Brexit and the Media

Seaton, Jean

doi:10.1111/1467-923x.12296

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“…This discrepancy in coverage may indicate, but may have also contributed to, the perception of isolation and idiosyncrasy that is often associated with the UK in its relationship to Europe. Our findings help contextualize the British media's coverage of the EU before Brexit, where the print media is argued to have heavily shaped the national debate (Seaton, ).…”

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Can Euroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses on Euroscepticism across Six Countries

Segesten¹,

Bossetta

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This study compares the media discourses on euroscepticism in 2014 in six countries (the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Sweden and Denmark). We assessed the extent to which the mass media's reporting of euroscepticism indicates the Europeanization of public spheres. Using a mixedmethods approach combining latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modelling and qualitative coding, we find that approximately 70 per cent of print articles mentioning 'euroscepticism' or 'eurosceptic' are framed in a non-domestic (i.e., European) context. In five of the six cases studied, articles exhibiting a European context are strikingly similar in content, with the British case as the exception. However, coverage of British euroscepticism drives Europeanization in other member states. Bivariate logistic regressions further reveal three macro-level structural variables that significantly correlate with a Europeanized media discourse: the newspaper type (tabloid or broadsheet), the presence of a strong domestic eurosceptical party and relationship to the EU budget (net contributor or receiver of EU funds).

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confidence: 72%

Can Euroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses on Euroscepticism across Six Countries

Segesten¹,

Bossetta

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…This is not to suggest that many working‐class people did not vote for Brexit, rather it is to point to a need to address that segment of the population that more plausibly could be argued to have delivered the result and is missing in many analyses of Brexit (see also Flemmen and Savage 2017). This is while recognizing that there are also other explanatory factors for the vote, including as Campos argues, the role of ‘political elites, economic elites, and the media’ (: 36; see also Seaton ; Moore and Ramsay ).…”

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Brexit, Trump, and ‘methodological whiteness’: on the misrecognition of race and class

Bhambra

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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The rhetoric of both the Brexit and Trump campaigns was grounded in conceptions of the past as the basis for political claims in the present. Both established the past as constituted by nations that were represented as 'white' into which racialized others had insinuated themselves and gained disproportionate advantage. Hence, the resonant claim that was broadcast primarily to white audiences in each place 'to take our country back'. The politics of both campaigns was also echoed in those social scientific analyses that sought to focus on the 'legitimate' claims of the 'left behind' or those who had come to see themselves as 'strangers in their own land'. The skewing of white majority political action as the action of a more narrowly defined white working class served to legitimize analyses that might otherwise have been regarded as racist. In effect, I argue that a pervasive 'methodological whiteness' has distorted social scientific accounts of both Brexit and Trump's election victory and that this needs to be taken account of in our discussion of both phenomena.

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“…Through analysing these data in‐depth, we can see how small details may give us an insight into broader issues (Sacks, ). Thirdly, as the Internet is where so much political debate around Brexit took place (Seaton, ), using data from online sources allows researchers to explore the many different facets of ordinary people's understandings of Brexit and also of politics in general.…”

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The use of the political categories of Brexiter and Remainer in online comments about the EU referendum

Meredith

Richardson

2019

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In June 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum on EU membership; 52% of those who voted, voted to leave, and 48% voted to remain. During the referendum campaign, two identities emerged: "Brexiter" and "Remainer," which remained salient post-referendum. This study explores how the categories of Brexiter and Remainer were deployed by posters online. Data comprise comment threads collected from four online newspapers both during the campaign and after the vote, which focus on the Brexit campaign promise: "We send £350m a week to the EU. Let's fund our NHS instead." We draw on membership categorization analysis and discursive psychology to analyse when categories were made salient and what responses to the invocation of categories were. Analysis revealed that posters explicitly categorize the out-group and in doing so implicitly define their group. Posters resisted other political identities when attributed to them in relation to the referendum. The analysis shows how Brexiter and Remainer are new, albeit contested, political categories and identities in their own right, with other political identities resisted when used. The paper highlights implications for the political system in the United Kingdom and for social divisions within U.K. society.---

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Brexit and the Media

Cited by 33 publications

References 1 publication

Can Euroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses on Euroscepticism across Six Countries

Can Euroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses on Euroscepticism across Six Countries

Brexit, Trump, and ‘methodological whiteness’: on the misrecognition of race and class

The use of the political categories of Brexiter and Remainer in online comments about the EU referendum

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