Słowa kluczowe: dark tourism, selfies, memory, consumption, trauma, digital narcissism, Umberto Eco, novel about a journalist, newspaper, tabloidisation, faction, media education, journalism studies, Latvia, history of communication research, post-socialist communication and media studies, longitudinal analysis, content analysis, Croatia, European Union, communication strategy, Polish citizens, expectations, public opinion poll, European Commission, e-government, Digital Single Market, extreme right, corpus linguistics, linguistic image of the world, gatekeeping, selecting sources of information, in-depth interviews, Internet, social media, political communication, micro-targeting, social emotions, populism, democracy, politics, political discourse, media