The European Public Sphere, the Media, and Support for European Integration

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Stoeckel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Public Sphere ◽  
European Public ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication: An introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Serafis ◽  
Jolanta Drzewiecka ◽  
Sara Greco
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Public Sphere ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
European Public ◽  
The Media

While these lines were written, Taliban were conquering Afghanistan, establishing a regime of terror in the country, while concurrently provoking a wide conflict in the Western public sphere about responsibilities and consequences of this situation. More specifically, Europe witnesses a racist and xenophobic wave of discourses against a new possible escape of refugees toward Europe; presently such discourses abound in politics and the media. It is more than a truism nowadays that, in crisis-stricken Europe, there is an increasing politicization of migration, which takes place against the background and mutual overlapping of diverse crises. More specifically, migration has become a focal and quite polarizing issue in the European public sphere especially since the numbers of refugees, escaping from conflict territories of the Middle East (e. g., Syria), crossing the Mediterranean, dramatically increased starting in 2014 (Bevelander & Wodak, 2019a). The so-called “refugee crisis,” as this movement was portrayed by mainstream media and powerful political figures in Europe (Krzyżanowski, Triandafyllidou, & Wodak, 2018), contributed to social and economic tensions (such as the Eurozone “debt crisis”) that took place in the European Union and played into Brexit that followed.

The European Public Sphere and the Deficit of Democracy

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiner Grundmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
National Level ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
European Level ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
European Public Sphere ◽  
European Public ◽  
The Media

This chapter explores a threefold European deficit: a democratic deficit, a deficit in European identity, and a deficit in the European public sphere. It argues that although interests such as social movements have most leverage at the national level, since this is the level at which the media are largely organised, the emergence of distinctively ‘European’ issues such as BSE means that national cycles of media attention are becoming increasingly synchronised. This makes it more likely that a homogenisation of issues and opinion will occur at the European level. This would favour the eventual emergence of a supranational identity. The creation of a European public sphere through the synchronisation and homogenisation of cycles of media attention on contentious ‘European’ issues is a more realistic prospect than direct attempts to create a ‘new European’ identity through public education or the legal system.

scholarly journals German Quality in the Service of a European Public Sphere? An Analysis of the Deutsche Welle’s European Journal program

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Oana Ludmila Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Public Sphere ◽  
European Dimension ◽  
European Public ◽  
Tv Program ◽  
The Media ◽  
Deutsche Welle ◽  
The Eu

<p>The economic crisis of the European Union has rendered the European public sphere as a forever emerging concept marked by uncertainties regarding its structure. In this context, eyes of both European officials and citizens turn towards the media, the main communication link between the EU and its citizens. The present paper looks at a media product that is designed to permeate multiple national public spheres, the weekly news show <em>European Journal</em>, a half-hour TV program produced by Deutsche Welle and rebroadcast by partner TV channels throughout Europe. Considering the main characteristics of the European public sphere as identified in the literature, with a focus on <em>horizontal Europeanization, </em>and using the method of content analysis, this paper looks at the means employed by the European Journal to support the integration process and to add a European dimension to national public sphere. Findings suggest that the type of public sphere promoted by the <em>European Journal </em>is not centered around the EU as a distinct entity, but around the member states, approach which supports the idea of a <em>horizontal Europeanization</em>.</p>

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