Shifting Europe's Boundaries

Maier, Jürgen; Rittberger, Berthold

doi:10.1177/1465116508089087

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“…Politics in general and supranational politics in particular are fairly distant to citizens' everyday experiences, which makes it necessary for individuals to rely on information provided by the mass media (Azrout, van Spanje, and de Vreese 2012;Maier and Rittberger 2008). As such, the communication or information deficit of the EU (Clark 2014;Meyer 1999) has often been held accountable for a lack of information and resulting low levels of interest and knowledge of the European citizenry: If individuals only learn about the Union via the news, and if this news is both infrequent and, if existent, mostly negative in nature, people are likely to form EU-related attitudes on the basis of either their knowledge about national politics or to develop negative evaluations in line with the media coverage.…”

Section: Media Coverage As a Relevant Source Of Information About The Eumentioning

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Knowing is not loving: media effects on knowledge about and attitudes toward the EU

Marquart

Goldberg

Elsas

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Journal of European Integration

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Media provide the public with information related to the European Union which may alter individuals' perceptions, ultimately resulting in changes in performance evaluations of the EU. Knowledge gains may be an important mediator in this process. We present data from a study in the context of the 2016 Bratislava summit in which the Heads of the Union's governments discussed the outcome of the Brexit vote and the EU's future. A panel survey assessed the relationship between exposure to media content, event-related knowledge gains, and changes in attitudes towards the European Union. Our results show that when attending to news about the summit, citizens attain event-related knowledge which negatively affects EU performance evaluations. We discuss our findings in light of the role media play in informing the European citizenry.

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Section: Media Coverage As a Relevant Source Of Information About The Eumentioning

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Knowing is not loving: media effects on knowledge about and attitudes toward the EU

Marquart

Goldberg

Elsas

et al. 2018

Journal of European Integration

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“…The enlargement of the EU, on the other hand, addresses the issue of demarcation: who is a group member, and who is not (Maier & Rittberger, 2008)? The issue of EU enlargement has stimulated a wide debate about the EU boundaries (Thomassen & Back, 2008;Zielonka, 2005).…”

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Framing the EU as Common Project vs. Common Heritage: Effects on Attitudes Towards the EU Deepening and Widening

La Barbera

2015

The Journal of Social Psychology

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The present study investigated the effects of framing the European Union (EU) as a common project vs. a common heritage on participants' attitude towards EU integration (Experiment 1) and EU enlargement (Experiment 2). An additional aim was exploring whether the different frames affected the strength of identification with the EU, and if the framing effect on attitudes was mediated by participants' identification with the EU and/or by their message evaluation (Experiment 3). Results showed that a common project-based frame was more effective than a common heritage-based frame in promoting positive attitude toward EU integration and enlargement, as well as participants' identification with the EU, which mediated the framing effect on both attitudes; the mediation of participants' message evaluation was not significant. The procedure of the last experiment was replicated on a British sample (Experiment 4), showing a similar pattern of results.

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“…Valenced news frames have the capacity to affect political opinions (De Vreese & Boomgaarden, 2003;Maier & Rittberger, 2008), the dependent variable in our study and other framing experiments (e.g. Jacoby, 2000;Nelson et al, 1997aNelson et al, , 1997bSlothuus, 2010).…”

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