Overview
- Unites, for the first time in one volume, insights into the consequences and effects that online news and social media have on EU politics
- Brings together multiple disciplinary perspectives with a range of international contributors
- Analyzes the interrelation between EU politics, legitimacy and mediatization
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This volume investigates the role of social media in European politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public discourse around the EU decision-making process. Throughout the collection, the contributors test the hypothesis that the internet and social media are promoting a structural transformation of European public spheres which goes well beyond previously known processes of mediatisation of EU politics. This transformation addresses more fundamental challenges in terms of changing power relations, through processes of active citizen empowerment and exertion of digitally networked counter-power by civil society, news media, and political actors, as well as rising contestation of representative legitimacy of the EU institutions. Social Media and European Politics offers a comprehensive approach to the analysis of political agency and social media in European Union politics, by bringing together scholarly works from the fields of public sphere theory, digital media, political networks, journalism studies, euroscepticism, political activism and social movements, political parties and election campaigning, public opinion and audience studies.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mauro Barisione is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. He is head of POMLAB (Public Opinion and Media Lab) and vice president of ITANES (Italian National Election Studies). His research focuses on public opinion and voting, political participation and social media, leadership and political communication.
Asimina Michailidou is Researcher in Political Communication at the ARENA Centre for European Studies in the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research specialises in political and crisis communication within digital public sphere formats, as well as in digital communication strategies of EU institutions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Media and European Politics
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era
Editors: Mauro Barisione, Asimina Michailidou
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59889-9Published: 01 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93687-8Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59890-5Published: 19 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 309
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, European Politics, Social Media, Online Marketing/Social Media