MEDIJSKA REPREZENTACIJA I HUMANIZAM NA MEDITERANU: PROMIŠLJANJE O DRAMI, OTPORNOSTI I NADI
MEDIA REPRESENTATION AND HUMANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: A REFLECTION ON DRAMA, RESILIENCE AND HOPE

Summary/Abstract: This article develops a critical reflection on the contemporary media representation of the Mediterranean and its progressive dissociation from the humanist legacy historically shaped along its shores. The dominant narrative constructed by news media and digital platforms largely revolves around violence, armed conflict, forced migration, radicalization, and social precariousness. This partial perspective produces a “communicative dysmorphia” that distorts Mediterranean reality and renders invisible its cultural plurality, shared historical trajectories, and the dynamics of resistance and resilience that have nourished humanist thought since Classical Antiquity.The paper reviews the philosophical roots of Greek humanism—with particular attention to Socrates, Plato, and the critical tradition that places the human being at the center of knowledge—as well as the decisive Arab and Islamic contributions to the transmission and expansion of this intellectual heritage. From this perspective, the hegemony of an exclusively Eurocentric humanism is questioned, and the colonial construction of the “other” is problematized. Drawing on authors such as Braudel, Mon- taigne, Morin, Foucault and, in a central way, Edward Said, the article analyzes the relationship between discourse, power, and identity, highlighting the role of media narratives in shaping social imaginaries. Finally, the need to recover a humanist journalism is proposed, understood as an ethical practice oriented toward the centrality of the person, intercultural openness, and the strengthening of critical citizenship. In a context marked by media concentration and democratic fragility, the article argues that plurality of voices, a gender perspective, and ethical reflection are essential to reconstruct an inclusive Mediterranean narrative capable of articulating shared horizons of social justice in the digital age.

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