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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
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