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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cengic, Drago
• Mijic, Ivana

Titel

How printed media re-construct Croatia's path to the EU: example of globus

Ist Teil von

• Društvena istraživanja, 2007-07, Vol.16 (4-5), p.653-675

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper the authors present findings of the content & discourse analysis based on the case of Croatian weekly magazine Globus, 2003-2005. The research was carried out with the aim to detect the modes of media re-construction of Croatia's accession to the European Union. Findings suggest the following conclusions. First, the overall analysis confirms that the topic of the full accession of Croatia to the European Union is indeed present in Croatian daily newspapers & magazine Globus. Second, with regard to the dominant discourses present in the articles published in Globus, three very distinguished discourses were identified: a) 'pro-European discourse' of the leading columnists & reviewers, b) 'bureaucratic discourse' of the EU-officials, & c) 'pro-European discourse' of Croatian officials, mostly members of the recent Croatian government & ruling parties. Third, the collected data support the thesis that -- according to the columnists & journalists of Globus -- the main problem for national actors in accession negotiations with the EU officials was how to accept, to apply & then to defend the 'modern concept of the state ruled by the law' within the public sphere. This is at the same time the main 'media frame' Globus' journalists & editors used for presenting the process of negotiations with the EU officials to the Croatian public. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.