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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2013

« Fighting Balkan Wars along the Grands Boulevards : antagonistic media narratives in French public space »

Nicolas Pitsos

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The Balkan Wars represent one of the most significant moments of the Eastern Question. Besides their controversial place within national historiographies and memorial debates, these events have also been characterized by contested stances regarding their immediate coverage, mainly within societies who were in apparent way exterior observers. The French national newspapers, whose headquarters were largely situated in the district of Grands Boulevards in Paris, were fascinated by these conflicts. Among these newspapers, some of them sent their own reporters in the Balkan Peninsula in order to have first hand news. This information was often biased by military censorship. But above all, it was heavily influenced by propaganda mechanisms activated by the States in war, political and ideological cleavages within French society, each journalist’s predispositions towards Balkan actors and his or her perception of French economical, political and cultural interests in the region. The patterns of belligerents’ stigmatization or idealization, the controversial use of images in order to praise or denounce one’s actor attitude, the language choices announcing different events, arranged information into mental structures, allowing journalists to deliver the ongoing conflict and its consequences to their fellow citizens in a comprehensible form. This paper aims at studying the various factors which influenced the treatment of events and the spreading of news in the French public space or imagined community, giving place to what Suzan Carruthers has defined in her work on the media at war, as more than one single media narratives.

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Nicolas Pitsos. « Fighting Balkan Wars along the Grands Boulevards : antagonistic media narratives in French public space ». The Centenary of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913): Contested Stances, Department of Internatioanl Relations, Middle East Technical University, May 2013, Ankara, Turkey. ⟨hal-03996195⟩
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