'Regards: European Stories'. The representation of European diversities in the ARTE Magazine Show
(2024) MKVM13 20241Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication and Media
- Abstract
- The topic of the research is the representation of European diversities in the French-German cultural channel ARTE, specifically in its collection of documentaries from the Magazine Show ‘Regards: European Stories’, henceforth ‘Re: European Stories’ (2023-2024). By investigating the ways in which multiple dimensions of diversity - religion, politics, gender, ethnicity, race, disability, class and culture - are represented in the entirety of the collection, using qualitative content analysis, and in 8 sampled documentaries, adopting qualitative textual analysis, the thesis asks how the represented diversities relate to dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. It adopts the theoretical lenses of diversity studies and the... (More)
- The topic of the research is the representation of European diversities in the French-German cultural channel ARTE, specifically in its collection of documentaries from the Magazine Show ‘Regards: European Stories’, henceforth ‘Re: European Stories’ (2023-2024). By investigating the ways in which multiple dimensions of diversity - religion, politics, gender, ethnicity, race, disability, class and culture - are represented in the entirety of the collection, using qualitative content analysis, and in 8 sampled documentaries, adopting qualitative textual analysis, the thesis asks how the represented diversities relate to dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. It adopts the theoretical lenses of diversity studies and the media to analyse the context of ARTE, and the content of the documentaries, within a broader narrative of ‘European identity’. In this narrative, the ‘unity in diversity’ concept is used as a critical framework to investigate which stories are successfully represented in this European media.
The outcome of the research is that European diversities are represented in their intersectionality and superdiversity, frameworks that stress the understanding of those contexts as internally complex and heterogeneous, particularly because of migration as a recurrent and inherent factor in representing contemporary Europe. Precisely, intersectionality and superdiversity contribute to a representation of European diversities in ARTE as both in unity, when they portray inclusion and solidarity structures in Europe, and in diversity as difference, in regard to exclusion and discrimination between groups, problematizing the two directions that the ‘unity and diversity’ framework can embody in the study of European media. The resulting representation of a (super)diverse Europe, in relation to the multiple dimensions of diversity and their intersection, emerges at the interplay between ARTE, investigated as a pan-European media channel, and the realities represented in the documentaries, the latter emphasised as a non-fiction genre. While a clear European, or at least Eurofriendly, standpoint emerges in the analysis, the overall representation of European diversities challenge, if not combat, homogenising or nationalist understanding of Europe, and rather promotes a nuanced and holistic understanding of diversities. (Less)
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- Filippone, Kaoru LU
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- course
- MKVM13 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- diversity, Europe, inclusion, exclusion, solidarity, European identity, pan-European media, unity in diversity, superdiversity, migration
- language
- English
- id
- 9151574
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abstract = {{The topic of the research is the representation of European diversities in the French-German cultural channel ARTE, specifically in its collection of documentaries from the Magazine Show ‘Regards: European Stories’, henceforth ‘Re: European Stories’ (2023-2024). By investigating the ways in which multiple dimensions of diversity - religion, politics, gender, ethnicity, race, disability, class and culture - are represented in the entirety of the collection, using qualitative content analysis, and in 8 sampled documentaries, adopting qualitative textual analysis, the thesis asks how the represented diversities relate to dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in European societies. It adopts the theoretical lenses of diversity studies and the media to analyse the context of ARTE, and the content of the documentaries, within a broader narrative of ‘European identity’. In this narrative, the ‘unity in diversity’ concept is used as a critical framework to investigate which stories are successfully represented in this European media.
The outcome of the research is that European diversities are represented in their intersectionality and superdiversity, frameworks that stress the understanding of those contexts as internally complex and heterogeneous, particularly because of migration as a recurrent and inherent factor in representing contemporary Europe. Precisely, intersectionality and superdiversity contribute to a representation of European diversities in ARTE as both in unity, when they portray inclusion and solidarity structures in Europe, and in diversity as difference, in regard to exclusion and discrimination between groups, problematizing the two directions that the ‘unity and diversity’ framework can embody in the study of European media. The resulting representation of a (super)diverse Europe, in relation to the multiple dimensions of diversity and their intersection, emerges at the interplay between ARTE, investigated as a pan-European media channel, and the realities represented in the documentaries, the latter emphasised as a non-fiction genre. While a clear European, or at least Eurofriendly, standpoint emerges in the analysis, the overall representation of European diversities challenge, if not combat, homogenising or nationalist understanding of Europe, and rather promotes a nuanced and holistic understanding of diversities.}},
author = {{Filippone, Kaoru}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{'Regards: European Stories'. The representation of European diversities in the ARTE Magazine Show}},
year = {{2024}},
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