The European Public Sphere and the Media

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Michał Krzyżanowski, Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak

      Pages 1-12

3. Europe and the Media at Times of Crisis: Theoretical Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Europe — Discourse — Politics — Media — History: Constructing ‘Crises’?

      • Bo Stråth, Ruth Wodak

      Pages 15-33

   3. Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere

      • Paschal Preston, Monika Metykova

      Pages 34-49

4. Crisis Events and the Idea of Europe in Post-War Media Debates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War Two

      • James Kaye

      Pages 53-82

   3. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media

      • András Kovács, Anikó Horváth, Nadežda Kinsky-Müngersdorff

      Pages 83-114

   4. The Berlin Wall Crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe

      • Hagen Schulz-Forberg

      Pages 115-134

   5. Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe

      • Hagen Schulz-Forberg

      Pages 135-155

   6. ‘Progressive’ versus ‘Bureaucratic’ Socialism: the Media Coverage of Prague 1968 in the ‘Other’ Europe

      • Primoz Krasovec, Igor Z. Žagar

      Pages 156-173

   7. The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 ‘State of War’ in the European Press

      • Michał Krzyżanowski

      Pages 174-197

   8. The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-Oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse

      • Jessika ter Wal, Anna Triandafyllidou, Chiara Steindler, Maria Kontochristou

      Pages 198-218

   9. 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

      Pages 219-238

   10. The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis 2006: the Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere

       • Jessika ter Wal, Anna Triandafyllidou, Chiara Steindler, Maria Kontochristou

       Pages 239-260

   11. Conclusions: Europe, Media, Crisis and the European Public Sphere

       • Michał Krzyżanowski, Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak

       Pages 261-268

5. Back Matter

   Pages 269-286

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This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debate on the existence of a European public sphere. It presents a critical discussion of the links between media, history and politics in Europe today, examining the re-organization of ideological and political dimensions and debates the existence of a European editorial culture.

• european union politics

• Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

  Anna Triandafyllidou

• Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens, Greece

  Anna Triandafyllidou

• Lancaster University, UK

  Ruth Wodak

• Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK

  Michał Krzyżanowski

• School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

  Michał Krzyżanowski

ANIKÓ V HORVÁTH is currently a PhD student at the department of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary JAMES KAYE is a project coordinator at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and key researcher at the Ludwig Boltzman Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna NADEZDA KINSKY is a PhD student at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna PRIMOZ KRASOVEC is Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Education, Ljubljana and a PhD student of sociology of everyday life at Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana MONIKA METYKOVA is a research associate at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK HAGEN SCHULZ-FORBERG is Assistant Professor in International History at the University of Aarhus, Denmark BO STRÅTH is Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor of Nordic, European and World History at Helsinki University, Finland JESSIKA TER WAL is Assistant Professor in Communication Sciences at the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands IGOR Z. ZAGAR is Senior Research Fellow and head of the Center for Discourse Studies, at the Educational Research Institute, and Professor in Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia

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