The article addresses the issue of political polarisation in the news media in Hungary. Hungary is an illustrative case of a country which has been studied as the example of high political parallelism in news media, and one of the most politically polarised societies in Europe. We contribute to the literature in a number of ways. First, to our knowledge, this is a pioneering study in the application of network analysis to measuring political polarisation in the news media. Second, we provide evidence that fragmentation and heavy partisanship do not necessarily lead to extreme polarisation. The study presents an issue-centred and context-based approach to assessing whether mass communication channels form integrated or divided news media spaces for public discussion. For an empirical test, we explore the news media networks of three of the most widely covered issues of 2014. To link a medium to another one, we concentrate on interactions, which are defined as explicit citations or hyperlinks to the content of other media products and the communication of politicians. The findings support the claim of moderate polarisation in the Hungarian news media. Although ideologically divergent blocs are detected, there are intensive interactions between news media outlets of different political colours.

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互动联系：匈牙利新闻媒体的两极分化因素和综合能力

这篇文章讨论了匈牙利新闻媒体的政治两极化问题。匈牙利是一个说明性的例子，该国已被研究为新闻媒体中高度政治平行的榜样，并且是欧洲政治上两极化最严重的社会之一。我们以多种方式为文学做出贡献。首先，据我们所知，这是将网络分析应用于衡量新闻媒体中政治两极分化的开创性研究。其次，我们提供的证据表明，分裂和严重的党派关系并不一定会导致极端分化。该研究提出了一种以问题为中心，基于情境的方法来评估大众传播渠道是形成整合的媒体媒体空间还是分开的新闻媒体空间，供公众讨论。为了进行实证检验，我们探索了2014年报道最广泛的三期的新闻媒体网络。为了将一种媒体与另一种媒体联系起来，我们专注于交互，这些交互被定义为对其他媒体产品的内容和政客沟通的明确引用或超链接。 。这些发现支持匈牙利新闻媒体的中等偏见。尽管发现了意识形态上不同的集团，但不同政治色彩的新闻媒体之间存在着密切的互动。