breaking news – crisis as peripety in strategic narratives
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Breaking News – Crisis as peripety in Strategic Narra4ves
Crossing Boundaries in Crisis Communica0on, October 2-‐5, 2013 Sascha Stoltenow
The Idea
„Besides which, the most powerful elements of emo0onal interest in Tragedy – Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situa0on, and Recogni0on scenes – are parts of the plot.“ Aristotle, Poe0cs
The theore4cal sources
Systems Theory, Luhmann and Baecker Discourse Theory, Foucault Network Theory, Harrison White
The model
Social systems = discourse Inten0on and purpose = strategic narra0ves Crisis = peripety
The case
The strategic narra0ve of the German Government on the military engagement in Afghanistan: -‐ Solidarity -‐ Stabiliza0on -‐ Reconstruc0on -‐ Soldiers as helpers
The Kunduz Airstrike
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Search term „Bundeswehr“
The Coverage II
Die Zeit, Search term „Bundeswehr“
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Next steps
-‐ Qualita0ve Discourse Analysis -‐ Methods to iden0fy Strategic Narra0ves
(e.g. mapping seman0c corridors)