Regional Media and Identity in Sardinia

The relation between self-identity, group-identity and institutions and their representations in the media are the two poles of this work.Both Italian and Sardinian and European identities are undergoing a process of representation and historicisation encompassing both an imagined and represented past and future. Scholars such as Giddens (1991) calls for modernity as a conveyor of a social order based on two forms of dynamism: one is directed to undercutting traditional habits and customs, whilst the other evaluates their global impact.#xD;My aim is thus two-fold: a discourse analysis of the representions being generated by the Sardinian media and a field research in order to gain insight into the extent to which these representations may help trigger different attitudes in representing and evaluating the relationship between Sardinia and the nation state.