Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Πολιτική και διαδίκτυοLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Supervisors info:
Πλειός Γιώργος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης, ΕΚΠΑ
Χαραλάμπης Δημήτρης, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης, ΕΚΠΑ
Παπαναστασίου Νίκος, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Διαδίκτυο και εξωτερική πολιτική. Η περίπτωση της Συμφωνίας των Πρεσπών.
Translated title:
Foreign policy on the internet. The case of the Prespa Agreement.
Summary:
The Prespa Agreement is connected with the Macedonian issue, which has been a long-standing, controversial one within the Greek public sphere so far. It has been covered not only in an ethnocentric way in the Greek media, but furthermore in a strongly nationalistic one. Thus, the subject of the present effort is the study of the ideology and the discourse of Nationalism through their manifestations in the Greek journalistic sites concerning the Prespa Agreement. The main goal is first to trace the mainstream concepts about national identity, the “national other” and the relation between them in our sample; second, to detect the probable changes in the way new media covered the Macedonian issue recently in comparison with the way the old media have done during the previous years; third, to study the various conditions under which the representation of the Macedonian issue has been shaped in the Greek media.
According to the findings of our research, which is based on qualitative methods, there are some changes detected throughout our sample concerning the media coverage of the subject under investigation. Thus, the focus of our sample seems to move away from the cultural Nationalism towards the political Nationalism; from the crisis of national identity to the logic of approach between Greece and North Macedonia; from the concept of “national issues” to the concept of “national interest”; the coverage of the Macedonian issue not only as a binary one, but also as a subject of international interest. According to our analysis, the above changes are mainly attributed not to a profound transformation of the way media cover the foreign policy affairs in Greece so far, but to the fact that they have realized that the subject under investigation is not the proper one to demonstrate the ideology and the discourse of Nationalism through it anymore.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Prespa Agreement, Nationalism, foreign policy, internet
Number of references:
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