ABSTRACT
This introduction provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the selection, description and contextualisation of grievances manifested in news and social media in Ireland, Italy and Cyprus. Through a political-claim analysis conducted on five Italian newspapers in the last ten years, the book examines the reciprocal role between media representations of the crisis in Italy and the protest processes related to it. It also discusses protest construction in Cypriot television news, situated in the larger semiotic struggle over media representations of protest movements. The book explores and discusses identity-centred processes in anti-austerity protest as portrayed and interpreted in media. It investigates the coverage by three German newspapers of the anti-austerity protests in Greece during the period of the coalition government of New Democracy and Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).
