While the European migrant crisis is omnipresent in political and medial discourses, two of its key causes are only seldom addressed by politicians and journalists: mistakes in Europe’s domestic, foreign and development policies; and Eurocentric, clichéd or ill-informed press coverage on migration. What impedes such political and medial self-criticism? What happens if politicians or journalists publicly address their own mistakes? Creative culture, in turn, has a long tradition of public self-reflexivity. In the wake of the crisis, many literary texts and films self-critically reflect on the literary and filmic framing of migrants, and challenge the political and medial ‘externalization’ of the crisis. Building upon these observations, this contribution suggests a new direction for discursive research: the analysis of self-criticism as an ethical challenge for public communication. It highlights research desiderata, discusses the theoretical foundations for comparing self-reflexivity across discourses, and outlines a transdisciplinary terminology and exemplary methods for future research.

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欧洲移民危机背景下的公众自我反思：迈向政治、媒体和艺术话语分析的新跨学科模型

尽管欧洲移民危机在政治和媒体话语中无处不在，但政治家和记者很少提及其两个关键原因：欧洲的国内、外交和发展政策错误；和以欧洲为中心、陈词滥调或消息不灵通的新闻报道。是什么阻碍了这种政治和媒体的自我批评？如果政客或记者公开解决自己的错误会怎样？反过来，创意文化有着悠久的公众自我反思传统。危机之后，许多文学文本和电影对移民的文学和电影框架进行了自我批判，并挑战了危机的政治和媒体“外化”。基于这些观察，这一贡献为话语研究提出了一个新方向：将自我批评分析为公共传播的道德挑战。它突出了研究需求，讨论了比较跨话语的自我反思的理论基础，并概述了未来研究的跨学科术语和示范方法。