conflict & communication online, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2021
www.cco.regener-online.de
ISSN 1618-0747

Wassilios Baros, Aida Delic & Themistoklis Moutsisis
The media discourse on Greek reparation claims from World War II

This paper analyses the media discourse on Greek reparations claims from the Second World War and presents initial findings on characteristics of German and Austrian conflict reporting. Based on 361 articles from German and Austrian newspapers during three study periods (2015-2019), six latent styles of media coverage could be identified, representing different patterns of broaching the issue of the reparations conflict. It is shown that the violation of the principles of constructive conflict coverage in the case of this conflict results from a discursive articulation practice which makes it difficult to reveal contradictions and the different interests of the conflicting parties at an early stage.

The authors:

Wassilios Baros is Professor of educational research at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg and heads the project group Empirical Migration Research (PREMISA). His research interests include migration and political education research, latent style analyses of communication cultures, and recipient research.
Address: FB Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Salzburg, Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 1, 5020 Salzburg
eMail: Wassilios.Baros@sbg.ac.at

Aida Delic is university assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of educational sciences at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Her research focuses on educational migration research, native language instruction and biographical education processes in the context of migration.
Address: FB Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Salzburg, Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 1, 5020 Salzburg
eMail: aida.delic@sbg.ac.at

Themistoklis Moutsisis is PhD candidate at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg and member of the project group Empirical Migration Research (PREMISA). His research interests include intercultural education research, heterogeneity and multilingualism in schools and latent style analyses of communication cultures.
eMail: themistoklis.moutsisis@stud.sbg.ac.at