This thesis examines media reporting on intimate partner and domestic violence, which is increasingly recognized as a pressing social problem. The media play an important role in this regard, as they shape public understanding of violence and direct the audience's attention. Based on the theory of preferential thematization, the theory of framing, and the conceptualization of domestic violence and intimate partner violence, we were interested in how the Slovenian online portals 24ur.com and RTVSLO.si report on intimate partner and domestic violence. Based on an analysis of the content of media reports on both portals, we found that there is a great similarity in the style and design of the reports, but they differ considerably in terms of the degree of commercialisation. The 24ur.com portal included many more advertisements and links to similar content in its articles than RTVSLO.si. It also turned out that 24ur.com more often reports on specific events and their continuations and outcomes than on the thematization and problematization of this type of violence as a social problem or as an area of politics. Differences between the two portals were also evident in the labelling of perpetrators, which was much more emotionally charged and marked in the case of 24ur.com than in the case of RTVSLO.si. Surprisingly, 24ur.com, as a private, commercial media outlet, included experts in its reports more often than the public portal RTVSLO.si.
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