Dr Zala Volcic
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts
Books
Liu, Shuang, Volcic, Zala and Gallois, Cindy Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA United States: Sage, 2014.
Liu, Shuang, Volcic, Zala and Gallois, Cindy Introducing intercultural communication: Global cultures and contexts. London, England, U.K.: Sage, 2011.
Volcic, Zala Serbian spaces of identity: Narratives of belonging by the last "Yugo" generation. New York , NY, U.S.A.: Hampton Press, 2011.
Volcic, Zala, Erjavec, Karmen, Welzer-Družovec, Tatjana and Udir Mišič, Katja Mediji in identiteta : (medijski) prostori identitete in pripadnosti. Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press, 2008.
Book Chapters
Volcic, Zala and Simic, Olivera (2013). Localizing transitional justice: civil society practices and initiatives in the Balkans. In Volcic Zala and Olivera Simic (Ed.), Transitional justice and civil society in the Balkans (pp. 1-14) New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5422-9_1
Simic, Olivera, Volcic, Zala and Philpot, Catherine R. (2012). Peace psychology in the Balkans: in times past, present and future. In Olivera Simic, Zala Volcic and Catherine R. Philpot (Ed.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 1-13) New York, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8
Simic, Olivera, Volcic, Zala and Philpot, Catherine R. (2012). Peace psychology in the Balkans: in times past, present, and future. In Olivera Simić, Zala Volčič and Catherine R. Philpot (Ed.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 1-14) New York, NY United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8_1
Volcic, Zala and Plansak, Mojca (2012). Radio stations as spaces for political alternatives during the Yugoslav wars. In Bojan Bilic and Vesna Jankovic (Ed.), Resisting the evil: [Post-]Yugoslav anti-war contention (pp. 175-196) Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2012). 'Media memories' in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Philip Lee and Pradip Ninan Thomas (Ed.), Public memory, public media and the politics of justice (pp. 163-183) Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Erjavec, Karmen, Volcic, Zala, Kovacic, Melita Poler and Vobic, Igor (2012). Journalistic views on post-violent peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Olivera Simic, Volcic, Zala and Catherine R. Philpot (Ed.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 91-108) New York, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8_6
Volcic, Zala (2012). Branding Slovenia: "You can't spell Slovenia without love...". In Nadia Kaneva (Ed.), The Branding of Post-Communist Nations: Marketizing National Identities in the New Europe (pp. 147-167) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Volcic, Zala and Andrejevic, Mark (2011). Commercial nationalism on Balkan reality television. In Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender (Ed.), The politics of reality television: Global perspectives (pp. 113-126) Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203843567
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2011). Fame on the farm: class and celebrity on Slovene reality TV. In Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood (Ed.), Reality television and class (pp. 73-87) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Volcic, Zala (2011). Post-socialist recollections: Identity and memory in former Yugoslavia. In Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar (Ed.), Heritage, memory & identity (pp. 187-198) Thousand Oaks, C.A., U.S.A.: Sage. doi:10.4135/9781446250839.n15
Volcic, Zala and Dzihana, Amer (2011). Introduction: Towards peace journalism. In Amer Dzihana and Zala Volcic (Ed.), Media and national ideologies: Analysis or reporting on war crime trials in the former Yugoslavia (pp. 7-40) Sarajevo: Media Center Sarajevo.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2011). Constructing transnational divas: Gendered production of Balkan Turbo-folk music. In Radha S. Hegde (Ed.), Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (pp. 35-52) New York, United States: New York University Press.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volčič, Zala (2010). Von globalen zu lokalen Konflikten: Die Rekontextualisierung des "war on terror"-Diskurses in nationalistischen Diskursen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien [From global to local conflicts: The recontextualization of the "war on terror" discourse in nationalist di. In Wilhelm Berger, Brigitte Hipfl, Kirstin Mertlitsch and Viktorja Ratković (Ed.), Kulturelle Dimensionen von Konflikten: Gewaltverhältnisse im Spannungsfeld von Geschlecht, Klasse und Ethnizität (pp. 31-46) Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2010). A European public sphere? Communication deficit, the next generations, and Slovenia in the European Union. In Lee R. Duffield and Gary J. Ianziti (Ed.), Europe and the media : Building an new king of Europe; is mass media the key? (pp. 123-143) Saarbrücken , Germany: VDM Verlag.
Volcic, Zala (2010). The struggle to express, create and represent in the Balkans. In Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhishthir Isar (Ed.), Cultures and globalization : Cultural expression, creativity and innovation (pp. 158-165) London, U.K.: SAGE Publications. doi:10.4135/9781446251010.n14
Plansak, Mojca and Volcic, Zala (2010). Reimagining national belonging with community radio. In Kevin Howley (Ed.), Understanding community media (pp. 78-86) Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.: Sage.
Volcic, Zala and Andrejevic, Mark (2010). Slovene reality television: The commercial re-inscription of the national. In Amir Hetsroni (Ed.), Reality Television: Merging the Global and the Local (pp. 79-93) New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Volcic, Zala (2009). Neither “East” nor “West”: The past and present life of Yugoslav identity.. In Petya Kabakchieva and Alexander Kiossev (Ed.), “Rules” and “Roles”: Fluid institutions and hybrid identities in East European transformation processes (1989 – 2005. Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology 1st ed. (pp. 251-266) Berlin: Lit Verlag.
