This is who You are
(2012) EUHR18 20121European Studies
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Printed media is a source of information widely available in society. In Denmark, hoarse political attitudes toward immigration created a climate of hostility which at the same time is reflected in the printed media, not only as a communication of what politicians say and do, but as a tone , perspective and angle when reporting. This culminated in 2005 with the publication of 12 cartoons criticizing Islam.
I argue that there is a collective conscience being created constantly through printed media which can be shown in the case study of Jyllands-Posten as it carves an image of the immigrant disseminated in Danish society. Furthermore, there is a difference in the process of the depiction of the immigrant before the Cartoon Crisis which... (More) - Printed media is a source of information widely available in society. In Denmark, hoarse political attitudes toward immigration created a climate of hostility which at the same time is reflected in the printed media, not only as a communication of what politicians say and do, but as a tone , perspective and angle when reporting. This culminated in 2005 with the publication of 12 cartoons criticizing Islam.
I argue that there is a collective conscience being created constantly through printed media which can be shown in the case study of Jyllands-Posten as it carves an image of the immigrant disseminated in Danish society. Furthermore, there is a difference in the process of the depiction of the immigrant before the Cartoon Crisis which reflects
the tension towards them and after the crisis with a less stressful approach, turning ‘the immigrant’ into which is friendlier actor in Danish society in 2006. (Less)
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- author
- Fog, Lina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EUHR18 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- collective memory, identity, Jyllands-Posten, Cartoon crisis, social imaginary, printed media
- language
- English
- id
- 3173582
- date added to LUP
- 2013-03-06 13:17:20
- date last changed
- 2015-12-14 13:23:22
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