The Internet and European Integration : Pro- and Anti-EU Debates in Online News Media / Asimina Michailidou, Pieter de Wilde, Hans Jörg Trenz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michailidou, Asimina Dr., Author.

de Wilde, Pieter Dr., Author.

Trenz, Hans Jörg Prof., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

online media.

Euroscepticism.

Local Subjects:

European Union.

online media.

Euroscepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich 2014

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Dr. Asimina Michailidou, Senior Researcher, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway; Prof. Hans-Jörg Trenz, Vice Chair, Center for Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Dr. Pieter de Wilde, Senior Researcher, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany

Summary:

This book offers a wealth of original empirical data on how online media shape EU contestation. Taking a public sphere perspective, the authors highlight the myths and truths about the nature of audience-driven online media content and show how public demands for legitimacy are at the heart of the much-analyzed politicization of European integration. What EU citizens most intensely debate online are the fundamental questions of what the European institutions stand for and how they can be held accountable. Drawing on innovative and rigorous analysis of online media ownership, journalistic content and online readers’ inputs, the authors piece together the components of the dynamic nature of EU contestation and the degree of convergence towards Euroscepticism across EU member states in the first years of the Eurocrisis. There is no doubt that EU citizens have strong opinions about the EU and interactive online media allow these opinions to come to the fore, to be challenged and amplified both within and beyond national public spheres. Yet, for all its potential to unite European publics, online EU contestation remains firmly anchored in offline news media frames, while citizens and journalists alike struggle to put forward a clear vision of the future EU polity.

This book offers a wealth of original empirical data on how online media shape EU contestation. What EU citizens most intensely debate online are the fundamental questions of what the European institutions stand for and how they can be held accountable. There is no doubt that EU citizens have strong opinions about the EU and interactive online media allow these opinions to come to the fore, to be challenged and amplified both within and beyond national public spheres. Yet, for all its potential to unite European publics, online EU contestation remains firmly anchored in offline news media frames, while citizens and journalists alike struggle to put forward a clear vision of the future EU polity. GMK-Newsletter 4/2014

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""The Internet and European Integration. Pro- and Anti-EU Debates in Online News Media""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""1. Introduction: New media - new democracy for Europe?""; ""1.1. Online news media and the promise of democracy""; ""1.2. The Internet and the European public sphere: Promise and reality""; ""1.3. Beyond deliberation: Capturing the spirit of the European e-sphere""; ""1.4. The EU online news media sphere: Cyber-dream orcyber-nightmare?""; ""2. Digital democracy: Expectations and reality ""; ""2.1. Cyber-optimists meet cyber-pessimists""

""2.2. The information promise: The practice of online journalism""""2.3. The participatory promise: Does the online public sphere empower the citizens?""; ""2.4. The legitimation promise: Does the online public sphere support new forms of transnational democracy?""; ""3. Internet and democracy in the EU: A public sphere perspective ""; ""3.1. EU mediatization and the reconfirmation of the publicsphere""; ""3.2. A public sphere approach of digital democracy in the EU""; ""3.3. From subaltern online publics to online mass publics""

""3.4. The mass mediating capacities of online news media: Towards a new concentration of political news?""""3.5. A three-dimensional public sphere model""; ""3.6. The public sphere model as a bridge between micro andmacro analysis""; ""4. Methods: Analysing the spirit and essence of the online EU news sphere ""; ""4.1. Defining the online EU sphere(s)""; ""4.2. Capturing and analysing online content""; ""4.3. Operationalizing the public sphere model""; ""4.4. Validation, consistency and reliability""; ""4.5. Discussion""

""5. Mapping the EU online new space: Publicity, participation and public opinion formation""""5.1. Publicity: The condition of the online EU spheres""; ""5.2. Online readers� participation""; ""5.3. Public opinion formation""; ""5.4. Conclusion""; ""6. Expanding the online news space: Readers as alternative voice or echo?""; ""6.1. The terms of publicity: �Staging� the debate""; ""6.2. Participation: Different types of publicness, differentmode of debate?""; ""6.3. Us, them and the EU: Persuasion through populism ordeliberation?""; ""6.4. Conclusion""

""7. Expanding the EU news space: the formation of voice publics in online user forums """"7.1. EU online news-making: Condition of publicity""; ""7.2. EU online news-making: Condition of participation""; ""7.3. EU online news making: Condition of public opinion formation""; ""7.4. The implications of online public contestation for European integration""; ""Annex I: Sampling of articles for quantitative and qualitative coding ""; ""I.I 2009 European Parliament elections""; ""I.II Eurocrisis 2010-2012""; ""Annex II: Codebook, Eurocrisis in online news media 2010-2012""

""Annex III: Graphs and figures""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783847404712

3847404717

Publisher Number:

9783847404712