The reproduction of structural power through discourses of delegitimation. The portrayal of the climate crisis in Italian newspapers

• Název práce v češtině: Reprodukce strukturální moci prostřednictvím diskurzů delegitimace. Zobrazení klimatické krize v italských novinách
• Název v anglickém jazyce: The reproduction of structural power through discourses of delegitimation. The portrayal of the climate crisis in Italian newspapers
• Klíčová slova: klimatická krize, kritická analýza diskurzu, debata o legitimizaci, budování autority, média
• Klíčová slova anglicky: climate crisis, critical discourse analysis, legitimation debate, authority building, media
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2021/2022
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra žurnalistiky (23-KZ)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Annamária Neag, D.Phil.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 04.02.2022
• Datum zadání: 04.02.2022
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 04.02.2022
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 16.09.2022 10:00
• Místo konání obhajoby: Hollar - Smetanovo nábřeží 6,Praha 1, H011, Hollar - místn. č. 011
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 31.07.2022
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 16.09.2022
• Oponenti: doc. PhDr. Alice Němcová Tejkalová, Ph.D.

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Předběžná náplň práce

Pro chápání environmentální krize je nezbytná legitimita. Vzhledem k tomu, že klimatická krize je dlouhodobým procesem, který lidé nemohou zažít přímo, musí novináři tuto mezeru zaplnit tím, že ji budou adekvátně reprezentovat. V tomto procesu si lidé, kteří mají znalosti a moc, zajišťují politická rozhodnutí tím, že legitimizují své činy a slova ve zpravodajských médiích. Tato studie zkoumá diskurzy legitimizace a zdroje užité k referování o klimatické krizi v článcích publikovaných v roce 2021 v italských zpravodajských médiích. Kritická analýza diskurzu osvětluje mechanismy zapojené do získávání diskurzivní legitimity: ideologii, hegemonii a moc. Vzájemná interakce těchto prvků pomáhá pochopit, které zdroje, novinářské postupy a diskurzy dosahují dominance při reprezentaci krize. Diskurzivní hegemonie v médiích je totiž schopna přesunout odpovědnost za krizi mimo zúčastněné aktéry a chránit jejich autoritu. Studie proto zkoumá, jakou moc mohou mít elitní aktéři ve vztahu s novináři při legitimizaci svého hegemonního postavení v médiích vytvářením konsenzuálního vnímání jejich jednání a názorů s cílem dosáhnout diskurzivní dominance v klimatické krizi.

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

When experiencing an environmental crisis, legitimacy is necessary. Since the climate crisis is a long-term process that human beings cannot experience directly, journalists must fill this gap by giving an adequate representation of it. In this process, the people who control knowledge and power secure political decisions by legitimising their actions and words in the news media. This study explores the legitimisation discourses, and the sources adopted to refer to the climate crisis in Italian news articles published in 2021. The critical discourse analysis illustrates the mechanisms involved in gaining discursive legitimacy: ideology, hegemony and power. These elements, interacting with each other, help to understand which sources, journalistic practices and discourses achieve dominance in the representation of a crisis. Discursive hegemony in the media is, in fact, able to shift responsibility for the crisis away from the agents involved, protecting their authority. The study, therefore, explores the power that elite actors can have in their relationship with journalists in legitimising their hegemonic position in the media, establishing a consensual perception of their actions and opinions to achieve discursive dominance in the climate crisis.