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- Aitaki, Georgia, 1986-
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All good people have debts : Framing the Greek crisis in television fiction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Crisis and the media. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027200341 - 9789027264428 ; , s. 107-126
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Building on the notion of the Greek crisis as a discursive event and revisiting theories about the sociocultural role of television fiction, this chapter introduces the latter as a framing mechanism through which events of the social world are defined and assessed. By uncovering the dominant interpretative frames underlying the story, setting, characters and plot of the popular Greek television comedy Piso Sto Spiti (MEGA channel, 2011–2013), this analysis illustrates television fiction’s contribution to the construction of the root causes of the crisis as tied to the cultural traits of Greeks, the impossibility of change and the futility of an alternative, left-wing consideration of the crisis, as well as an attempt to morally assess the situation at hand.
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- Aitaki, Georgia, 1986-
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Domesticating pathogenies, evaluating change : The Eurozone crisis as a ‘hot moment’ in Greek television fiction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Media Culture and Society. - London : Sage Publications. - 0163-4437 .- 1460-3675. ; 40:7, s. 957-972
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how the Eurozone crisis is thematically negotiated in a popular Greek television comedy. Inspired by the increasing interest in the ideological role of news media during the Eurozone crisis of the late 2000s, it turns the spotlight on the sphere of entertainment in an attempt to address the importance of fictional mediations and meaning-making processes. To that end, it proposes an understanding of television fiction as an accommodator and shaper of ‘hot moments’, instigating processes of self-assessment and evaluation of change. More specifically, the study examines the ways in which the family comedy Piso sto Spiti (MEGA Channel, 2011–2013) provides culturally based understandings of the Eurozone crisis by depicting it as associated with inherent flaws of the modern Greek and by assessing the possibility of change through a juxtaposition with national ‘others’. At the same time, it identifies ways that ideology leaks from television fiction in its interaction with other media discourses simultaneously circulating within a society.
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- Aitaki, Georgia, 1986-
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The Private Life of a Nation in Crisis : A Study on the Politics in/of Greek Television Fiction
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The private life of a nation in crisis offers in-depth studies of the fictional reconstruction and negotiation of moments of heightened societal tension that take place throughout the life of a nation. Its constituent papers focus on the role of television fiction in representing and shaping either critical moments, events, or periods that disrupt the normal pace of life, or unresolved societal tensions that become part of everyday life. What is more, the papers investigate the socio-cultural consequences of representations, in terms of the interpretative lenses television fiction provides for understanding the events as such. The empirical focus is placed on television fiction produced and broadcast in Greece, a country that has recently received a large share of publicity because of its protagonistic role in the late 2000s Eurozone crisis and, at the same time, a media landscape with multiple aspects that still remain uncharted. The thesis contains case studies from different periods of Greek television fiction, from 1989 – the year of the launch of the first private channels in Greece – onwards, in an attempt to connect the overall project to the production context characterizing commercial television, another aspect of European television in the process of continuous exploration. Through a close analysis of specific television programmes, as well as a complementary study of the production culture of private television in Greece, this thesis aspires to contribute to the general question regarding the role of the media in critical, uncertain, or tumultuous times, with an emphasis on television fiction’s potential to recode their meaning and to reflect back on society.
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- Ekström, Mats, 1961, et al.
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The voice of ‘the people’ in news discourse: a cross-cultural study of populism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the 68th annual conference for International Communication Association, 24-28 May, Prague.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The constructions of antagonistic relationships between ‘the elite’ and ‘the people’; and the related homogenization and fictionalization of peoples’ voices have been defined as characteristic for of populist discourse. Detailed analyses of such discourses are however missing. Drawing on discourse- and conversation analysis, this paper contributes to a comparative cross cultural study of how citizens’ voices are homogenized and diversified on the news. More specifically we analyze two generic practices: (1) The contextualization of vox pops; how citizen´s voices are categorized and made meaningful through headlines, voice overs and edited soundbites. (2) The third party references to citizens in the design of questions in political interviews. Data includes radio and television news from France, Greece, Sweden and UK in election campaigns in 2014 and 2017. The study shows generic patterns as well as significant differences in how peoples’ voices are represented in the context of the prevalent populist discourses across Europe.
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