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Type of Publication: | Working Paper/Technical Report |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-5601 |
Author: | Hamdorf, Dorothea |
Year of publication: | 2000 |
Series: | Diskussionsbeiträge der Projektgruppe Friedensforschung ; 51 |
Summary: |
As a result of the 'cold war culture', war became a permanent item on the political agenda and could be consumed as part of everyday entertainment. In news media the result was a type of conflict coverage, which contributes to conflict escalation by means of propaganda techniques.
Knowing about the media's impact on reality construction and opinion making, a type of journalism is demanded, which portrays reality entirely and truthfully, and which overcomes antagonism. Accordingly, the present study focuses on the media's potential contribution to peace building in war-torn societies. We test the hypotheses according to which (a) a de-escalation oriented reporting style is part of the journalist's repertoir (individual presupposition) and (b) peace on the political agenda allows this de-escalation oriented reporting style to emerge (environmental presupposition). A representative article which looked promising in terms of constructive coverage of the Northern Ireland peace treaty at first glance, was analyzed. The results demonstrate that de-escalation oriented reporting exists, but it is still far from being peace journalism. Though reality is still described incompletely, the article compromises a fundamental characteristic of escalation oriented discourse: the indignation of the conflict parties against each other. |
Subject (DDC): | 150 Psychology |
Controlled Keywords (GND): | Friedensforschung, Medienforschung, Nordirland |
Keywords: | Friedensjournalismus, Peace Research, Media Research, Northern Ireland, Peace Journalism |
Link to License: | In Copyright |
HAMDORF, Dorothea, 2000. Reduced view of a multidimensional reality : the Northern Ireland peace treaty in Berliner Zeitung - an example of peace journalism?
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