television in the Balkans: The Rise of Commercial Nationalism.” In Television Studies after “TV”: Understanding television in the post-broadcast era (ed. Graeme Turner). London: Routledge, 2009.

- Volcic, Z. “Neither 'East' nor 'West': The Past and present Life of Yugoslav Identity”. In Rules and Roles: Fluid Institutions, Hybrid Roles, and Identities in East European Transformation Processes (1989-2005) (eds. Kiossev Alexander&Petya Kabakchieva). Sofia: University of Sofia, 2009.

- Plansak, M. and Volcic, Z. “Community Radio in former Yugoslavia: Re-imagining National Belongings”. In Community Radio Reader (ed. Kevin Howley). London: Sage, 2009.

- Volcic Z. and Louw E. “The Representations of the Balkans and South Africa”. In Image of the Balkans: Historical Approaches and Communication Perspectives (ed. Minka Zlateva). Sofia: Unesco Press, 2008.

- Volcic, Z. “Serbian Way of Social Change: Otpor! and its anti-Milosevic’s Resistance Strategies.” In Social Change Reader (ed. Pradip Thomas). St. Lucia: UQ Press, 2008.

- Volcic, Z. and Erjavec K. “Discourse of War and Terrorism in Serbia: ‘We were fighting the terrorists already in Bosnia…’”. In Discourse, War and Terrorism (eds. A. Hodges and C. Nilep). John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 2007.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Croatian journalists' narratives on Croatian war crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina”. In Caligrama ( São Paulo, Online), 2007.

- Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. “Ten years of media education course in Slovenia”. In Medien-Impulse, Frankfurt Presse, 2007.

- Volcic, Z. “Media education as a part of mother tongue teaching in Slovenian secondary schools”. In Media education in 12 European countries. HART, Andrew (ed.), SÜSS, Daniel (ed.). Zürich: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2002.

- Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. “Media Education: The Need for a Curriculum Development.” In Liberal Democracy, Citizenship, and Education. Luthar, Oto, Keith A. Mcleod, Mitja Zagar (eds.). Mosaic Press, New York, 2001.

- Volcic, Z. "A Metaphor of a Veil: Masking or Un-Masking A Woman?” In The Face of the Other, Suzana Milevska (ed.), SOROS, Macedonia, 2000.

- Volcic, Z. “Identity and difference: Late-capitalism: Who is the beauty and who is the beast?” In Image of the Other, Suzana Milevska (ed.), SOROS, Macedonia, 1999.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2009

- “ Commodifying the Past: Commercial Nationalism and Nostalgia.” Invited lecture at Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia, 15 September.

- “Balkan Media and the Crossroads of Competing Narratives.” Paper presented at Cultures of Violence and Conflict conference, University of Queensland, Australia, 20-23 July.

- “Media and Literacy: Preparing for Unknown Futures” (with Rhonda Breit). Paper presented at ANZCA (Australian & New Zealand Communication Association) conference, QUT, 7-10 June.

- “Extreme Make-Over ‘Balkan Style’: Media Coverage of Radovan Karadzic's Arrest” (with Karmen Erjavec). Paper presented at ANZCA (Australian & New Zealand Communication Association) conference, QUT, 7-10 June.

- “Communication technologies and New Types of (Information) Control.” Invited presentation at Knowledge, Society, Modelling conference, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 1-4 June.

- “The state of Community Radio in Slovenia and Macedonia and their social ex/inclusion” (with Mojca Plansak). A paper presented at the Integrating Differences –Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion in the Balkans on its Road to the EU , Euro Balkan Institute, Macedonia, 27-30 May.

2008

- “Commercial Nationalism on Balkan TV” (with Mark Andrejevic). A paper presented at the Real Worlds: Global Perspectives on the Politics of Reality Television. Symposium organized by Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania , USA, December 5.

- “Balkan Reality TV: Some considerations” (with Mark Andrejevic). A paper presented at the Reel TV and Democracy conference, Istanbul, Turkey , Khadir Has University, 9-12 September.

