Contesting Europe: Exploring Euroscepticism in Online Media Coverage (ECPR Monographs Series) - Softcover

De, Pieter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907301518 ISBN 13: 9781907301513

Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2013

Synopsis

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. The authors present detailed, rigorous analysis of citizens' online response to news stories, and reveal new evidence about the dynamic nature of online contestation of Europe and the degree of convergence towards Euroscepticism. Such convergence provides new challenges for democratic representation in the EU, and insight into the public basis for a legitimate European Union.

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About the Author

Pieter de Wilde is senior researcher at the Department of Transnational Conflict and International Institutions, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo where he conducted research on the politicisation of European integration at ARENA, Center for European Studies. Currently, he is working on the WZB project 'The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism'.
Asimina Michailidou is senior researcher at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Her work revolves around two themes: the European public sphere and online media communications. She is currently exploring the interplay between online media and mobilisation in the context of crisis under ARENA's EUROTRANS project (The Transformation and Sustainability of the European Political Order).
Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor in European Studies at the University of Copenhagen and adjunct Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main research interests are in the areas of media, communication and public sphere, civil society, European civilisation and identity, migration and ethnic minorities, cultural and political sociology, social and political theory, democracy and constitutionalism in the European Union.

Review

In this book, European contestation has come of age. Pieter de Wilde, Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg 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 argue convincingly that opposition as well as support for Europe comes in different shades: it can be partial, conditional, or temporal. A wonderfully nuanced book for scholars, students and policy makers concerned about Europe's future.

(Liesbet Hooghe, WR Kenan Jr Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU University of Amsterdam)

About this edition

• Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907301518
• ISBN 13: 9781907301513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292