Social Media and European Politics: Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era (1st ed. 2017) (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2017

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ISBN-13:

9781137598905

Related ISBNs:

9781137598899

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Date of Addition:

04/10/21

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

Mauro Barisione

Edited by:

Asimina Michailidou