The Image of the “Other” in the Contemporary TV Discourse

Taking into consideration the big importance of the communication issues (especially nowadays), this paper aims to give a research example on how the “refugee problem” is diffused by different media. More specifically (and because on one hand the image of the “other” is central on the identification level -who we are, with whom do we feel partners and whom we consider as “enemy”- and because on the other hand we live in a period of reclassifications -of borders and identities), we think important to give specific examples from televisual discourse on the “others”, including the rhetoric of hatred and racism. We thought it important (as an introduction to the works of this session) to capture the “everyday discourse” diffused in “cozy emissions” (in the TV magazines) where (like in social media) the mentalities and current ideas are shown more easily and (which is more interesting) because they coincide with “given as correct -dominant- ideas” their xenophobic and excluding characteristics are not easily remarked by the public. We will emphasize on examples of media of countries “at the borders” (such as Greece) fighting to conserve their place in the “security zones” (such as the European Citadel).