Download or read book Ethnicity and Mass Media in South Eastern Europe written by Nikolai Genov and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not the mass media, but other powerful domestic and international factors provoked the ethnic conflicts in South Eastern Europe and determined the paths and mechanisms of their settlement. Nevertheless, it is a proven fact that on various occasions the use of guns was well prepared by hate speech used by the mass media in their coverage of interethnic relations. And vice versa, the efforts to find solutions for interethnic tensions and conflicts have been often facilitated by the moderate or neutral coverage of events by the mass media. Nikolai Genov is professor of sociology at the Free University in Berlin (Germany).