Mapping the European Public Sphere Institutions, Media and Civil Society

Mapping the European Public Sphere combines theoretical and empirical perspectives to address three relevant issues that are marking the European communicative landscape: the role of media and journalism in shaping the European debate, the function of public communication in promoting institutional activities, and the implications of processes of inclusion to and exclusion from the public sphere. The volume offers a timely reflection on the communicative arenas that are structuring the discourse on Europe and its future and provides a map of existing communicative spaces to provide a better understanding of the development of a European Public Sphere and to identify critical issues. Situated in a timely debate and providing well-grounded empirical evidence, the book will be particularly valuable to social scientists researching European integration issues. At the same time, the book is relevant to those actors who are studied in the research, in particular European institutions, media groups and NGOs.

Introduction, CristianoBee, EmanuelaBozzini; Part 1 Conceptualising the European Public Sphere; Chapter 1 The Europeanisation of Political Communication, Hans-JörgTrenz; Chapter 2 Theoretical Reflections on the Public Sphere in the European Union, Marianne van deSteeg; Chapter 3 The Public Sphere and the European Information Society, BridgetteWessels; Part 2 Institutional Communication in Europe; Chapter 4 Vertical Europeanisation of Online Public Dialogue, AsiminaMichailidou; Chapter 5 Understanding the EU’s Institutional Communication, CristianoBee; Chapter 6 European Social Purpose and Public Service Communication, JackieHarrison; Part 3 Media and the Public Sphere; Chapter 7 Media Performance and Europe’s ‘Communication Deficit’, PaulStatham; Chapter 8 Assessing Conditions for the Homogenisation of the European Public Sphere, Auks?Bal?ytien?, AušraVinci?nien?; Chapter 9 ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Europe, JohnDowney, SabinaMihelj, ThomasKoenig, VaclavStetka; Part 4 Inclusion and Exclusion from the Public Sphere; Chapter 10 Cosmopolitanism or Ethnic Homogeneity? Roma Identity, European Integration and the European Public Sphere, HagenSchulz-Forberg; Chapter 11 Framing Anti-discrimination Policy at the EU level, EmanuelaBozzini; Chapter 12 The Europeanisation of the Anti-racist Policy Sphere, StefanoFella;

Cristiano Bee, Department of Political International and Policy Studies, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Surrey, UK and Emanuela Bozzini, University of Trento, Italy.