Rhetoric and Communications, Issue 68, July 2026

Political, Public, Media and Internet Communication

Editor

Prof. Dr. Sc. Ivanka Mavrodieva

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

E-mail: mavrodieva@phls.uni-sofia.bg

 

Editor’s Words – DOI 10.55206/DFBJ5411 – 5

Political and Public Communication

Conceptual Metaphors of the Political Order. Structures, Hierarchies, Agents and the (Im)Possible Transformation – Strahil Delliyski – DOI 10.55206/OXTT8252 – 7

Manufactured Identities: Algorithmic Amplification and Foreign Information Manipulation in Post-Communist Democracies –  Svetoslav Malinov – DOI 10.55206/HTNQ4230 – 28

Communication Tactics and Tools of Political Discourse Used  by the Far-right Parties and the Status quo elites in the European Union –  Theodoros Vaniotis – DOI 10.55206/TPBW9900 – 43

Feminization as a Factor in the Communication Transformation of European Monarchies – Tsvetelina Uzunova – DOI 10.55206/VKAU6753 –  53 

Media and Internet Communication

On the Contemporary Media Pharmakon – Simeon Vasilev – DOI 10.55206/KJTY8594 –  66

Youth Audiences in the News Ecosystem: A Literature Review of Trends and Research Approaches – Stella Angova – DOI 10.55206/JIIC2018 – 73

Post-truth and the Crisis of Public Reason: the Role of Public Media – Steliana Koleva – DOI 10.55206/IOEP7106 – 88

Sensitising Students to Culturally Conditioned Online Behaviour by Employing Cyber Ethnography – Nikolina Tsvetkova –  DOI 10.55206/ZNLX5874 – 108

Communication Techniques and Distinctive Features of Disinformation – Iliyana Marinkova – DOI 10.55206/LHRC9411 – 123

Publishing information

Issue 68, July 2026

Rhetoric and Communications Journal

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Ivanka Mavrodieva, DSc

Publisher: Institute of Rhetoric and Communications

ISSN 1314-4464

Website in Bulgarian: https://rhetoric.bg/

Website in English: http://journal.rhetoric.bg/

E-mails: editors@rhetoric.bg, info@rhetoric.bg, journal.rhetoric.bg@gmail.com

Proofreader and Editor in Bulgarian: Nadia Kalacheva

Proofreader and Editor in English: Dara Tsvetkova

Prepress: “ITI” Publishing House

Issue 68 of the Rhetoric and Communications Journal (July 2026) is published with the financial support of the Scientific Research Fund, Contract No. KP-06-NP7/23 of December 08, 2025.