Citizens’ Online Engagement: The Euro Crisis in Online Forums

Hepp, Andreas; Elsler, Monika; Lingenberg, Swantje; Mollen, Anne; Möller, Johanna; Offerhaus, Anke

doi:10.1057/9781137453136_5

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“…Despite the prevalence of negative sentiments toward Schengen and TTIP, tweets in all the three languages demonstrated remarkably positive sentiments toward and support for the EU. Bad news and negative events, such as economic and political crises, triggered a transcultural public discourse, as reported in previous studies (Fossum & Schlesinger, 2007; Hepp et al, 2016). Accordingly, Hypothesis 3 was confirmed.…”

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“…The literature reveals that apart from these different sources of Europeanization that promote the positive aspects of a united Europe, negative events, such as economic crises, terrorist attacks, and Euroscepticism could also contribute to the building of a European demos . This is attributed to the fact that these problems, crises, and events are shared within Europe, and possible solutions also require collective implementation (Fossum & Schlesinger, 2007; Hepp et al, 2016; Risse, 2010d). In sum, even if they appear to be anti-European, topics that are of common concern may contribute to the development of a European demos .…”

Section: Sources Of the European Demos: Empirical Evidence Of A European Demos In The Makingmentioning

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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: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: Sources Of the European Demos: Empirical Evidence Of A European Demos In The Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Ruiz-Soler

Curini

Cerón

2019

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Cognitive, Affective, or No Engagement? How Young Adults in Austria Deal with Media Coverage on the EU

Ortner¹

2018

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Drawing on qualitative data from a mixed-method study, this paper analyses 30 cases to find out, how and why young adults in Austria engage in media coverage on the EU. The analyses shows that young people react quite differently to media reports on this topic. While some pay attention, actively search for information and intensively deal with EU content (cognitive engagement), others do not follow European affairs but react emotional when they come across it (affective engagement). The third group is characterised by a very low overall level of engagement. Both, intensity and form of engagement depend on young people's satisfaction with EU media coverage, their general relation to information media, politics and the EU and their willingness to make efforts. Finally, the data suggest that political cynicism does not necessarily lead to disengagement, but rather to a more emotional and less constructive form of engagement.

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Citizens’ Online Engagement: The Euro Crisis in Online Forums

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

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

Content Analyses of User Comments in Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science

Cognitive, Affective, or No Engagement? How Young Adults in Austria Deal with Media Coverage on the EU

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