https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:42:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-indignados-protests-in-the-spanish-and-greek-press-moving-beyond-the-protest-paradigm/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:50 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-indignados-protests-in-the-spanish-and-greek-press-moving-beyond-the-protest-paradigm/ Continued]]> The protests of the Indignados in Spain and their counterpart of Aganaktismeni in Greece have been the most vocal expression of civic discontent against the ways the Euro crisis has been handled by national governments and the Eurozone. This article studies how these protests have been covered in the mainstream press. Drawing upon the ‘protest paradigm’, which longstanding research has employed to describe the template and biased way protests have been traditionally covered, we have conducted content analysis of mainstream Spanish and Greek newspapers. We argue that the overall coverage moved beyond the protest paradigm. It adopted a more positive tone in reporting the protests, including the individual voices of the protesters and covering the performative aspects of the movement in positive terms. At the same time, however, the protests were overwhelmingly reported as a mere expression of resentment against the status quo rather than as offering valid political alternatives.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-doctor-said-i-suffer-from-vitamin-e-deficiency-investigating-the-multiple-social-functions-of-greek-crisis-jokes/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:37 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-doctor-said-i-suffer-from-vitamin-e-deficiency-investigating-the-multiple-social-functions-of-greek-crisis-jokes/ Continued]]> Research on political jokes has more often than not concentrated on their content, which is related to, and interpreted in view of, the sociopolitical events and contexts that have given rise to the jokes investigated each time. The present study intends to suggest that there are other aspects of political joke-telling that could be taken into consideration when exploring its social functions and goals: First, the subgenres employed by speakers to convey their humorous perspectives on political issues; and, second, speakers’ spontaneous comments on the jokes under scrutiny. The variety of subgenres could be related to the diverse ways joke-tellers perceive and encode their everyday problems and political views. Speakers’ spontaneous comments on the content and effects of jokes could reveal why they consider such texts tellable and recyclable, as well as how they evaluate them. The political jokes analyzed here come from a large corpus of humorous material about the current Greek debt crisis and its sociopolitical effects on the Greek society. The analysis reveals the multifunctionality of such jokes: They convey a critical perspective on the current sociopolitical conditions in Greece, strengthen the solidarity bonds among Greek speakers, entertain them, and bolster their morale.

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