Scotland's Referendum and the Media: National and International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780748696598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 264 str.

Neil Blain; David Hutchison; Gerry Hassan

Opis

After the Referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country in September 2014 - and following a momentous mobilisation of voters by both the Yes and No campaigns - Scotland's political environment has been fundamentally energised. But how was the Referendum campaign reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world, and was it a matter of 'construction' rather than 'representation'?

In this book scholars, commentators and journalists from Britain, Europe and beyond examine how the media across the world presented the debate itself and the shifting nature of Scottish - and British - identity which that debate revealed. Several of the contributors also explore how the emphases and constructions which were put on the debate in their particular countries illuminated these countries' own responses to nationalism and separatism.

The consequences of the Referendum's No result are traced in the media through until the May general election of 2015.

Spis treści

Preface; Part One: The referendum in Scotland; 1.The Unexpected Campaign, James Mitchell; 2. The Media Landscape in Scotland, Neil Blain and David Hutchison; 3. Broadcasting and the Press: Some Key Moments, David Hutchison; 4. The ‘Community of the Communicators’: The Political Commentariat and the Independence Ref-erendum, Gerry Hassan; 5.The Scottish Press Account: Narratives of the Independence Referendum and its Aftermath, Marina Dekavalla; 6. Scottish TV Coverage of the Referendum Campaign, John Robertson; 7. ‘Liked’, ‘Shared’, Re-Tweeted: The Referendum Campaign on Social Media, Margot Buchanan; 8. Sport, Gender and National Identities, John Harris and Fiona Skillen; Part Two: Views from the UK; 9.English Television News Coverage of the Scottish Referendum, Andrew Tolson; 10. The English Press and the Referendum Peter Golding and Karen Williamson; 11. Wales, Devolution and the Scottish Independence Debate, Sian Powell; 12. Our friends across the water: Northern Ireland media coverage of the Scottish Independence Referendum, Anthea Irwin; Part Three: international perspectives; 13. ‘Knock on consequences’ - Irish media coverage of the Scottish referendum, Kevin Rafter; 14. Spain, Catalonia and the Scottish Referendum: A Study in Multiple Realities, Enric Castelló, Hugh O’Donnell and Fernando León-Solís; 15. The French View, Didier Revest; 16. The Scottish Referendum in Austrian, German, and Swiss Media, Klaus Peter Müller; 17. The Scottish Referendum: the view from Quebec, Catherine Côté; 18. The Scotland referendum in the English Language Canadian media, Christopher Waddell; 19. Australia and the Scottish independence referendum, Brian McNair; Afterword: Reimagining Scotland in a new political landscape, Neil Blain; Notes on Contributors.