Women in Polish TV Series: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Beata Królicka is a PhD student at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). Her fields of interest are media discourse, political communication, sociology of emotions and postcolonial theory.

Andrzej Meler has been affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń as a freelancer, researcher, and academic teacher since 2015. Previously, for 10 years, he worked as a research and analysis specialist at the Polska Press Group, where he was responsible for web analytics for news and classified portals. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the main statistician for the PayTech Impact. EU project (http://paytech.umk.pl). He has participated in dozens of research projects as a project manager, researcher, analyst, and data explorer. Currently, his research focuses mainly on media (TV, radio, social media) in terms of their pluralism and the role of emotions in media communication. He primarily uses quantitative methods, statistical analysis, and data modelling in his work.

Radosław Sojak is a PhD, post-doctoral degree, assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Junior Fulbright Research Scholar at University of Virginia, Charlottesville (1999). Grantee of Ministry of Science and Higher Education and British Commonwealth Office (Plater/Nuffield Collage at Oxford 1998) and Foundation for Polish Science (twice 2000 and 2003). Author and co-author of five monographs: The Anthropological Paradox: Sociology of Knowledge as a Perspective In Sociological Theory (2004); The Lost Reality: On the Social Construction of the Unknown (2005 with D. Wicenty); The Promise Fulfilled: T he Preliminary Theory of ‘Research Styles’ – the Case of The Sociology of Knowledge (2014); Aristocrats and Craftsmen: A Synergy of Research Styles (2015 with Ł. Afeltowicz) and Citizens Platform’s State: A Closing Report (2015 with A. Zybertowicz and M. Gurtowski). Main fields of interest include: social theory, sociology of science and knowledge, post-communist transformation, public discourse analysis.