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Online news about European Parliament elections 2009
Nikodem, Pavel ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The submitted Bachelor paper analyses media coverage of the European Parliament Elections in 2009 on special thematic webpages of Guardian (United Kingdom), Idnes (Czech Republic), IrishTimes (Ireland), DiePresse (Austria), Sme (Slovakia), Sueddeutsche (Germany) and Wyborcza (Poland). The work is based on quantitative media content analysis. Firstly, europeanization of media content is measured. The results show that news are framed prediminantly as a national event and that national actors in the news prevail. Secondly, the media organizations strategy towards the coverage of the EP elections are discussed based on the scale sacerdotal vs. pragmatic approach. Despite the second-order character of EP elections examples of sacerdotal approach are found. Thirdly, the concept of depolitization of politics in media contents is discussed. Results support the trend towards depolitization. Share of news featuring political programmes and candidates is limited compared with other types of news.
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Online news about European Parliament elections 2009
Nikodem, Pavel ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The submitted Bachelor paper analyses media coverage of the European Parliament Elections in 2009 on special thematic webpages of Guardian (United Kingdom), Idnes (Czech Republic), IrishTimes (Ireland), DiePresse (Austria), Sme (Slovakia), Sueddeutsche (Germany) and Wyborcza (Poland). The work is based on quantitative media content analysis. Firstly, europeanization of media content is measured. The results show that news are framed prediminantly as a national event and that national actors in the news prevail. Secondly, the media organizations strategy towards the coverage of the EP elections are discussed based on the scale sacerdotal vs. pragmatic approach. Despite the second-order character of EP elections examples of sacerdotal approach are found. Thirdly, the concept of depolitization of politics in media contents is discussed. Results support the trend towards depolitization. Share of news featuring political programmes and candidates is limited compared with other types of news.
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