Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis

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The changes triggered by the global financial crisis in 2008, the immigration flows and the covid-19 pandemic in contemporary societies have transformed the way individuals communicate, create content, and consume publicly available information.

Consequently, political, societal, and financial pressures have led to alternative forms of media practice and representations and disrupted the core relationships and dynamics between politics, journalism, and society.

This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.

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Crisis is a two-edged concept: if not used carefully, it masks the underlying nature of problems rather than contributing to their understanding. The edited volume Political Discourseand Media in Times of Crisis approaches the relationship between crisis, media and political discourse in a refreshingly complex way, through sharp conceptual analyses and informative case studies, offering an indispensable guide in a time when uses and abuses of crisis narratives are increasingly part of the public discourse Tamas Tofalvy, Associate Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communication, Hungary.

In an era when everything is changing, this book provides interesting questions about political rhetoric and media. The authors enlighten us with critical insights, research and case studies allowing the readers to better understand how a multifaceted crisis economic, social, geopolitical and health impacts media and political discourse, contributing to the wider discussion on crisis communication, political rhetoric and media LidaTsene, PhD, Teaching Associate, Open University of Cyprus, MA Communication and New Journalism, Cyprus.

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Emmanouil Takas is an instructor and postdoc researcher of Media, Political and Social psychology in the Department of Journalism and Media in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an instructor of communication at the Open University of Cyprus.

Sofia Iordanidou is an associate professor of Journalism and Communication at the Open University of Cyprus and the chairwoman of the Advanced Media Institute, Applied Research inCommunication and Journalism.

NaelJebrilis an associate professor in the Media Studies Program at the Doha Institute forGraduate Studies.