This is who You are
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Summary, in 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 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.
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.
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Publishing year
2012
Language
English
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Document type
Student publication for Master's degree (two years)
Topic
- Social Sciences
Keywords
- collective memory
- identity
- Jyllands-Posten
- Cartoon crisis
- social imaginary
- printed media
Supervisor
- Tomas Sniegon