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Item Metadata only Anti-Austerity Protests, Brexit and Britishness in the News(Routledge, 2017-09) Sanz Sabido, Ruth; Price, StuartThis chapter examines the representations of austerity measures and anti-austerity protests in the British national press between 2011 and 2015, in order to identify some of the underlying attitudes that produced the UK's 'Brexit'vote of 2016. Based on the content and discourse analysis of a selection of news articles covering a variety of events, particular attention is devoted to the ways in which Britishness and the strength of the British state is represented in public discourse.Item Metadata only Book Review: Brunt, R. and Cere, R. (2011) Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain.(Taylor and Francis, 2012) Sanz Sabido, RuthItem Metadata only Item Metadata only Book Review: Khan, A. (2010) The Long Struggle: The Muslim World’s Western Problem.(2011) Sanz Sabido, RuthItem Metadata only Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, Special Journal Issue on ‘The Spanish Civil War 80 years on: discourse, memory and the media’, Intellect Press(Intellect, 2016-06) Sanz Sabido, Ruth; Price, Stuart; Quilez Esteve, LaiaThis Special Journal Issue publishes recent scholarship on discourse, media forms and cultural aspects of the Spanish Civil War.Item Metadata only Critical Discourse Studies Special Journal Issue on Media and Protest, Taylor and Francis(Taylor and Francis, 2016-06) Sanz Sabido, Ruth; Price, StuartThis Special Journal Issue is devoted to the study of Protest events and their representation in mediated forms.Item Metadata only 'I have a question for you': mediatisation, citizen participation and elections in Catalonia.(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Sanz Sabido, RuthItem Embargo The Ladders Revolution: Material struggle, social media and news coverage(Taylor and Francis, 2016-02-08) Sanz Sabido, Ruth; Price, StuartThis article, which focuses on a strike and ocupation that took place in Barcelona in May 2015, is part of a larger enquiry that attempts to locate public expressions of dissent in their sociopolitical, discursive and spatiotemporal context. The methods used to conduct this study include the standard collection of observational and media data, but also encompass an attempt to investigate the control of space by public and private authorities. Discursive manifestations of dissent and the arguments posed by social actors are therefore considered in conjunction with the physical impact and material setting within which goals are pursued. The case study used in this article is the workers’ occupation, in 2015, of the Telefónica building, the famous landmark identified in George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia as the epicentre of the internecine struggle that took place within the Republican camp in 1937.Item Metadata only Networking Knowledge special issue: othering race and ethnicity in media and popular culture.(MeCCSA, 2013) Sanz Sabido, RuthItem Metadata only When the ‘other’ becomes ‘us’: mediated representations, ‘terrorism’ and the ‘war on terror’.(School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (Australia), 2009) Sanz Sabido, RuthThe aim of this paper is to elaborate on the use of one of the rhetorical techniques employed in the political and mediated representation of 'Islamist terrorists' by the British print media in the aftermath of the London bombings of July 7th, 2005. This technique consists of the emphasis on making 'terrorism' and its perpetrators look 'foreign', by creating an opposition between the Nation and the 'Other' (Said, 1997). This opposition is questionable from, at least, two perspectives. On the one hand, this polarisation depends on the position of who produces the discourse. The British reaction to the bombings was a patriotic one which sought to protect the British Nation against the 'foreign enemy' (Bulley, 2008). On the other hand, though, taking into account that the bombers of July 7th were actually British, it is possible to question the actual meaning of 'us' and 'them', as well as the term 'foreign', since the 'Other' is, in this context, also a part of 'us'. The consequence is an ambiguous division between 'known' and 'unknown', 'good' and 'evil', which does not only occur in rhetorical terms, but which is also visible in ongoing conflicts, and ha an impact on the 'clash of civilisations' concept.