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This volume investigates the role of social media in European
politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public
discourse around the EU decision-making process. Throughout the
collection, the contributors test the hypothesis that the internet
and social media are promoting a structural transformation of
European public spheres which goes well beyond previously known
processes of mediatisation of EU politics. This transformation
addresses more fundamental challenges in terms of changing power
relations, through processes of active citizen empowerment and
exertion of digitally networked counter-power by civil society,
news media, and political actors, as well as rising contestation of
representative legitimacy of the EU institutions. Social Media and
European Politics offers a comprehensive approach to the analysis
of political agency and social media in European Union politics, by
bringing together scholarly works from the fields of public sphere
theory, digital media, political networks, journalism studies,
euroscepticism, political activism and social movements, political
parties and election campaigning, public opinion and audience
studies.
This open access book is the product of three years of academic
research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet
Network on "Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation
of European Integration" since 2019. Drawing on the
multidisciplinary expertise of the network's members, the book
explores the impact of the phenomenon of post-truth politics on
European integration and the European Union. It places particular
emphasis on how post-truth politics has played out in the public
sphere and asks what impact the phenomenon has had on public
deliberation, but reflects also on its implications for democracy
in a wider sense. This book is primarily written for audiences with
an interest in politics and policy making, including academics,
policy makers and civil-society actors. Thanks to its accessible
style, the book should however also be an asset to wider audiences.
This volume investigates the role of social media in European
politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public
discourse around the EU decision-making process. Throughout the
collection, the contributors test the hypothesis that the internet
and social media are promoting a structural transformation of
European public spheres which goes well beyond previously known
processes of mediatisation of EU politics. This transformation
addresses more fundamental challenges in terms of changing power
relations, through processes of active citizen empowerment and
exertion of digitally networked counter-power by civil society,
news media, and political actors, as well as rising contestation of
representative legitimacy of the EU institutions. Social Media and
European Politics offers a comprehensive approach to the analysis
of political agency and social media in European Union politics, by
bringing together scholarly works from the fields of public sphere
theory, digital media, political networks, journalism studies,
euroscepticism, political activism and social movements, political
parties and election campaigning, public opinion and audience
studies.
This book investigates the way politicians and citizens evaluated
the European Union and the process of European integration in
public debates during the 2009 European Parliament elections. It
presents detailed and rigorous content analysis of online media
where citizens directly and voluntarily responded to news stories
posted by journalists. New evidence is presented about the dynamic
nature of contestation about Europe on the internet and the degree
of convergence towards Euroscepticism across EU member states. Such
convergence poses new challenges for democratic representation in
the EU and provides insight into the public basis for a legitimate
European Union. 'In this book European contestation has come of
age. Pieter de Wilde, Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jorg Trenz
deliver a tour de force in mapping the multifaceted debate about
Europe among parties and citizens in twelve countries. Informed by
rich media data they convincingly argue that opposition as well as
support for Europe comes in different shades: it can be partial,
conditional, or temporal. This is a wonderfully nuanced book for
scholars, students and policy makers concerned about Europe's
future.' Liesbet Hooghe, W. R. Kenan, Jr.Distinguished Professor,
University of North Carolina and Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU
University of Amsterdam
The issues of European Union (EU) citizenship, democratic
legitimacy, social dialogue and trans-European communication of
socio-economic actors have been ever present in the academic and
political debates regarding the role of the EU institutions and the
future of the Union. These issues have also defined the conceptual
frame of the EU's information and communication strategy and
feature at the core of the debates on the EU Constitutional Treaty
(2002-2005) and the Reform Treaty (2007). This book is an
innovative and timely interdisciplinary piece of research within
the European political communication field: It assesses the
potential democratising impact of the Internet on European Union
(EU) institutions and its contribution to the emerging European
public sphere, focusing on the 'top-down' process of direct online
communication initiated at the supranational level by the European
Commission to address the general public. The findings highlight
significant disparities between the Commission's public
communication strategy, its online implementation and the
institution's operating culture.
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.
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