Changing Spaces of Political Communication
The Case of the European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7971358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Schlesinger (0000-0003-0078-9630, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-279 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-4609 • E-ISSN: 1091-7675 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/105846099198622 |
| OpenAlex | W1986828971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 24 |
This essay assesses whether new public communicative spaces are emerging in the European Union as a result of the process of political and economic integration. It first argues that supranational developments have induced an important theoretical shift in which the public sphere is no longer equated with the boundaries of the nation-state. It goes on to illustrate how the emergent Euro-polity has developed an important space for a supranational elite policy community to operate. Alongside this, the growth of transnational media (newspapers, magazines, television news) has worked to sustain a restricted elite space rather than to herald generalized access to communication by European publics. These tendencies tend to confirm, rather than to challenge, the European Union's existing "democratic deficit
Democracy · democratic deficit · Economics · Elite · European integration · European union · International trade · Newspaper · Political communication · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Public space · Public sphere · Publics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Hierarchical barriers
Europos viešosios erdvės idealai ir Europos Sąjungos žurnalistika
Solidarity Framing at the Union of National and Transnational Public Spheres
Reflections on Changing Patterns of Journalism in the New Eu Countries
Comparing Media Systems
A community text pattern in the European commission press release? A generic and genetic view
An Elusive Trans-National Public Sphere
Imagining Turkey
British journalists in the spotlight
Public journalism as a journalism of publics
Comunicación estratégica transnacional en Twitter para las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2019
Between Europeanism and Nativism
Structures of the Public Sphere
Le mariage de la carpe et du lapin ? Une sociologie politique de la Commission européenne en chantier
Framing Europe online
Understanding the European Public Sphere
Comparing public spheres
One Europe or several Europes? The cultural logic of narratives of Europe — views from France and Britain
The communication policy of the European Commision
The communication policy of the European Commission
Public Service Media as a Political Issue
Internet and the Political Public Sphere
Greek Correspondents and EU
Unhappy Engineers of the European Soul
Participation, Dialogue, and Civic Engagement
Transnationalism and media groups in independent television production in the UK and Spain
Losing the media battle, waging the policy war
Comparing media coverage of online risks for children in southern European countries
EU Communication in the Member States
Understanding the mechanisms of EU politicization
News media representations of a common EU foreign and security policy. A cross-national content analysis of CFSP coverage in national quality newspapers
Three Models of the European Public Sphere
A Partial Europe Without Citizens or Eu-Level Political Institutions
Exploring the European Elite Sphere
Political Communication About Europe on the Internet During the 2004 European Parliament Election Campaign in Nine Eu Member States
Eurocrats, Technocrats, and Democrats
Media Framings of the Issue of Turkish Accession to the Eu
Towards a European public sphere
War-like history or diplomatic history? Contentions over the past and regional orders in Northeast Asia
Media-political inroads for Europeanising national cultural public spheres
Beinahe-Gleichzeitigkeit. Die europäische Anti-Gentechnik-Welle und das Öffentlichkeitsdefizit der EU
Bridging the Gap’ between EU Politics and Citizens? The European Commission, National Media and EU Affairs in the Public Sphere
Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization
Pics or it didn’t happen! EU institutions’ visual communication and user engagement on Facebook and Instagram
Beyond 'In so far as' Questions
Is There a European Public Sphere
Journalists as Commentatorson European Politics
Turkey and the European Union
The European and the Nationalin Communication Research
The geography of the Arab public sphere on Twitter
Identities
The Internet and National Solidarity
The European Public Sphere
Balanced or Biased? Interest Groups and Legislative Lobbying in the European News Media
Social media in/and the politics of the European Union
A virtual European public sphere? The Futurum discussion forum
Segmented Europeanization
The News Coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in 25 Countries
Political party contestation over Europe in the mass media
Who inhabits the European public sphere? Winners and losers, supporters and opponents in Europeanised political debates
Nationalism and Bounded Integration
Green Political Theory and the European Union
Party contestation and Europe on the news agenda
Going Public in the European Union
Agir par mimétisme
Is the EU different? Comparing the diversity of national and EU-level systems of interest organisations
Télévision
Democratic foundations of EU foreign policy
EU Politics on Television News
Urban Workers' Leisure Culture and the 'Public Sphere
Debating the EU Constitution in France
THe politics of nuance
Addressing climate change
Global Sport Protest Activism Is Exclusive to the Global Elite
Globalization in Question
The European rescue of the nation-state
Citizenship and National Identity
Habermas and the public sphere
Nationalism and national development.
Nations and Nationalism
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Lobbying 'Brussels
Voting in Europe
The Role of Television in European Elections
British Media and European Union News
From cultural defence to political culture
Euronews
The New Public
Public service broadcasting by satellite in Europe
National identity and Europe
Wishful Thinking
British Pressure Groups in the European Community
Critical social theory
Between Facts and Norms
| Unique citing works | 74 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,32 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |