The European Public Sphere and the Media : Europe in Crisis

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. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Europe — Discourse — Politics — Media — History: Constructing ‘Crises’?....Pages 15-33 Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere....Pages 34-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War Two....Pages 53-82 The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media....Pages 83-114 The Berlin Wall Crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe....Pages 115-134 Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe....Pages 135-155 ‘Progressive’ versus ‘Bureaucratic’ Socialism: the Media Coverage of Prague 1968 in the ‘Other’ Europe....Pages 156-173 The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 ‘State of War’ in the European Press....Pages 174-197 The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-Oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse....Pages 198-218 Europe’s Role in the World: the Invasion of Iraq and the Outbreak of the Second Gulf War....Pages 219-238 The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis 2006: the Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere....Pages 239-260 Conclusions: Europe, Media, Crisis and the European Public Sphere....Pages 261-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-286 "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"--Jacket