Przejdź do wyszukiwarki/Go to searching Zamknij wyszukiwarkę
A- Decrease font sizeA+ Decrease font size Zmień kontrast

Central European Journal of Communication

Central European Journal of Communication

Scientific Journal of the Polish Communication Association

https://www.facebook.com/CEJCjournal

https://linkedin.com/company/cejcjournal

https://www.instagram.com/cejcjournal

You are here: Home > Browse Journal > Volume 12 No 3 (24) Fall 2019 > Nuclear media discourses after the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant: Is the game over?

Nuclear media discourses after the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant: Is the game over?

Natalija Mažeikienė
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA

Judita Kasperiūnienė
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA

Ilona Tandzegolskienė
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA

ABSTRACT: The article presents a critical discourse analysis of media coverage of the most important Lithuanian strategic object — the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) - in the three biggest news portals. Media news focuses mostly on certain aspects of decommissioning of the INPP - management issues and the transparency of financing mechanisms. Environmental and social aspects of the decommissioning are not sufficiently disclosed and discussed. The community of Visaginas (the satellite town for the workers of the INPP) remains an invisible and silent actor of the discourse. In the media news portals, the town is portrayed as disconnected from the INPP. This divide could be explained by assuming that after the closure of the INPP as a major feeding enterprise the town must search for a re-definition of its identity and construct this identity without nuclear energy and without the INPP. On the other hand, such a divide reflects a common trend characteristic of the entire nuclear discourse - to disempower communities and the public, create a boundary between the industry and the public, between the experts and ordinary citizens.

Full text: Nuclear media discourses after the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant: Is the game over? (PDF / 633.26 kb) 

DOI: 10.19195/1899-5101.12.3(24).4

KEYWORDS: critical discourse analysis, Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, media framing, media news portals, nuclear discourse, nuclear media discourse, text mining, Visaginas.

AUTHORS:

  • Natalija Mažeikienė
    ORCID: 0000-0001-8029-4907
    VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA
  • Judita Kasperiūnienė
    ORCID: 0000-0001-6851-7637
    VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA
  • Ilona Tandzegolskienė
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7734-5475
    VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA