Representing the Other in European Media Discourses
What is it about?
This book deals with the construction of the ‘other’ in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU needs to tackle new challenges, particularly terror attacks, refugees, global political uncertainty and economic inequality. Drawing on data from British, Polish, French, Czech, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Estonian contexts, the individual papers investigate how various social groupings – regions, nations, ethnicities, communities, cultures – are discursively constructed as ‘outsiders’ rather than ‘insiders’, as ‘them’ rather than ‘us’.
Why is it important?
The aim of the book is to document the diverse discursive forms of othering, ranging from differentiation to discrimination, that are directed against various ‘other Europeans’ in both institutionalized media and such non-elite semi-public contexts as discussion forums and citizen blogs.