
The Internet and European Integration
Pro- and Anti-EU Debates in Online News Media
Verlag Barbara Budrich
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2014
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-3-8474-0153-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leverkusen-Opladen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Thickness: 1.9 cm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8474-0153-7 (9783847401537)
Schweitzer Classification
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Asimina Michailidou | Pieter de Wilde | Hans Jörg Trenz
The Internet and European Integration
Pro- and Anti-EU Debates in Online News Media
E-Book
11/2014
1st Edition
Verlag Barbara Budrich
€39.99
Available for download
Persons
Dr. Asimina Michailidou is a Senior Researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Prof. Hans-Jörg Trenz is the Vice Chair of the Center for Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Pieter de Wilde is a Senior Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany.