THE FIRST BALKAN WAR IN THE SERBIAN DIGITALIZED PERIODICAL LITERATURE AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

Abstract

The paper presents, by a comparative method, Serbian digitalized periodical literature on the beginning of the First Balkan War in Serbia, for the years of 1912 and 2012, focusing on October 6th. How did the Serbian newspapers inform the public about the beginning of the First Balkan War in Serbia? Also, we have presented what is written in today’s newspaper, on the same date, a hundred years after the First Balkan War. How journalists from the beginning of the 20th century reported on the war, and what kind of “image” journalists have today? The paper used accessible and digitalized press, such as “Politika”, “Pravda”, “Pijemont”, and “Srpske novine” from the war period, as well as today’s newspapers, such as “Politika” “Vreme” and “Danas”. Apart from the press, how much could be heard about the centenary of the First Balkan War, through multimedia content, as well as about the documentary shows dedicated to the war, which are available today? Using a comparative method, we tried to see how the media presented the problem of the First Balkan War. We tried to get an answer to the question: “How much did the Balkan War affect the consciousness of the Serbs?”. Why is it important to talk about the First Balkan War, to the same extent as we do with the First World War? So, we will have a general “picture” of the historical content and the way the First Balkan War was presented in the digitalized periodical literature available to us from the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as in other media, in today’s public information.