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9.1 Additional Methodological Explanations
• free web press articles (reports) available to all interested readers, es-
pecially to the youth – the ‘net generation’ (Junco & Mastrodicasa,
2007; Nikodem et al., 2014) – which are, as presented within the pre-
vious chapter, not frequent visitors to dark commemorative events.
For the youth (teens), who displaced the consumption of legacy me-
dia, online information has become some kind of norm (Twenge et
al., 2019), which means that the transfer of memories, values and
stories can be effectively made by electronic media – see also Ču-
valo (2010);
• press articles (reports) are particularly focused on public history-
centric dark commemorative events, not including commemora-
tions of 1 November or academic events.
The research/coding unit was a press article (report) as an independent
entity of an online version of the newspapers; reports were searched for
and collected on a daily basis. All available reports from 1 February 2016
to 30 November 2018 were included in the analyses. This approach min-
imised the possibility that any reported history-centric dark commem-
orative events would be overlooked. It is probable, however, that we did
not capture all reports due to changes on the website, but their number
cannot be defined.
The quantitative content analysis allows the inclusion of both substan-
tive (content) and form (formal) features of texts and related visual im-
ages, but only substantive and visual (photographs) features were rated
within this research. Each report was coded according to 42 predeter-
mined codes, each signifying a certain dark commemorative event. Codes
were based on findings in the following sub-chapters: 2.5 ‘Chapter Con-
clusion,’ 3.4 ‘Chapter Conclusion,’ 4.3 ‘Chapter Conclusion,’ 5.4 ‘Chapter
Conclusion,’ 6.5 ‘Discussion and Chapter Conclusion’ and 8.6 ‘Discussion
on History-Centric Dark Commemorative Events in Istria.’ These indi-
cators/codes represent categorical variables with no multiple responses
allowed. To unify the coding process as much as possible, it was done
entirely by one researcher. Following the suggestions of Bryman (2012,
p. 304), a piloting phase was initially implemented in order to be able
to enhance the quality of coding, which means reducing/eliminating the
uncertainty about which category to employ when considering a certain
dimension, or helping identify evidence that one category tends to sub-
sume an extremely large percentage of items.
The process consisted of reading the text first and then carefully exam-
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• free web press articles (reports) available to all interested readers, es-
pecially to the youth – the ‘net generation’ (Junco & Mastrodicasa,
2007; Nikodem et al., 2014) – which are, as presented within the pre-
vious chapter, not frequent visitors to dark commemorative events.
For the youth (teens), who displaced the consumption of legacy me-
dia, online information has become some kind of norm (Twenge et
al., 2019), which means that the transfer of memories, values and
stories can be effectively made by electronic media – see also Ču-
valo (2010);
• press articles (reports) are particularly focused on public history-
centric dark commemorative events, not including commemora-
tions of 1 November or academic events.
The research/coding unit was a press article (report) as an independent
entity of an online version of the newspapers; reports were searched for
and collected on a daily basis. All available reports from 1 February 2016
to 30 November 2018 were included in the analyses. This approach min-
imised the possibility that any reported history-centric dark commem-
orative events would be overlooked. It is probable, however, that we did
not capture all reports due to changes on the website, but their number
cannot be defined.
The quantitative content analysis allows the inclusion of both substan-
tive (content) and form (formal) features of texts and related visual im-
ages, but only substantive and visual (photographs) features were rated
within this research. Each report was coded according to 42 predeter-
mined codes, each signifying a certain dark commemorative event. Codes
were based on findings in the following sub-chapters: 2.5 ‘Chapter Con-
clusion,’ 3.4 ‘Chapter Conclusion,’ 4.3 ‘Chapter Conclusion,’ 5.4 ‘Chapter
Conclusion,’ 6.5 ‘Discussion and Chapter Conclusion’ and 8.6 ‘Discussion
on History-Centric Dark Commemorative Events in Istria.’ These indi-
cators/codes represent categorical variables with no multiple responses
allowed. To unify the coding process as much as possible, it was done
entirely by one researcher. Following the suggestions of Bryman (2012,
p. 304), a piloting phase was initially implemented in order to be able
to enhance the quality of coding, which means reducing/eliminating the
uncertainty about which category to employ when considering a certain
dimension, or helping identify evidence that one category tends to sub-
sume an extremely large percentage of items.
The process consisted of reading the text first and then carefully exam-
197
