Ukraine and the Big Moral Divide: What Biased Media Coverage Means to East European Borders
Ukraine and the Big Moral Divide: What Biased Media Coverage Means to East European Borders
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乌克兰和巨大的道德鸿沟：有偏见的媒体报道对东欧边境意味着什么
作者：
M. Barthel;Hans
摘要地缘政治的变化和欧盟邻国边界的重要性变化通常被理解为国际权力政治问题。伴随地缘政治对边界影响的因素，如媒体对地缘政治变化的报道，往往显得次要或无关紧要。然而，最近的乌克兰冲突揭示了相反的情况，因为亲欧盟的态度得到了“西方”媒体的强烈支持。因此，本文试图澄清新闻媒体在创造地缘政治变化和欧洲边界的重要性的观点和态度的作用。德国新闻来源对不断演变的乌克兰危机的报道的经验证据表明，媒体是有偏见的框架和诽谤的推动者，这表明欧盟是其东部邻国新演变的地缘战略对抗中的潜在冲突方。调查结果表明，在乌克兰危机的关键时期，媒体报道将欧洲和“西方”作为“良好事业”的捍卫者的欣快情绪与过度的道德两极分化和升级言论的话语正常化结合起来。对两极世界（西方对俄罗斯）和新冷战的想象为人们对欧洲边界和邻国关系的新理解奠定了基础，认为它们可以随意操纵。
ABSTRACT Geopolitical shifts and the changing significance of borders in the EU’s neighbourhood are usually understood as a matter of international power politics. Factors that accompany geopolitical impact on borders, such as media coverage of geopolitical change, often appear as secondary or irrelevant. However the recent Ukraine conflict revealed the contrary as pro-EU attitudes were strongly supported by ‘western’ media. Therefore this paper seeks to clarify the role of news media in creating perspectives and attitudes on geopolitical shifts and the significance of European borders. Empirical evidence on the coverage of the evolving Ukraine crisis by German news sources portrays the media as promoters of biased framings and imaginaries which suggest that the EU be a potential conflict party in the newly evolving geostrategic confrontation in its eastern neighbourhood. The findings indicate that during critical periods of the Ukraine crisis media reports combined rising euphoria about Europe and ‘the West’, as defenders of the ‘good cause’, with excessive moral polarising and the discursive normalisation of a rhetoric of escalation. Imaginaries of a bipolar world (The West against Russia) and a new Cold War prepared the ground for a new understanding of European borders and neighbourhood relations as being manipulable at will.