The European Financial and Refugee/Immigrant Crises in the Press: Similarities and Differences of the Greek and German Public Spheres

Authors

  • Stamatis Poulakidakos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
  • Christos Frangonikolopoulos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38716

Keywords:

public sphere, Greece, Germany, content analysis, refugee crisis, financial crisis, Europe

Abstract

Having as theoretical basis the notion of the public sphere and its manifestations within the EU, the current paper seeks to trace similarities and differences in the public discourse developed in German and Greek news sites, regarding the financial and refugee crises. Our quantitative content analysis shows that there are both similarities and differences in the two distinct public spheres, regarding the evaluation of the EU, its policies on the aforementioned issues and the ways in which the public discourse is being articulated mainly on behalf of politicians and journalists, who appear to be the main carriers of the public discourse in the media under scrutiny.

Author Biographies

Stamatis Poulakidakos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Stamatis Poulakidakos is Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He has worked as Lecturer at Bournemouth University. He is specialized in media monitoring, propaganda and quantitative content analysis. He has published two books and several papers on political communication, propaganda, social media and the public sphere, political advertisements, social movements and other media related issues.

Christos Frangonikolopoulos

Christos Frangonikolopoulos is Professor of International Relations at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of Aristotle University Thessa-loniki. He is the Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration (2016- http://jeanmonnetchair.jour.auth.gr) and Director of the MA in Digital Media, Communication and Journalism (http://media.jour.auth.gr). In Greece, he is the co-author of the books Global Politics, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Greek Foreign Policy and the Media, Cosmopolitan Democracy, Greek Foreign Policy and the Media, and the Democratic Deficit of the European Union. Abroad he is the editor, author/co-author of over 40 chapters/papers in edited volumes and peer reviewed journals.

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How to Cite

Poulakidakos, S., & Frangonikolopoulos, C. (2019). The European Financial and Refugee/Immigrant Crises in the Press: Similarities and Differences of the Greek and German Public Spheres. Global Media Journal - German Edition, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38716

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019): Spring/Summer 2019

Section

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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