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

IF 0.5 Q4 COMMUNICATION

Central European Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-09-04 DOI:10.19195/1899-5101.12.3(24).4

N. Mažeikienė, J. Kasperiūnienė, Ilona Tandzegolskienė

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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.

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这篇文章对三大新闻门户网站对立陶宛最重要的战略目标伊格纳利纳核电站INPP的媒体报道进行了批判性话语分析。媒体新闻主要关注INPP退役的某些方面的管理问题和融资机制的透明度。退役的环境和社会方面没有得到充分的披露和讨论。维萨吉纳斯社区是国家人民党工人的卫星城，仍然是话语中一个无形而沉默的行动者。在媒体新闻门户网站上，该镇被描绘成与INPP脱节。这种分歧可以通过以下假设来解释：在INPP作为一个主要的喂养企业关闭后，该镇必须寻求对其身份的重新定义，并在没有核能和INPP的情况下构建这种身份。另一方面，这种分歧反映了整个核话语的一个共同趋势——剥夺社区和公众的权力，在行业和公众之间，在专家和普通公民之间建立边界。

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期刊介绍： Central European Journal of Communication provides an international forum for empirical, critical and interpretative, quantitative and qualitative research examining the role of communication in Central Europe and beyond. The journal welcomes high quality research and analysis from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as reviews of publications and publishes notes on a wide range of literature on media and communication studies. Submission of original articles is open to all researchers interested in communication and media.