Media Events and Meaning Management
Journal: The MIT Press eBooks
Year: 2023

Before this message can have an "effect" (however defined), or satisfy a "need" or be put to a "use," it must first be perceived as a meaningful discourse and meaningfully decoded.-Stuart Hall (1973, 3) Since the winter of 2013-2014 and the dramatic and intense discursive struggles around the Euromaidan, several crucial events have occurred, some of which have been narrativized and shaped into stories and representations of Ukraine.Since 2013, Ukraine has repeatedly appeared on the international