Towards a European Identity? The News Media and The Case of Climate Change  

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Olausson, Ulrika

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: European Journal of Communication vol. 25 no. 2 (2010), page 138-152.
Topik: Climate Change; European Identity; Ideology Critique; News Media; Political Power
Fulltext: 138.full.pdf (338.34KB)

Isi artikel

Much research on the discursive construction of Europe in national news media has quantitatively focused on the presence of ‘EU topics’. The more frequently EU topics appear, the better the breeding-ground for a sense of European community, it is argued. This article tackles the question of a European identity from a different angle. Guided by theories on collective identity and power, and utilizing qualitative discourse analysis of the reporting on climate change in a tabloid newspaper and public service television news in Sweden, this article discerns a budding European political identity, discursively embedded and ‘hidden’ in the reporting as the natural order of things. When turned into common-sense knowledge, the European realm as a representative of ‘Us’ is accorded spontaneous legitimacy as a relevant political power in the making of meaning on climate change.

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