CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Lehotai, Orsolya |
|---|---|
| Title | Civic Responsiveness to the Representations of Refugees in the Hungarian Governmental Media: Gendered 'Care' and 'Control' |
| Summary | This thesis is a theoretical and empirical exploration of 'moral(izing) spectatorship' (Chouliaraki 2016) in Hungary, which, I argue, comes about as a result of the governmental media coverage of the so-called 'refugee crisis' and constructs difference between the positions of the spectator and the 'distant sufferer.' The empirical media study and audience research are located at the intersection of three conceptual models: moral spectatorship and civic responsiveness, the processes of securitization and militarization, and critical discourse analysis. I analyzed the relationship between media and the reception of the media content and discourses based on five semi-structured interviews with activists from Szeged and Budapest whose participation can be understood as different forms of pro- democratic and non-democratic 'civic responsiveness.' My research is concerned with different non-moralizing forms of civic engagement and humanitarian discourse based on understanding different types of solidarity in order to interpret the ways in which the Hungarian 'spectator' feels compelled to act in relation to the mediated suffering that was reported by Hungarian media outlets during the summer-fall of 2015 and the Government’s constitution of 'difference' in the concept of 'migrant' through the construction of the Hungarian identity. |
| Supervisor | Barát, Erzsébet |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/lehotai_orsolya.pdf |
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