The European public sphere and the media : Europe in crisis / edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak, Michał Krzyżanowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Triandafyllidou, Anna.

Wodak, Ruth, 1950-

Krzyżanowski, Michał.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics--Europe.

Communication in politics.

Mass media--Europe.

Mass media.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debates on the existence and development of a European public sphere. It presents a critical discussion of the links between media, history and politics in Europe by looking at the re-organization of ideological and political determinants (such as Left Right or East-West) and debating the existence of a European editorial culture. The volume also examines how international crises have been debated in national media in Europe throughout the postwar period. It looks empirically at the national media coverage of eight crisis events: the 1956 revolution in Budapest, the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the May 1968 youth revolt in Paris, the events of August 1968 in Prague, the declaration of a State of War in Poland in 1981, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the outbreak of the Second Gulf War in 2003, and the Mohammed cartoons crisis in 2006.

Contents:

Part I Europe and the Media at Times of Crisis: Theoretical Reflections 13

1 Europe - Discourse - Politics - Media - History: Constructing 'Crises'? / Bo Stråth, Ruth Wodak 15

2 Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere / Paschal Preston, Monika Metykova 34

Part II Crisis Events and the Idea of Europe in Post-War Media Debates 51

3 Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War Two / James Kaye 53

4 The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media / András Kovács, Anikó Horváth, Nadežda Kinsky-Müngersdorff 83

5 The Berlin Wall Crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe / Hagen Schulz-Forberg 115

6 Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe / Hagen Schulz-Forberg 135

7 'Progressive' versus 'Bureaucratic' Socialism: the Media Coverage of Prague 1968 in the 'Other' Europe / Primoz Krasovec, Igor Z. Žagar 156

8 The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 'State of War' in the European Press / Michał Krzyẓanowski 174

9 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-Oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse / Jessika ter Wal, Anna Triandafyllidou, Chiara Steindler, Maria Kontochristou 198

10 Europe's Role in the World: the Invasion of Iraq and the Outbreak of the Second Gulf War / Jessika ter Wal, Anna Triandafyllidou, Chiara Steindler, Maria Kontochristou 219

11 The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis 2006: the Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere / Jessika ter Wal, Anna Triandafyllidou, Chiara Steindler, Maria Kontochristou 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230210424

0230210422

OCLC:

294885548