ABSTRACT
Mapping the European Public Sphere combines theoretical and empirical perspectives to address three relevant issues that are marking the European communicative landscape: the role of media and journalism in shaping the European debate, the function of public communication in promoting institutional activities, and the implications of processes of inclusion to and exclusion from the public sphere. The volume offers a timely reflection on the communicative arenas that are structuring the discourse on Europe and its future and provides a map of existing communicative spaces to provide a better understanding of the development of a European Public Sphere and to identify critical issues. Situated in a timely debate and providing well-grounded empirical evidence, the book will be particularly valuable to social scientists researching European integration issues. At the same time, the book is relevant to those actors who are studied in the research, in particular European institutions, media groups and NGOs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|50 pages
Conceptualising the European Public Sphere
chapter 1|16 pages
The Europeanisation of Political Communication
chapter 2|16 pages
Theoretical Reflections on the Public Sphere in the European Union
part 2|51 pages
Institutional Communication in Europe
chapter 4|18 pages
Vertical Europeanisation of Online Public Dialogue
chapter 5|16 pages
Understanding the EU's Institutional Communication
part 3|59 pages
Media and the Public Sphere
chapter 7|24 pages
Media Performance and Europe's ‘Communication Deficit'
chapter 8|18 pages
Assessing Conditions for the Homogenisation of the European Public Sphere
part 4|49 pages
Inclusion and Exclusion from the Public Sphere