The Greek Financial Crisis: Discourses of Difference or Solidarity?

Abstract: The so-called Greek Financial Crisis, which has been the object of close attention in the German media since the end of 2009, has caused a public debate on who should be held responsible for the decline of crisis-hit Greece, the common currency and the Eurozone. The media’s enduring and controversial public discussion has lately been referred to as the Greek bashing. When the crisis had spread much further in 2012 and also other countries suffered from high debt, economic stagnation and unemployment, the news coverage became more moderate. This project report highlights the role of medial discourses of difference and solidarity during the crisis. Therefore, we rely on an exemplary data-set that does not only take the development of the German media’s tenor on the Greek Crisis into consideration, but also adds an international perspective in order to compare the medial treatment of different countries involved. The study methodologically focuses on the analysis of (metaphorical).... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/704

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
The Greek Financial Crisis: Discourses of Difference or Solidarity? ; volume:13 ; number:3 ; day:03 ; month:05 ; year:2014
Journal of social science education ; 13, Heft 3 (03.05.2014)

Creator
Bickes, Hans
Otten, Tina
Weymann, Laura Chelsea

DOI
10.4119/jsse-704
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011816290133363832
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Bickes, Hans
  • Otten, Tina
  • Weymann, Laura Chelsea

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