The information provided by the media can be related to plenty of entities including individuals, organizations as well as territories of various kinds and scales. Indeed, images of individual ...communities, regions as well as whole countries are increasingly being shaped just by the media. The role of TV coverage is indispensable in this context as it has the most intense impact on the wide public. Moreover, TV news reporting agenda to a great extent embodies also press or radio coverage agenda. This paper aims at evaluating whether the selected attributes of the real life in NUTS III regions in the Czech Republic find their adequate portrayals in the regionally-related contributions appearing within the national TV news reporting. The share of news concerning the given topic in individual regions should correspond to the presence of the theme in territorial statistics. This article will attempt to uncover the intensity of the above mentioned correspondence. The previously accomplished qualitative researches have revealed that the thematic categories of security and accidents represent nearly half of the topics in regionally-related contributions within the national TV coverage. Both security and accidents themes are distributed unevenly within the national TV news reporting. The key issue is whether spatial differentiation appearing in the TV news reporting reflects the real territorial figures and statistics, i.e., the amount of criminal offences and traffic accidents. Criminal offences and road casualties are both geographically differentiated, but does TV coverage reflect this differentiation in an objective and adequate way? The answer can be derived from this paper. Arguably, the relation between the TV news reporting and regions, which is stated only seldom, will attract higher attention in the near future. Reprinted by permission of Vilnius University, Brno University of Technology, and University of Latvia
This paper deals with immaterial factors of regional development. As it is shown in two case studies, intangible items, such as image, stereotypes or overall atmosphere of the place can hamper the ...development in many territories. From this point of view, old industrial areas represent particularly sensitive entities. As suggested, it is useful to examine the sources of formation of mental maps on the one hand and actively influence them on the other hand.
Lamentations on societal and environmental developments become increasingly audible in our times. Currently, we can hear almost every day about reaching the balance in a very sensitive triangle ...economic sustainability-social sustainability-environmental sustainability. It is largely omitted that concepts of self-governance and self-government constitute one of greatest challenges and opportunities for truly sustainable development in our common future.
There are numerous obscurities connected with territorial marketing. Substantial misunderstandings can occur already for the sake of the fact that this concept was labeled by different notions so ...far. Naturally, the same – with even higher intensity – holds true for the transition economies. This paper focuses upon the practice of territorial marketing in the Czech Republic. As it is shown, there is rather spontaneous than planned development of this concept in the Czech space. At the same time, there exists sufficient room for future application of selected components of territorial marketing in this country.
The article deals with abundant relations between chosen informal institutions and regional development in our country. It is argued that frequently used macro-view that perceives the country as one ...unit disregards the inner spatial economic disparities that may weaken the economic stability of the Czech Republic.
Globalisation became truly frequented notion of our era. There is wide consent that global processes increase both risks and opportunities for individuals, enterprises as well as whole communities ...and countries. In spite of this, it is only seldom stated that globalisation involves also numerous local impacts. Indeed, particular manifestations of global processes can be contemplated in concrete localities and polarity between the global and the local is not accurate. The global does include local and globalisation means also the linking of localities. The main objective of this paper consists in the clarification of socioeconomic nexuses between global processes and localities. Taking into consideration recent socioeconomic developments, we are increasingly entitled to talk about the process of glocalisation that involves both global and local aspects. Global and local represent two sides of the same coin and the nature of contemporary time-spatial processes may be better understood by recognizing and analyzing socioeconomic aspects of glocalisation.
Amount of information provided by media is growing virtually every day Surprisingly, attention devoted to the spatial implications of media information is far from sufficient. Existing researches ...bring ample evidence that TV coverage embodies media agenda in a satisfactory manner as it has rather profound impact on the public on the one hand and is representative enough on the other. Our paper deals with TV news reporting related to NUTS III regions in the Czech Republic. The main perspective adopted in this article is a qualitative one, which facilitates the evaluation of TV news contents. We are deliberately focusing on national TV broadcasting, which is the most influential one. Individual contributions we evaluate appeared in the framework of news reporting in public Czech TV and private Nova and Prima. In spite of severe limitations in media data, our paper covers the period between the years 2004 and 2011, which helps to underpin our conclusions in a sufficient way. Contributions, which are related to individual NUTS III regions and resonate at the national level, constitute the focal point of our research. TV reflection of material reality is of intangible character; nonetheless similarly to material categories, one can identify spatial as well as thematic differentiation and even patterns also in the sphere of TV news reporting. There are only little doubts that media landscape and closely associated mental maps have been largely underestimated so far. Thus, these topics represent one of pivotal theoretical and practical challenges in the field of spatial sciences, which holds true for post-transition country even more.
Regions of traditional industry are often perceived as doomed to economic decline. Old industrial regions in transitional countries constitute entirely new category of problem regions since their ...economic decay differs from their western counterparts substantially both in terms of the origin and the character of their troubles. In the early 1990s these regions suddenly faced the double shock in the form of severe international competition and rather painful inner restructuring. Restructuring of old industrial areas in Central East Europe thus represents a truly topical problem not only for the sake of its unprecedented character but also with regard to its socio-economic impacts. Some of these regions suffer from serious socio-economic problems just according to the initial gloomy prognoses on the one hand but the group of temporary winners emerged on the other hand. It is argued that differentiated transformational trajectories of old industrial regions in transitional countries cannot be satisfactorily explained by traditional theories. However, institutional approaches combined with hermeneutical methods bring acceptable clarification of the diverse development of such kind of regions in Central East Europe. The paper is devoted to the comparison of restructuring in Ostrava agglomeration (Czech Republic) and Katowice conurbation (Poland) from institutional-hermeneutical perspective. While in case of Ostrava region this restructuring turned out to be far from perfect, in Katowice area, on the contrary, pessimistic scenario did not materialise. The different course of restructuring in afore-mentioned regions will be analysed from both rank-territorial (national and regional) and functional (restructuring of traditional industries, development of new activities and communication level of restructuring) perspectives.
The article deals with dichotomic character of contemporary regional development in transitional economies. It is shown the main problem of spatial development in transitional economies consists in ...sharp discordance between inadequately distributed and distorted system macrostructures inherited from socialist period and vogue neo-endogenous paradigm of regional development that is currently widely applied in both developed and transitional countries. The roots of this unfavourable state can be traced back to the history and hence the evolution of regional developmental conceptions that formed wider context of contemporary spatial developments in transitional economies will be discussed too. The case study that focuses on the Czech Republic brings ample evidence about above mentioned tensions.
Territorial marketing became one of the most useful devices of communal managements. Naturally, communities form complex and entirely specific entities and that is why numerous peculiar features are ...concomitant to territorial marketing. The purpose of this article is to show the state of municipal marketing and to monitor this type of marketing within contemporary communal practice in the Czech Republic. Larger communities turned out to be more fastidious and prefer to bait primarily people with university education while their smaller peers are thankful for any new inhabitants. Larger communities also prefer foreign investors and regard journalists in the framework of relationship marketing more. Apart from size peculiarities there appeared also numerous regional specifics of communal marketing in the country, which are in consonance with genuine features of these territories.
