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

Segesten, Anamaria Dutceac; Bossetta, Michael

doi:10.1111/jcms.12871

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“…We would also expect this to apply to European topics, which are highly contested (Caiani & Graziano, 2018). • • Hypothesis 3: Support for the EU: Negative comments that oppose the issue publics are not correlated with feeling less European and/or being anti-EU as theorized or shown in previous research (De Wilde et al, 2014;Dutceac Segesten & Bossetta, 2019;Fossum & Schlesinger, 2007). Even tweets that are very critical about the issue publics are made within a Europeanized framework and can, therefore, contribute to the formation of a European demos and public sphere.…”

Section: Research Question and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Commenting on Political Topics Through Twitter: Is European Politics European?

Ruiz-Soler

Curini

Cerón

2019

Social Media + Society

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The aim of this study was to explore social media, and specifically Twitter’s potential to generate a European demos. Our use of data derived from social media complements the traditional use of mass media and survey data within existing studies. We selected two Twitter hashtags of European relevance, # schengen and # ttip, to test several theories on a European demos (non-demos, European democracy, or pan-European demos) and to determine which of these theories was most applicable in the case of Twitter topics of European relevance. To answer the research question, we performed sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis performed on data gathered on social media platforms, such as Twitter, constitutes an alternative methodological approach to more formal surveys (e.g., Eurobarometer) and mass media content analysis. Three dimensions were coded: (1) sentiments toward the issue public, (2) sentiments toward the European Union (EU), and (3) the type of framing. Among all of the available algorithms for conducting sentiment analysis, integrated sentiment analysis (iSA), developed by the Blog of Voices at the University of Milan, was selected for the data analysis. This is a novel supervised algorithm that was specifically designed for analyses of social networks and the Web 2.0 sphere (Twitter, blogs, etc.), taking the abundance of noise within digital environments into consideration. An examination and discussion of the results shows that for these two hashtags, the results were more aligned with the demoicracy and “European lite identity” models than with the model of a pan-European demos.

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Section: Research Question and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Commenting on Political Topics Through Twitter: Is European Politics European?

Ruiz-Soler

Curini

Cerón

2019

Social Media + Society

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“…Following Dutceac andBossetta (2019, p. 1054), we use the term Europeanization to refer to "any process whereby a feature of the domestic (whether it be an identity, a policy, or a discourse) takes on a European dimension." Europeanization in Spain has been marked by a strong political pro-European consensus from the moment Spain first applied for membership in the European Community (EC) until today (Avilés, 2004;Real-Dato & Sojka, 2020;Ruiz & Egea, 2011).…”

Section: Europeanization and Polarization In Spainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Polarization in Media Discourses on Europeanization in Spain

Pérez-Escoda

Boulos

Establés

et al. 2023

PaG

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Political and media polarization has had a detrimental impact on democratic principles and democratic processes on a global scale. In Europe, such polarization has eroded the trust in national and European institutions and has challenged the basic values that stand at the heart of the European integration project. The aim of this study is to analyze Spanish media discourses on Europeanization, with an attempt to identify key areas in which polarizing narratives related to Europeanization are more prevalent. To conduct our study, six national media outlets were selected based on four criteria: media format, ownership, ideology, and consumption. A final sample of 540 news items collected between July 2021 to March 2022 was selected for analysis. Using a qualitative methodological approach, the study was carried out in two stages. In the first phase, we conducted a content analysis to identify the main topics discussed in relation to the European Union and the actors represented in them. This led to the identification of polarizing narratives and discourses emerging in the context of the discussed topics. In the second phase, we used critical discourse analysis to analyze polarizing discourses.

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“…In fact, ‘while protest events still especially targeted national (or even local) institutions, a Europeanisation of contentious politics developed’ (della Porta, 2020, p. 226). Similarly, for the case of Euroscepticism, some authors find a connection between the consolidation of a European public sphere (Segesten and Bossetta, 2019) and the diffusion of Eurosceptic discourse, whereas others consider that Euroscepticism, in spite of the nationalist and pro‐sovereignty sentiment that inspires it, is actually a pan‐European and transnational phenomenon (FitzGibbon et al, 2017).…”

Section: The Debate: Europe From Below? a Social‐movement Perspectivementioning

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From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes

Accornero

Kousis

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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Following bailouts by the Troika (EC, ECB and IMF) due to the 2008 global financial crisis, between 2010 and 2013, new anti‐austerity movements, left‐wing parties and trade unions led large mobilisations against austerity policies in Greece and Portugal, with a deep impact in the political landscape of both countries. Besides the relevance of transnational decisions, these mobilisations mostly addressed national political institutions, whereas the governments that emerged from the protest period showed a clear pro‐European stance. Against this background, using two case studies with primary data on anti‐austerity protests and interactions amongst contentious and institutional actors, this article aims to shed light on a relatively unexplored aspect of Europeanisation in the context of the crisis, focusing on the relation between social movements and institutional politics. Explaining the critical pro‐EU positions that have been adopted in Greece and Portugal, it thereby contributes to the related debates on anti‐austerity social movements and their impact in times of crisis.

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

Cited by 20 publications

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Commenting on Political Topics Through Twitter: Is European Politics European?

Commenting on Political Topics Through Twitter: Is European Politics European?

Polarization in Media Discourses on Europeanization in Spain

From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes

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