„Komunistická kritika“ v dialozích Rudého práva

I employ the concept of media dialogical networks that has been elaborated in the analysis of media data produced at the beginning of the 1990s; it enables the examination of media texts in mutual relations and to perform member-oriented analysis. In this paper I analyse the media dialogical networks that were formed in the national daily Rudé právo [Red Justice] in 1952. The newspaper exchanges from this period, having a spatially and temporally distributed character, display the same main structural features as the dialogical networks from the 1990s. On the other hand, they differ in many aspects. The most noticeable difference is the size: the dialogical networks from 1952 are much smaller, they are usually represented by only two newspaper articles published in an average time span of one month. The most frequently used sequential structure was ’criticism — acceptance of criticism’ therefore I make it the subject of my analysis. I focus on the nature of these structures and examine how the actors of the media dialogues orient themselves to the presence of the criticism in the media texts. The analysis of the collected data has revealed not only a standardized structure of the dialogue (criticism — acceptance of criticism) but also that even the content of the second part of the dialogical networks is to some extent standardized — it often contains identical semantic elements.