- “Power, Participation, Community Radio: Some Consideration from former Yugoslav region.” A paper presented at the IAMCR conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-21 August.

- “Brand Yourself: Commodified Female Identities on Myspace." A paper presented at the conference Glocal 2.0: Blogging: Evolution treated as Revolution, New York University of Skopje, Macedonia, 8-11 May.

- “Cinema and music as hybrid art forms in Southeastern Europe.” A paper presented at the conference How Big is Your World – Cultural Policy and Globalization, Museum of World Culture, Göteborg, Sweden, 10-13 April.

2007

- “Media Representations of a Cartoon Conflict” (with Karmen Erjavec). A paper presented at the New Zealand Discourse Conference, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 5-8 December.

- “Internationalization and Intercultural Challenges” (with Tatjana Welzer). A paper presented at EAIE (European Association for International Education) conference, Trotheim, Norway, 12-16 September.

- “Media and Cultural Memory.” Lecture at Critical and Cultural Studies Center, University of Queensland, Australia, August 8.

- “Towards a communicative methodology for revisioning journalism education” (with Rhonda Breit). A paper presented at AMIC (Asian Media and Information and Communication) conference, Singapore, 25-28 June.

- “YU and Identity”. A paper presented at ICA conference(Political Communication),San Francisco, USA, 22-25 May.

- “Yugo-Nostalgia in Mass Media.” Invited lecture at New York University, Department of Culture and Communication, USA, February 6.

2006

- “Former Yugoslavia on the World Wide Web: Commercialization and Branding of Nation-states.” A paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 25-29 September.

- “Media Landscapes in former Yugoslav countries.” Invited lecture at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Anthropology Department, August 30.

- “Community Radio in Action.” A paper presented at UQ conferenceThe mapping of Communication for Social Change, Brisbane, Australia, 5-9July.

- “Mapping Civil Society in Former Yugoslavia.” A paper presented at ICA conference(International & Development Communication), Dresden, Germany, June 19-25.

- “Blaming the Media: Serbian narratives of National(ist) identity.”A paper presented at ICA conference(Popular Communication), Dresden, Germany, 19-25 June.

- “Defining the Other as Irrational: Western coverage of the Balkans and the foundations of the Western gaze” (with Eric Louw). A paper presented at Unesco Conference, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-24 May.

- “' That's Me': Reality TV and its democratic promise.” A paper presented at The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Vancouver, Canada, 1-5 March.

2005

- “Law and professional communication: towards a communicative methodology for reform” (with Rhonda Breit ). A paper presented at the Journalism Education Association conference (JEA),Griffith University, Australia, November 29-December 2.

- “Balkan Media Representations.” A paper presented at the Oslo Film Institute conference, Norway, 21-25 September.

- “Nostalgia and Intercultural Communication in former Yugoslav republics.” A paper presented at the Center for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria, 1-8 June.

- “Memory and nostalgia for the former Yugoslavia.” A paper presented at The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, London, UK, University of London, March 31-April 3.

- “The Downfall – Media and Memory.” A paper presented at the Panel Discussion hosting the director of the film the Downfall – Hitler’s Last Days Bernd Eichinger . Franklin College , Lugano, Switzerland, April 20.

2004

- “Globalization, media and a new world order.” An acceptance speech delivered at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in Toronto, Canada, 7-11 August.

- “Generational Media Memories of the Wars in former Yugoslavia: Mediated Structures of Feeling.” A paper presented at the University of Vienna Conference, “ The Information Wars in the Balkans since 1991,” Vienna University, Austria, 19-21 July.

- “Marching from an “Artificial” Yugoslav Identity Towards the “Real” Serbian National Identity.” A paper presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalism’s World Conference at the Columbia University, New York, USA, 15-18 April.

- “Belonging to the City: A Comparative Perspective Between Belgrade and Tirana.” A paper presented at theConference of Europeanists, “Europe and the World: Integration, Interdependence, Exceptionalism,” Northwestern University, Chicago , USA, 11-14 March.

- “Nationalism, the media and the (re)construction of the past.” A guest lecture at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, Netherlands, 16-18 February.

