The European public sphere and the Media : Europe in crisis

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 post war 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.

Introduction; M.Krzyżanowski, A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak PART I: EUROPE AND THE MEDIA AT TIMES OF CRISES: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Europe – Discourse – Politics – Media – History: Constructing 'crises'?; B.Stråth& R.Wodak Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere; P.Preston & M.Metykova PART II: CRISES EVENTS AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE IN POST WAR MEDIA DEBATES Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War II; J.Kaye The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media; A.Kovács, A.Horváth, N.Kinsky-Müngersdorff The Berlin Wall crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe; H.Schulz-Forberg Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe; H.Schulz-Forberg 'Progressive' Versus 'Bureaucratic' Socialism: How the Myth of Socialism Was Split in Two in the Yugoslav Press Coverage of the Warsaw Pact's Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968; P.Krasovec & I.Z.Zagar The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 'State of War' in European Press; M.Krzyżanowski The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse; J.ter Wal, A.Triandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou Europe's role in the World: The Invasion of Iraq and the Outbreak of the Second Gulf War; J.ter Wal, A. riandafyllidou, C.Steindler& M.Kontochristou The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis: The Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere; J.ter Wal, A.Triandafyllidou, C.Steindler& M.Kontochristou Conclusions: Europe, Media, Crisis and the European Public Sphere; M.Krzyżanowski, A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak Bibliography