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9.6 Discussion on History-Centric Dark Commemorative Events in Istria
deaths, which cannot be found in electronic media reports on public dark
commemorative events in Istria. Many other ‘politically-coloured codes,’
which were included in the TwoStep cluster analysis, were also less rel-
evant or irrelevant (see Figure 9.4), e.g. (q 21c) ‘Politicisation: political
propaganda,’ (q 23c) ‘Symbols of: contemporary state,’ (q 23e) ‘Symbols
of: veterans’ organisations,’ (q 23g) ‘Symbols of: other’ (of e u, of other
organisations). Consequently, these topics were evidently not transferred
to the readers. In addition, militarisation as a special dark tourism issue
highlighted by McKay (2013), McKenna and Ward (2007), and Reynolds
and Lake (2010) was not a particularly highlighted topic in Istrian elec-
tronic media, which means that this deviation cannot be systematically
transferred to the readers, either. Methodologically speaking, however,
militarisation-related codes were the most important predictors for the
creation of clusters – see Figure 9.3.
Pilgrimage, which is linked to dark tourism in sub-chapter 2.4 ‘Warfare
Tourism,’ was not included in the quantitative analysis. Nevertheless, ex-
posure of religious rituals (q26) and symbols (q23) was checked. As can
be seen in Figures 9.4 and 9.3, they also turned out to be completely ir-
relevant for the description of the events and, therefore, these topics were
not transferred to the readers. Religious symbols are one of the possible
components of the death system (Table 2.1), including the dance of death,
and are less interesting for electronic media reporting in the Istrian case.
On the other hand, this also proves that religious aspects are not gener-
ally addressed by journalists and scholars when examining dark tourism
and memory (memorial events).
Within this chapter, we found that regional electronic media, avail-
able also to the ‘net generation,’ most frequently report on memorial ser-
vices related to w w i i (rq 4). Media reports on dark commemorative
events (which reflect the media-created social reality – memorial prac-
tices) are not homogenous, which means that four different clusters of
dark commemorative events were created (rq 5), where w w i i-related
events are the dominating ones and some previously predicted character-
istics (codes) turn out to be less important or irrelevant. In addition, the
dispersion of history-centric dark commemorative events in the trans-
border region of Istria was identified (rq 6) using the geovisualisation
technique, which is also used in sociology. We found that events were
dispersed all over the peninsula and that in this respect, Pula and Koper
as regional centres are very different. In addition, events mostly occurred
in settled areas, whereas only wwi i-related events within Cluster 2 took
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deaths, which cannot be found in electronic media reports on public dark
commemorative events in Istria. Many other ‘politically-coloured codes,’
which were included in the TwoStep cluster analysis, were also less rel-
evant or irrelevant (see Figure 9.4), e.g. (q 21c) ‘Politicisation: political
propaganda,’ (q 23c) ‘Symbols of: contemporary state,’ (q 23e) ‘Symbols
of: veterans’ organisations,’ (q 23g) ‘Symbols of: other’ (of e u, of other
organisations). Consequently, these topics were evidently not transferred
to the readers. In addition, militarisation as a special dark tourism issue
highlighted by McKay (2013), McKenna and Ward (2007), and Reynolds
and Lake (2010) was not a particularly highlighted topic in Istrian elec-
tronic media, which means that this deviation cannot be systematically
transferred to the readers, either. Methodologically speaking, however,
militarisation-related codes were the most important predictors for the
creation of clusters – see Figure 9.3.
Pilgrimage, which is linked to dark tourism in sub-chapter 2.4 ‘Warfare
Tourism,’ was not included in the quantitative analysis. Nevertheless, ex-
posure of religious rituals (q26) and symbols (q23) was checked. As can
be seen in Figures 9.4 and 9.3, they also turned out to be completely ir-
relevant for the description of the events and, therefore, these topics were
not transferred to the readers. Religious symbols are one of the possible
components of the death system (Table 2.1), including the dance of death,
and are less interesting for electronic media reporting in the Istrian case.
On the other hand, this also proves that religious aspects are not gener-
ally addressed by journalists and scholars when examining dark tourism
and memory (memorial events).
Within this chapter, we found that regional electronic media, avail-
able also to the ‘net generation,’ most frequently report on memorial ser-
vices related to w w i i (rq 4). Media reports on dark commemorative
events (which reflect the media-created social reality – memorial prac-
tices) are not homogenous, which means that four different clusters of
dark commemorative events were created (rq 5), where w w i i-related
events are the dominating ones and some previously predicted character-
istics (codes) turn out to be less important or irrelevant. In addition, the
dispersion of history-centric dark commemorative events in the trans-
border region of Istria was identified (rq 6) using the geovisualisation
technique, which is also used in sociology. We found that events were
dispersed all over the peninsula and that in this respect, Pula and Koper
as regional centres are very different. In addition, events mostly occurred
in settled areas, whereas only wwi i-related events within Cluster 2 took
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