Volcic, Zala (2009). Television in the Balkans: The rise of commercial nationalism. In Graeme Turner and Jinna Tay (Ed.), Television studies after TV: Understanding television in the post-broadcast era 1st ed. (pp. 115-124) Abingdon Oxford: Routledge.
Volcic, Z. and Louw, P. E. (2007). Defining the other as irrational: Western coverage of the Balkans and the foundations of the Western Gaze. In M. Zlateva (Ed.), The Image of the Balkans (pp. xx-xx) Thessaloniki, Greece ; Sofia: Institute for Balkan Studies ; Unesco.
Journal Articles
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2015) Watching pink reality TV. Feminist Media Studies, 15 1: 74-91. doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.988393
Kožuh, Ines, Hintermair, Manfred, Holzinger, Andreas, Volčič, Zala and Debevc, Matjaž (2014) Enhancing universal access: deaf and hard of hearing people on social networking sites. Universal Access in the Information Society, 14 4: 537-545. doi:10.1007/s10209-014-0354-3
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2014) Transnational celebrity activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: local responses to Angelina Jolie's film In the Land of Blood and Honey. European Journal of Cultural Studies, OnlineFirst 3: 1-20. doi:10.1177/1367549414526728
Volčič, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2013) 'I want to leave Slovenia for a sunny, relaxed and open Australia': imagining Australia in Slovenia. Media International Australia, 1 149: 55-66.
Volcic, Zala, Erjavec, Karmen and Peak, Mallory (2013) Branding post-war Sarajevo: journalism, memories, and dark tourism. Journalism Studies, 15 6: 726-742. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2013.837255
Volcic, Zala (2013) Connecting the Disconnected: Balkan Culture Studies. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 10 2-3: 333-339. doi:10.1080/14791420.2013.812597
Volcic, Zala and Zajc, Melita (2013) Hybridisation of slovene public broadcasting: from national community towards commercial nationalism. Media International Australia, 146: 93-102.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2013) Commercial and sexualized nationalism on Serbian reality TV. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 6: 597-614. doi:10.1177/1367877912441440
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2012) A continuous battle: relationships between journalists and politicians in Slovenia. Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 7 2: 1-9.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2011) Hidden minorities in Kosovo: "We feel like ghosts in our own communities". Dve Domovini = Two Homelands, 33 2: 123-140.
Volcic, Zala and Mark Andrejevic (2011) Nation branding in the era of commercial nationalism. International Journal of Communication, 5 1: 598-618.
Poler Kovacic, Melita, Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2010) Media coverage of health issues: A study of advertorials in the Slovene daily newspapers. China Media Research, 6 4: 32-42.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2010) 'Target', 'cancer' and 'warrior': Exploring painful metaphors of self-presentation used by girls born of war rape. Discourse and Society, 21 5: 524-543. doi:10.1177/0957926510373981
Erjavec, Karmen and Volčič, Zala (2010) Living with the sins of their fathers: An analysis of self-representation of adolescents born of war rape. Journal of Adolescent Research, 25 3: 359-386. doi:10.1177/0743558410361373
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2010) Information literacy: A means of preparing the students in Slovenia for the information society. Journal of Children and Media, 4 1: 59-76. doi:10.1080/17482790903407325
Louw, Eric and Volcic, Zala (2010) Diasporic grief and grievance on-line: How South African and Serbian diasporas use the web. Global Media Journal: African Edition, 4 1: 1-19.
Volčič, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2010) The paradox of Ceca and the turbo-folk audience. Popular Communication, 8 2: 103-119. doi:10.1080/15405701003676121
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) Rehabilitating Milošević: Posthumous coverage of the Milošević regime in Serbian newspapers. Social Semiotics, 19 2: 125-147. doi:10.1080/10350330902815899
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) Management through spiritual self-help discourse in post-socialist Slovenia. Discourse & Communication, 3 2: 123-143. doi:10.1177/1750481309102449
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) A Slovene president’s self-help discourse: Making Slovenes more positive. Critical Discourse Studies, 6 2: 97-110. doi:10.1080/17405900902749965
Cokley, John D. and Volcic, Zala (2009) Body image drives new environment for news delivery. Asian-Pacific Business Review, 5 2: 49-60. doi:10.1177/097324700900500204
Hanusch, Folker, Obijiofor, Levi M. and Volcic, Zala (2009) Theoretical and practical issues in team-teaching a large undergraduate class. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21 66-74.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2009) Nostalgia for Greater Serbia: Media coverage of Radovan Karadžic’s arrest. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 11 1/2: 24-46.
Volcic, Zala and Plansak, Mojca (2009) Social networking as a way of crafting the identity. Kulturen Zivot, 54 1/2: 72-78.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) Journalistic (re)production of history: Televized coverage of Radovan Karadžić’s arrest in Serbia. Solsko Polje, 20 5/6: 75-99.
