Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis

Edited by Sofia Iordanidou, Nael Jebril, Emmanouil Takas

Publication date:

04 April 2023

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839982828

The changes triggered by the global financial crisis in 2008, the immigration flows and the covid-19 pandemic in contemporary societies have transformed the way individuals communicate, create content, and ‘consume’ publicly available information. Consequently, political, societal, and financial pressures have led to alternative forms of media practice and representations and disrupted the core relationships and dynamics between politics, journalism, and society.

This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crisis. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.

List of Figures and Tables; Introduction Emmanouil Takas, Sofia Iordanidou and NaelJebril; Chapter 1. Conceptualising Crisis: Events, Crisis Processes and Collective Sense making Jamie Matthews; Chapter 2. A Reversed Narrative of Public Crisis: Xinhua’s Framing of Medical Experts in COVID-19 Pandemic Yu Xiang; Chapter 3. Representations and Social Influence in Political Discourse in Times of Crisis Emmanouil Takas and GerasimosProdromitis; Chapter 4. Fall of Circulation, Savage Oligopolisation and Downgrading of the Media: The Implications of Memoranda in the Greek Press Sofia Iordanidou and Leonidas Vatikiotis; Chapter 5. Elites versus the People? Tracing Populist Narrative through the Presentation of the Turkish Health Reform in Media Ays¸ecanKartal; Chapter 6. Disinformation and the Prespa Agreement: A Case Study LefterisKretsos and Valia Kaimaki; Chapter 7. Framing the Pandemic: Strategic Rhetoric in Political Elite Discourse during the COVID-19 Health Crisis Katerina Diamantaki and LemoniaMourka; Index

“Crisis is a two-edged concept: if not used carefully, it masks the underlying nature of problems rather than contributing to their understanding. The edited volume Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis approaches the relationship between crisis, media and political discourse in a refreshingly complex way, through sharp conceptual analyses and informative case studies, offering an indispensable guide in a time when uses and abuses of crisis narratives are increasingly part of the public discourse” —Tamas Tofalvy, Associate Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communication, Hungary.