Political Communication in Times of Crisis

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Oscar G. Luengo (Hg.), Political Communication in Times of Crisis (2016), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832594244

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Description / Abstract

So far, during the 21th century, we have witnessed many unprecedented events that have produced irreversible historical changes. The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City, the resulting sequence of wars in the Middle East, and the international financial collapse are examples of such events. They have subsequently led to a new dimension of political communication and reoriented some of its traditional meanings, due to the eruption of a new dynamic in our lives: crisis.

The dynamic of crisis introduced significant changes and altered the nature of international relations, the processes of policy making, the governmental performances, the citizen's demands, the electoral campaigns, and the geographical tensions, among others. The revolutionary wave of protests, riots and civil wars in the Arab world starting in 2010 (Arab spring); the waves of human asylum seekers as a direct consequence of this reality; the so-called colour revolutions that overthrew governments in Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Lebanon; the territorial conflict between Russia and Ukraine; the intensification of the anti-globalisation movements; the conflict between Israel and Palestine, one of the hardest and longest conflicts to date that has been repeatedly reactivated; theterrorist attacks in Madrid, London, Boston and Paris; or the recent global threat created by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS); all this results in an unprecedented realm of political communication.

These topics are treated in this volume through the lens of political communication by 30 international contributors from almost 10 different nationalities.

Table of content

  • BEGINN
  • 1. Mastering Minds: the Fortunes of Political Propaganda
  • 2. Failed communication leads to crisis or crisis leads to failed communication?
  • 3. Between political cultures: the European elections and Portugal in time of crisis
  • 4. Experimental Test of Motivated Reasoning: Attitudes towards the Czech Presidents
  • 5. Between participation and populism. Crisis, political parties and new movements in the Italian public sphere
  • 6. Media coverage in times of crisis: a comparative study in different European contexts
  • 7. The Dialectic on International Relations and Political Communication: The Impact of the Financial Crisis Upon the Nation Image of Germany; A Comparative Analysisin Greek and UK Press
  • 8. Framing discourse during the Lampedusa crisis: Victims and intruders in the Spanish press
  • 9. The coverage of Corruption in Brazil and Spain
  • 10. Crying politician 2.0. Construction of political soap opera in new media
  • 11. Global crisis - national protests. How transnational was the online communication of the Occupy and Acampada indignation movements?
  • 12. Political Information on Twitter: #elezioni2013 and the role of gatekeeper citizens
  • 13. Handling the Eurozone Crisis on Twitter Comparing Germany†™s and Spain†™s Political Online Agendas
  • 14. Social networks: a space for political efficacy or cynicism? A case study of 2011 Spanish Electoral Campaign
  • 15. Communicating public security crisis in Mexico: A comparison between Felipe Calderà³n and Enrique Peà±a Nieto
  • 16. The Origins of the Crimean Crisis: Political Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict in Crimea Until February 2014
  • 17. Enforcing “Humanitarian Wars†: A Case of Communication Mismanagement

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