Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU

Tao Papaioannou is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. She co-edited a special issue of Cyprus Review on media representation and the 2013 financial and political crises in Cyprus (Spring 2015) and Media Studies on critical insights in European media literacy research and policy (December 2012). Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK.

1. Introduction: Articulating Grievances, Identities and Agency: Critical Issues in Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU



Tao Papaioannou



PART I Constructing Grievances



2. Discursive Constructions of the Anti-Water Charges Protest Movement in Ireland

Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux and Amanda Haynes



3. Crisis, Labour and Education: Media Discourse and Anti-Austerity Protest in Ital

Lorenzo Zamponi



4. "It is Not the Time for Intifada": a Framing and Semiotic Analysis of Televised Representations of the 2013 Cypriot Protests



Dimitra Milioni and Maria Avraamidou



PART II Group Identification



5. Solidarity or Antagonism? An Analysis of German News Media Reporting on Anti-Austerity Protests in Greece



Yannis Theocharis and Stefanie Walter



6. The 2015 Greek Bailout Referendum as a Protest Action: an Analysis of Media Representations of the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Campaigns

Vasilis Manavopoulos and Vasiliki Triga



7. Anti-Austerity Protests, Brexit and Britishness in the News



Ruth Sanz Sabido and Stuart Price



PART III Articulating Agency



8. Mass Media, New Resistance and Mass Media: a Digital Ethnographic Analysis of the Hart Boven Hard Movement in Belgium



Ico Maly



9. The Mediation of the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Protest Cycle: Media Coverage and its Impact



Guya Accornero



10. Transnational Solidarity and Anti-Austerity Campaigning for European Political Change



Helen Yanacopulos



11. Conclusion: Media-Framing Analysis, One-Word Framing and ‘Austerity’

Suman Gupta