THE FRAMING OF ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS’ SURPRISE RESULT IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA Cover Image

THE FRAMING OF ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS’ SURPRISE RESULT IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
THE FRAMING OF ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS’ SURPRISE RESULT IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Author(s): Andreea Alina Mogoș
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: media framing; presidential election; social construction of reality.

Summary/Abstract: Important media outlets from Europe and US reported on the Romanian Presidential elections and the surprise winner using similar frames: the competition between Victor Ponta and the Transylvanian German Klaus Iohannis, the other former Romanian leaders, corruption vs. justice, and the Romanian diaspora and protests. Nevertheless, cultural peculiarities marked each media discourse and its approach to the event.

  • Issue Year: 59/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 81-92
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English