par Sobotova, Alena
Référence 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (30 July - 1 August 2013: Prague, Czech Republic)
Publication Non publié, 2013
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : The paper analyses the experience of media correspondents coming from New Member States and covering the EU from Brussels, how they adapt to the new context, constraints and work conditions inherent to this particular working environment. Our aim was to study only the correspondents from New Member States, a group of actors that has been largely understudied by scholarly literature. We assume that those actors could be more open to the socializing influence of Brussels because they come from contexts marked by recent political, social but also media transformation endured during the transition period from communist rule to democracy. The paper is based on a series of qualitative interviews that were carried with 14 EU correspondents from 7 different EU member states. The data obtained during the interviews were analyzed using content analysis, assessing the real impact of Brussels socialization, as well as the persistence of nationally acquired patterns and the articulation of one with another. Both practices and cognitive schemes of Brussels news reporters are being influenced by the environment they are evolving in. This is mainly due to the fact that they come to Brussels with little previous knowledge of the EU and tend to acquire it “on the spot”. Nevertheless the socializing potential of Brussels is being undermined by the inequalities in terms of communicational capabilities of the different EU institutions as well as their co-existence with national actors present in Brussels. Moreover, we are facing a certain paradox where the process of information gathering is more open to European influence, than is the writing which is still dominated by mainly national logics, namely the necessity to cover topics of national interest and in “nationalized” perspective.

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