The Curving Mirror of Time

Abstract

The Approaches to Culture Theory book series focuses on various aspects of analysis, modelling, and theoretical understanding of culture. Culture theory as a set of complementary theories is seen to include and combine the approaches of different sciences, among them semiotics of culture, archaeology, environmental history, ethnology, cultural ecology, cultural and social anthropology, human geography, sociology and the psychology of culture, folklore, media and communication studies. Series editorsKalevi Kull Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu List of figuresThe second commemoration sample of two Estonian dailies, 1989Estonian dailies, , 1994Estonian dailies, and 2009 Information sources in stories on the MRP and related issues, 1989, 1999 and 2009 . 102 Speakers in stories on the MRP and related issues, 1989, 1999 and 2009 . . . . . . . . . 103 Time references in stories on the MRP and related issues, 1989, 1999 and 2009 . . . . 105 Geo-political space in stories on the MRP and related issues, 1989, 1999 and 2009 . . 105 Symbols used in the anniversary journalism of Soviet Estonia (Noorte Hääl 1964, 1969 Õhtuleht 1969 Rahva Hääl 1979) . . . . 117 Narrative of the day of liberating Tallinn (22 September 1944) 'Beautiful Mirka' (Külaline 1910, 20 Feb, 4) . 161 English-Dutch oil king Henri Deterding with his wife (Päewaleht 1929, 31 Jan, 3); golden wedding anniversary couple the Niggols (Päewaleht 1925, 24 Dec, 6) . . . 165 Shoe polish advertisement (Postimees 1925, 11 Oct, 3); fashion drawing (Päewaleht 1922, 26 Aug, 8 Notes on editors and contributorsHalliki Harro-Loit (halliki.harro@ut.ee) is professor of journalism and leads the research group on cultural communication at the Centre of Excellence in the Cultural Theory, University of Tartu, Estonia. She is the author of numerous academic publications and articles on journalism culture. She has been interested in binding qualitative and quantitative methods; her recent academic interest has been in diachronic changes in mediated culture, especially how this can be traced via archived media materials.Valeria Jakobson (valeriajakobson@hotmail.com) is researcher of minority media and audiences at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research focuses on minority media development, history representations in the minority media, and the role of the media in the adaptation of the minority in the Estonian state and society.Katrin Kello (katrin.kello@ut.ee) is researcher and doctoral student at the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research currently focuses on conceptions of the aims and functions of history instruction within the context of contested representations of the past.Tiiu Kreegipuu (tiiu.kreegipuu@ut.ee) is researcher in media history at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main fields of research are the role(s) of the press in totalitarian societies and Estonian media history under the Soviet occupation.Roosmarii Kurvits (roosmarii.kurvits@ut.ee) is researcher...

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