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| Grounding the European public sphere Bennett, Lance |
| Haupttitel | Grounding the European public sphere |
| Titelzusatz | looking beyond the mass media to digitally mediated issue publics |
| Autor | Bennett, Lance |
| Seitenzahl | 34 S. |
| Schriftenreihe | Working paper / KFG, The Tranformative Power of Europe ; 43 |
| URL des Originaldokuments | URL >> |
| Fachbereich/Einrichtung | FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften |
| Arbeitsbereich/Institut | Kolleg Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012 |
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| DDC | 320 Politik |
| Dokumententyp/-Sammlungen | Monographie/Text |
| Medientyp/Format | Text |
| Abstract | The gold standard for discussing public spheres has long been established around mass media, with the prestige print press given a privileged place. Yet when it comes to a European public sphere, the mass media are also problematic, or at least incomplete, in several ways: relatively few EU-wide issues are replicated in the national media of EU countries, the discourses on those issues are dominated primarily by elites (with relatively few civil society voices included in the news), and public attention is seldom paid to EU issues beyond a select few (money, agriculture, political integration, scandals), creating a distant ‘gallery public.’ At the same time, many important political issues such as trade and economic justice, development policy, environment and climate change policy, human rights, and military interventions, among others, are being addressed more actively by networks of civil society actors both within and across EU national borders. These networks utilize the Internet and various interactive digital media to publicize their issues, engage active publics, and contest competing policy perspectives not only within specific issue networks, but across solidarity networks involving other policy issues, and with political targets at national and EU levels. This dimension of the EU public sphere has received relatively little attention from observers, and when it has been explored, it is often dismissed as less inclusive, and therefore less significant than the somewhat reified mass media model. This analysis compares networked, digitally mediated public issue spheres with the mass mediated model, points out ways in which the two types of public sphere are complementary, and also shows how networked issue spheres may be the sites of greater citizen and civil society engagement in keeping with more classical models of public spheres. |
| Inhalt | 1. Introduction 5 2. Theorizing Issue Publics in National and Transnational Contexts 6 2.1 Who Are the Organizers of Issue Publics in Europe? 7 2.2 Rethinking the Nature of Mediated Public Spheres 8 3. Analyzing Networked Issue Publics in Nations and the EU 10 4. Research Design 13 5. Methods 15 6. The Case of EU Fair Trade Advocacy Networks 16 6.1 Determining Whether There is A Cross-national EU FT Network 17 6.2 Public Engagement in the EU Networkt 18 7. The Case of National Level FT Networks in the UK 21 7.1 Issue Framing in the UK Network 23 7.2 Does the UK FT Network Refer to the EU? 23 7.3 Evidence of Opportunities for Direct Citizen Engagement 24 8. The Case of Germany 26 8.1 Issue Framing 27 8.2 EU References 29 8.3 Citizen Engagement 31 9. Does the EU Respond to This Bottom-Up Communication? 31 10. Conclusion: Two Different NGO Spheres 31 Literature |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Rechte | Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| Statische URL | http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000014540 |
| Erstellt am | 25.09.2012 - 15:57:13 |
| Letzte Änderung | 25.09.2012 - 15:57:31 |
