EU Citizens in the European Public Sphere: An Analysis of EU News in 27 EU Member States

✍ Scribed by Stefanie Walter (auth.)

• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Series: Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Stefanie Walter examines the visibility of European Union citizens in the mass mediated European public sphere and argues that it can help facilitate an exchange between decision-makers and ordinary citizens. The results show that in comparison to other actor groups, such as political parties or civil society organisations, the visibility of European Union citizens is not marginal. Yet, the image of the European Union citizenry that becomes visible via the news media remains nationally entrenched and references to a truly European citizenry are rare. The study also uses multilevel regressions to explain the visibility of European Union citizens in the news coverage. The empirical analyses are based on a large-scale content analysis of TV news and newspaper articles of the 2009 European Parliament election.p>

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 15-26
Citizenship, Democracy and the EU....Pages 27-49
The Public Sphere....Pages 51-76
The European Public Sphere....Pages 77-102
Research Questions....Pages 103-108
Methodology....Pages 109-121
To What Extent are EU Citizens Visible in the European Public Sphere?....Pages 123-132
EU Citizens in the Light of Normative Public Sphere Theories....Pages 133-182
Explaining the Visibility of EU Citizens in the European Public Sphere....Pages 183-237
Excursus: Explaining the Visibility of Fellow EU Citizens....Pages 239-252
Discussion and Conclusion....Pages 253-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-328

✦ Subjects

Political Communication;Journalism;Comparative Politics