Discourses of Legitimation in the News - The Case of the Economic Crisis in Greece

List of contents

List of figures and tables
Introduction: assumptions and foundations, Vaia Doudaki
1. The economic crisis in Greece: short account of events and actors, Angeliki Boubouka
2. Media and representations of the economic crisis, Angeliki Boubouka and Vaia Doudaki
3. Discourses of legitimation in the news: concepts and dimensions, Vaia Doudaki
4. Analysing discourse: legitimation and its mechanisms in the Greek bailout news, Vaia Doudaki
Concluding reflections, Vaia Doudaki
Index

About the author

Vaia Doudaki works as a senior researcher at Charles University in Prague. In the past, she worked as an associate professor at Uppsala University, and as a lecturer and assistant professor at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research is situated in the fields of alternative media studies, journalism studies, and discourse studies. Her latest book (co-edited with Nico Carpentier) is Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, materialities and cultures (2018).
Angeliki Boubouka is a professional journalist and an independent media researcher. She has been practicing journalism for print and online media in Greece, since 1993. She has also worked as a research associate for the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at Cyprus University of Technology. Her work on the news framing of the economic crisis in Greece and in Cyprus has been published in Journalism and in European Journal of Communication.

Summary

Using news coverage of the economic crisis in Greece, this book develops a framework for identifying discourses of legitimation of political decisions and policies in the news.

Product details

• Authors: Angeliki Boubouka, Vaia Doudaki, Vaia Boubouka Doudaki
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367183943
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18394-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies; Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Greece, Press & journalism, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Media studies: Journalism