Social media and European politics : rethinking power and legitimacy in the digital era /: rethinking power and legitimacy in the digital era. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mauro Barisione, Asimina Michailidou, editors.
• Editors: Barisione, Mauro; Michailidou, Asimina
• Contents: Social Media and European Politics; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Do We Need to Rethink EU Politics in the Social Media Era? An Introduction to the Volume; EU Politicisation and the Role of the Media; EU Politicisation and Digital Media: Towards the Rise of Citizen Europeanism?; Towards a Social Media Approach to Power in the EU; References; 2 Social Media, Personalisation of News Reporting, and Media Systems' Polarisation in Europe; Political Parallelism, Social Media, and Journalists' Self-Branding. Research DesignData and Methods; Results; Conclusions; References; 3 Engaging with European Politics Through Twitter and Facebook: Participation Beyond the National?; The Participatory and Transnational Promises of Social Media; Styles and Degrees of Engagement on Social Media; Digital Architectures: The Technological Differences Between Facebook and Twitter; European Politics on Facebook and Twitter: Factual, Partisan and Moral Content Illustrated; Conclusion; References; 4 A Digital Movement of Opinion? Contesting Austerity Through Social Media. Towards a Theory of Digital Movements of OpinionThe Research Setting: Europeanised Communications and the EU Election Campaign; Data, Methods, and Hypotheses; Results; Conclusion; Appendix; References; 5 Building Contention Word-by-Word: Social Media Usage in the European Stop ACTA Movement; The Stop ACTA Mobilisation; Participatory Coordination and Informal Civic Learning; Findings; Conclusions; References; 6 Campaigning for Gender Equality Through Social Media: The European Women's Lobby; Women's Online Advocacy; Social Media as an Advocacy Tool. The EWL's Online Advocacy: Unfulfilled Potential?The Extent of the EWLs Social Media Use; Discussion and Conclusion; References; 7 A Framework for Evaluating European Social Media Publics: The Case of the European Parliament's Facebook Page; No Public Sphere Without a Public; Conceptualising the Public on Social Media; The Public as a Potential; The Public as Content; The Public as Discourse; A Framework for Evaluating the European Public on Facebook; Research Design and Hypotheses; Mapping European Facebook Publics; The Visible Public; Attention; Discursive Capacity; Critical Function. IdentityConclusions: A Polite European Facebook Public; References; 8 Extreme Right, the Internet and European Politics in CEE Countries: The Cases of Slovakia and the Czech Republic; The research: methods, sources and cases; The Structure of Extreme Right Online Networks; Extreme Right Discourses on European Integration; Conclusion; References; 9 Social Media as Propaganda Tools: The Greek Conservative Party and National Elections; Social Media and Politics in Crisis' Times; Social Media and Electoral Campaigns.
• Publisher Details: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 320.94; 306.2; Social sciences; Social media -- Political aspects -- Europe; Internet in public administration -- Europe; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Internet in public administration; Politics and government; Social media -- Political aspects; Social Sciences; Political Sociology; European Politics; Social Media; Online Marketing/Social Media; Social Science -- Media Studies; Business & Economics -- E-Commerce -- Online Trading; Politics & government; Media studies; Sales & marketing; Political sociology; Social media; Internet marketing; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Europe -- Politics and government; Europe; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137598905; 1137598905
• Related ISBNs: 9781137598899; 1137598891
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed August 21, 2017).
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