2003

- “The Marketing of 'a Revolution': Mapping Social Movements.” A paper presented at The European Institute for Communication and Culture Colloquium in Piran, Slovenia, 15-25 September.

- “The Role of Slovene Public Broadcasting in Re-affirming Slovene National Identity.” A paper presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalism’s World Conference at the Columbia University, New York, USA, 2-5 April.

- “Re-Mapping Media Spaces: Media Education and its Role in Slovenia.” A paper presented at the AEJMC conference, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 25-28 February.

- “Belgrade vs. Serbia: Belonging to the City or the Nation State?” A paper presented at the Kokkalis conference, at the Harvard University, USA, February 7.

2002

- “The Machines that Create Nationals: The role of the Media in Re-inventing the Balkan identities.” A paper presented at the conference “Balkan identities.” University of Belgrade, Serbia, July 15.

- “Otpor (Resistance)! as a Social Movement: Redefining Resistance.” A gust feature-presentation at the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival 2002. University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 22-25 April.

2001

- “The portrayal of the Balkans in the Eastern and Western Media.” A paper presented at the conference Arab Stereotyping: How Arabs Are Seen and How They See Themselves and Others at the Lebanese American University and The Beirut Institute for Media Arts, Beirut,Lebanon, 5-9 November.

- “The Theoretical Origins of Media Education programs.” A paper presented at the International Communication Association ( ICA) conference, Washington , USA , DC, 24-28 May.

- “Imperialism and Colonialism: The Role of the Media in Past and Present.” A presentation at the conference Natives, Aliens, and Immigrants: The Politics of Borders. University of Colorado at Boulder, 4-9 March.

- “Urban spaces in the Balkans: Locating the Sense of Belonging.” A paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference on “Aesthetics for a New Millennium.” University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 19-22 April.

- “Communities of Exile and the role of the Media.”A presentation atthe Symposium on Exile organized by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 27.

2000

- “The End of national media?” A presentation to the Tim Brennan and Jacqui Alexander Research Review panel at the Postcolonial Anxieties and the Unmaking of Postcolonial Theory Symposium, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 14-15 October.

- “Who belongs to the public?” A presentation to the Oscar Gandy Research Review panel at the AEJMC’s GEIG 2000 Year Research Conference held at the University of Colorado, 14-16 April.

- “Illusion of News.” A paper presented at the International Summer School “The Face of the Other,” Skopje, Macedonia, 1-15 July.

- “Charting Media Territory.” A presentation at the International Summer School “ End and Beginning. On Event in Human Sciences,” Cluj , Romania , July 17-August 5.

1999

-“The evaluation of the Slovene model Media education.” A paper presented (with Karmen Erjavec) at the Slovene Academy for Science and Humanities conference on “Citizenship and Multiculturalism:” Media Education as Civic Education, Kranj, Slovenia, 26-29 November.

- “Late-capitalism and Globalization of News.” A presentation at the International Summer School “The Image of The Other,” Skopje, Macedonia, 10-29 July.

1998

- “The Virtues of Civility.” A paper presented at The Center for Humanities and the Artsconference on “Civility and Censorship: Critical Conversation in a Civil Society.” University of Colorado, USA, April 1998.

- “Media Education: from passive consumerism toward active citizenship.” A paper presented at the Slovene Academy for Science and Humanities conference on “Citizenship and Multiculturalism.” Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 1998.

1997

- “The Public Sphere in Non-Western Societies.” A paper presentedat the 11 th Colloquium on Communication and Culture: on Political Representation and Public Opinion,organized by EURICOM (European Institute for Communication and Culture). Piran, Slovenia, June 1997.

- “Does Functional Illiteracy Influence the Formation of Public Opinion?” A paper presented at IAMCR Annual conference (Political Communication section), Oaxaca,Mexico, July 1997.

- “Slovene Media in the 1990s: Locating Media Power.” A paper presented atthe MacBride Roundtable on Communication: Culture and Global Communication in the Information Society. Boulder, Colorado, USA, October 1997.