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THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE MEDIA:

EUROPE IN CRISIS
Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak and Michał Krzyżanowski (Eds)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
June 2009

This book contributes to the theoretical and policy debates on the existence and development of a European public sphere. The volume starts with a critical discussion of the links, between

media, history and politics in Europe by looking at the re-organisation of ideological and political determinants (such as Left-Right or East-West) and discussing the (non-)existence of a European editorial culture.

In the second part of the volume, it is examined how international crises have been debated in national media in Europe throughout the post war period. An empirical look casts light on the national media coverage of eight (8) 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 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.

This book presents original research conducted under the auspices of the EMEDIATE Research Programme funded by the European Commission, DG Research (for more: see http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/EMEDIATE/Index.shtml )


FIVE KEY POINTS ABOUT THIS BOOK

· An interdisciplinary analysis of the development of the European Public Sphere in the post war period
· A unique set of comparative studies looking at the medi a coverage of six international crisis events in different European countries
· A novel approach to the historical and diachronic analysis of the European Public Sphere
· The study of the European public sphere includes not only western but also central eastern European countries before and after 1989
· The book is written in accessible language and is aimed not only to an expert public but also to undergraduate or MA students

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