Cover; The Communicative Construction of Europe; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Series Preface; 1: Introduction; Our research questions; Some basic concepts; An overview; Acknowledgement; 2: Approaching the Communicative Construction of Europe: Cultures of Political Discourse, European Public Sphere and the Euro Crisis; 2.1 Theorising the European public sphere: from functional legitimation to communicative construction; 2.2 Cultures of political discourse: explaining the multi-segmented European public sphere

2.3 The euro crisis: rethinking legitimation as communicative construction3: Journalistic Practices: National and European Cultures of Political Discourse; 3.1 National cultures of political discourse: journalistic practices of nationalisation; National embedding; Transnational contextualisation; Hierarchisation; Routinisation of the transnational; Horizons of information seeking; Doing nation in journalistic practices; 3.2 Stratification-related cultures of political discourse: transnational patterns of addressing audiences; The analyst; The ambassador; The reporter; The caterer

3.3 Imagined audiences: transnational modes of addressing4: Representing Europe in the Press:The Multi-segmented European Public Sphere; 4.1 The European public sphere: stability in times of crisis; Vertical Europeanisation; Horizontal Europeanisation; European identification; 4.2 The ambassador: representing the idea of European middle-class audiences; 4.3 The Financial Times: representing Europeans elite audiences; 4.4 The European public sphere: a plateau of multi-segmented Europeanisation; 5: Citizens' Online Engagement:The Euro Crisis in Online Forums

5.1 The political web across Europe: national segmentation and transnational websites5.2 Online practices: relation- and issue-oriented interactions on Europe; Relation-oriented interactions; Issue-oriented interactions; 5.3 Online forums: national hyperlinks and transnational constructions; 6: Appropriating Europe: Communication Repertoires, Citizens' European Public Connections and the Euro Crisis; 6.1 Europeanisation of media audiences: a European citizen audience; 6.2 Political communication repertoires: ranges and dominances

6.3 European public connections: centred, noticing and multi-perspectiveNoticing European public connection; Centred European public connection; Multi-perspective European public connection; 6.4 The euro crisis: activating European public connections; Relatedness and activation; Intensification and extension of political communication repertoires; 7: Challenging Europe:Understanding and Solving the Euro Crisis; 7.1 Understanding the euro crisis: perplexity, anxiety and speculations; Perplexity: grasping the euro crisis; Anxiety: worrying about the future