Euroscepticism, Democracy and the Media : Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe

This volume focuses on the relationship between the media and European democracy, as important factors of EU legitimacy. The contributors show how the media play a crucial role in making European governance accountable, and how it can act as an intermediate link between citizens and their elected an...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Caiani, Manuela (Editor), Guerra, Simona (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesPalgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137596437
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-59643-7
Physical DescriptionXX, 284 p. 15 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe: An Introduction; Manuela Caiani and Simona Guerra
  • 2. Eurosceptic voices: beyond party systems, across civil society; Simona Guerra
  • 3. The Spiral of Euroscepticism: Media Negativity, Framing and Opposition to the EU; Charlotte Galpin and Hans JoergTrenz
  • 4. EU Media Coverage in Times of Crisis: Euroscepticism Becoming Mainstream?; Patrick Bijsmans
  • 5. Does the Information Source Matter? Newspaper Readership, Political Preferences and attitudes towards the European Union in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands; Benjamin Leruth, YordanKutiyski, André Krouwel and Nicholas J. Startin
  • 6. How the media make European citizens more Eurosceptical; Nicolò Conti and Vincenzo Memoli
  • 7. Comparing news diets, electoral choices and EU attitudes in Germany, Italy and the UK in the 2014 European Parliament elections; Lorenzo Mosca and Marco Quaranta
  • 8. 'Not in my Europe'. Extreme right online networks and their contestation of EU legitimacy; Elena Pavan and Manuela Caiani
  • 9. Divided they tweet? A comparative analysis of Twitter networks of pro- and anti-EU parties; Annett Heft, Sophia Wittwer and Barbara Pfetsch
  • 10. Left's Love and Hate for Europe: Syriza, Podemos and critical visions of Europe during the crisis; Donatella della Porta, Hara Kouki, Joseba Fernández
  • 11. EU u-Government: A Solution for More Citizen Participation in EU Policy-Making; Evangelos Fanoulis and Anasol Peña-Rios
  • 12. Europe facing new challenges of contestation and communication: Conclusion; Simona Guerra and Manuela Caiani.