Volcic, Zala (2009) Phenomenon of self-branding on social networking sites. Kulturen Zivot, 54 3/4: 10-17.
Volcic, Zala and Andrejevic, Mark (2009) That’s me: Nationalism and identity on Balkan reality TV. Canadian Journal of Communication, 34 1: 7-24.
Volcic, Z. (2008) Former Yugoslavia on the world wide web: Commercialization and branding of nation-states. The International Communication Gazette, 70 5: 395-413. doi:10.1177/1748048508094292
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Z. (2008) 'We Defend Western Civilization': Serbian Representations of a Cartoon Conflict. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 19 3: 305-321. doi:10.1080/09596410802127979
Volcic, Z. (2008) Media, Identity, and Gender: Tracking Feminist Media and Journalism Theories and Methodologies. Media Research: Croatian Journal for Journalism and Media, 14 1: 5-20.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2008) Technological developments in Central-Eastern Europe: A case study of a computer literacy project in Slovenia. Information, Communication and Society, 11 3: 326-347. doi:10.1080/13691180802025350
Volcic, Zala (2007) Scenes from the last Yugoslav generation: The long march from Yugo-Utopia to Nationalisms. Cultural Dynamics, 19 1: 67-89. doi:10.1177/0921374007077270
Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. (2007) 'War on terrorism' as a discursive battleground: Serbian recontextualization of G.W. Bush's discourse. Discourse and Society, 18 2: 123-137. doi:10.1177/0957926507073370
Volcic, Z. (2007) Yugo-nostalgia: Cultural memory and media in the former Yugoslavia. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 1: 21-38. doi:10.1080/07393180701214496
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2007) Recontextualizing Traumatic Pasts: Croatian Justification of War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 2 1: 10-22.
Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. (2007) The Kosovo battle: Media's recontextualization of the Serbian nationalistic discourses. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 12 3: 67-86. doi:10.1177/1081180X07302943
Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. (2006) Mapping the notion of "terrorism" in Serbian and Croation newspapers. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 30 4: 298-318. doi:10.1177/0196859906290429
Volcic, Zala (2006) Blaming the media: Serbian narratives of national(ist) identity. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 20 3: 313-330. doi:10.1080/10304310600814177
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2006) Media education success in Slovenia: What next?. Media Development, 1 Celebrating Cultural Diversity: 47-52.
Volcic, Z (2006) French theory and media studies: What can media cultural studies learn from M. Foucault, P. Bourdieu and J.P. Sartre?. Identities Journal - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 5 1: 45-63.
Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. (2006) Becoming media literate? Media Education in Slovenia after Ten Years. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 61 3: 284-296. doi:10.1177/107769580606100306
Volcic, Z. (2006) Media, identities, and immigrants:Arab satellite televisions in Italy. Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, 12 2: 63-77.
Volcic, Z (2005) Belgrade vs. Serbia: Spatial re-configurations of belonging. Journal of Ethnic And Migration Studies, 31 4: 639-658. doi:10.1080/13691830500109746
Volcic, Z. (2005) 'The machine that creates Slovenians': The role of Slovenian public broadcasting in re-affirming the Slovenian national identity. National Identities, 7 3: 287-308. doi:10.1080/14608940500201847
Volcic, Z. (2005) The notion of 'the West' in the Serbian national imaginary. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 2: 155-175. doi:10.1177/1367549405051842
Volcic, Zala (2004) Place and resistance: narratives of living in Serbia's 1990s. European Journal of Anthropology, 2004 44: 103-118. doi:10.3167/092012904782311317
Volčič, Zala (2003) Who wants to be a media literate? Locating media research methods and applying them to the media literacy concept. Medijska istraživanja: hrvatski znanstveno-stručni časopis za novinarstvo i medije, 9 2: 35-67.
Conference Papers
Volcic, Zala (2012). Turbo-folk music in the Balkans: Ceca as a transnational femme fatale. In: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference (CSAA 2012), Sydney, Australia, (). 4-6 December 2012.
Volcic, Zala (2010). Community radio in Slovenia: Some issues. In: International Association for Media and Communication Research, Braga, Portugal, (). 20-25 July 2010.
Volcic, Zala (2010). Commercial nationalism on Slovene television. In: International Communication Association Conference 2010 (ICA 2010), Singapore, (). 2-5 July 2010.
Welzer, T., Volcic, Z., Brumen, B., Golob, I., Kamisalic, A. and Holbl, M. (2008). Conceptual model - Meeting of cultures. In: Information Systems and e-Business Technologies - 2nd International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2008, Proceedings. 2nd International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria, (365-370). 22-25 April 2008.
Volcic, Z. (2006). Mapping civil society in former Yugoslavia. In: Proceedings of: 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Networking Communication Research. 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Networking Communication Research, Dresden, Germany, (). 19-23 June 2006.
Volcic, Z. (2006). Former Yugoslavia on the world wide web: Commercialization and branding of nation-states. In: 7th Annual AoIR Conference: Internet Convergences, Brisbane, Australia, (). 27-30 September 2006.