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European Journal of Communication
Journal Prestige (SJR): 1.519  Citation Impact (citeScore): 2 Number of Followers: 16  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 0267-3231 - ISSN (Online) 1460-3705 Published by Sage Publications  [1176 journals]
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- Book notes: Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall
McLuhan by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh (Editors)-
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Pages: 110 - 110
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 110-110, February 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-27T02:18:08Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150126a
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 1 (2023)
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- Book notes: Women Journalists in South Africa: Democracy in the Age of
Social Media by Glenda Daniels and Kate Skinner (Editors)-
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Pages: 110 - 111
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 110-111, February 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-27T02:18:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150126b
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 1 (2023)
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- Book notes: 21st Century Media and Female Mental Health Profitable
Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture by Fredrika Thelandersson-
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Pages: 111 - 112
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 111-112, February 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-27T02:18:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150126c
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 1 (2023)
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- Book notes: Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel
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Pages: 112 - 112
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 112-112, February 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-27T02:18:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150126d
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 1 (2023)
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- Book notes: Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s
Italy by Lindsay Caplan-
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Pages: 112 - 113
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 112-113, February 2023.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-27T02:18:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150126e
Issue No: Vol. 38, No. 1 (2023)
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- The is and the ought of democracy
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Authors: Stephen Coleman
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-03-13T06:39:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231163750
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- Book review: TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video by D. Bondy
Valdovinos Kaye, Jing Zeng and Patrik Wikstrom-
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Authors: Asma Khurram
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-03-10T07:04:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231161738
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- Book review: The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch by
Paddy Manning-
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Authors: Thomas Klikauer
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-03-06T08:13:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231161737
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- Book Review: Transparency and Critical Theory: The Becoming-Transparent
Ideology by Jorge L. Valdovinos-
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Authors: Amardo Rodriguez
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-03-01T06:06:44Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231161739
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- Technological affordances of video streaming platforms: Why people prefer
video streaming platforms over television-
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Authors: Tom Evens, Amandine Henderickx, Peter Conradie
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates to what extent technological affordances are associated with people's preference for video streaming platforms over traditional television services. Such affordances refer to properties of these platforms (including personalized recommendations and easy-to-navigate interfaces) that provoke certain uses of the technology and satisfy social and psychological needs. Based on a quantitative study of 25–50-year-olds in Belgium (N = 596) and a hierarchical regression analysis, the study builds further on the conceptualization of technological affordances as presented in the MAIN model, which suggests that four affordances (Modality, Agency, Interactivity and Navigability) are central to digital media technology. As such, the study presents an affordance-based measure of video streaming platforms, and helps to understand how video streaming technology shapes new patterns of audiovisual consumption and enhances the viewing experience beyond that of traditional television. Whereas most research attention has focused on user-oriented gratifications of video streaming platforms, this study addresses a gap in the literature by dealing with platform-oriented gratifications of video streaming platforms.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-02-09T05:11:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231155731
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- Public service media and public funding: A three-country study of
willingness to pay versus perceived dispensability-
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Authors: Annika Sehl
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Recent public debates in several European countries have shown that public service medias’ (PSM) public funding has become a topic of controversial discussion. Based on an online survey in France, Germany, and the UK, this study analyses how the willingness to pay (WTP) versus perceived dispensability of PSM relates to various factors identified in the current literature. Across the three countries, most respondents doubt that PSM are dispensable. However, if they determine the sum of the licence fee themselves, it would clearly be a smaller amount than it is currently. Assessment of the overall information quality of PSM and the assumed state or government influence thereon, have a significant influence on the WTP for PSM versus the perceived dispensability thereof. Understanding the factors driving and hindering WTP versus perceived dispensability is crucial, providing insights relevant to understanding PSM and public funding.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-31T06:57:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231151246
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- Networked frame contestation from authoritarian to Western democracy – A
case of China's (failed) Twiplomacy in contesting coronavirus narrative in
the UK-
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Authors: Yuan Zeng
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Transnational political communication today is being reconfigured by digital technologies and global power transition. Authoritarian state actors such as China are increasingly active on global social media platforms such as Twitter to directly advance their preferred frames with foreign publics in Western democracies, most notably in what could be called Chinese Twiplomacy contesting narrative globally over contentious issues. This paper problematises such Twiplomacy from authoritarians to Western democracies as ‘networked transnational frame contestation’, arguing that the political and cultural distance between the sending and target countries, the networked affordance of social media, and the national prism of the target countries, all contribute importantly to the complexity of such frame contestation. Through a case study on China's Twiplomacy in contesting coronavirus narrative in the UK, this paper further provides empirical evidence on how ‘networked transnational frame contestation’ works between politically and culturally distant countries. Using a mixed-method approach combining social network analysis and discourse analysis, this study finds that China's emotion-evoking discursive strategy draws traction but the authoritarian nature of the highly centralised networkedness and that of its discursive strategy, together with the strong cultural discordance with British publics, lead to networked recontextualisation of its intended frames in Britain. British publics, heavily relying on British political elites and press for foreign affairs, invoke shared cultural reference to recontextualise Chinese frames into culturally resonant counterframes. This study proposes a paradigm of ‘networkedness within cascades’ to understand frame contestation between politically and culturally distant countries.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-23T06:36:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150873
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- The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to
same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism-
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Authors: Sabina Mihelj, Katherine Kondor, Václav Štětka, Fanni Tóth
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Over the past decade, the rights of people whose sexual orientation does not conform to prevailing norms have become a divisive issue in many countries. Despite a long tradition of research on media and sexual minorities, the role of the media in these recent backlashes remains poorly understood. We argue that this is partly because work in this area is often underpinned by a simple, linear narrative that unambiguously links visibility to empowerment. We highlight the ambivalent impact of mediated visibility and argue that in the context of elite-driven polarization, illiberalism and low levels of media freedom, visibility can become a vehicle of control. To explore this proposition, we examine the link between media and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in four east European countries, combining a population survey with semi-structured interviews. The results confirm the need to consider the conditions of mediated visibility in particular socio-political contexts, showing that where control over the conditions of visibility remains in the hands of homophobic elites, both Public Service Media and digital media can contribute to negative attitudes.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-20T05:56:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150347
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- Conceptualising media freedom in the digital age
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Authors: Nancy Mbaya
First page: 95
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-17T01:11:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231151347
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- Book Review: The Media World of ISIS by Michel Krona and Rosemary
Pennington-
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Authors: Burak Özçetin
First page: 100
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-03T07:42:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221149611
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- Book Review: The Religious Rhetoric of U.S. Presidential Candidates: A
Corpus Linguistics Approach to the Rhetorical God Gap by Arnaud Vincent-
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Authors: Shanshan Zhang, Fan Pan
First page: 102
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-03T07:42:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150119
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- Book Review: Arab Media Systems by Carola Richter and Claudia Kozman
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Authors: Houda Al Balushi
First page: 105
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-18T10:31:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231231151346
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- Book notes: Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children by
Michel Desmurget-
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First page: 109
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2023-01-04T08:09:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221150126
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- Being good while being bad: How does CSR-communication on the social media
serve the gambling industry'-
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Authors: Matilda Hellman, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Robin Nilsson, Johan Svensson
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Global businesses are known to use their social media accounts for legitimisation aspirations and national market assimilation. Still, we lack empirical tools for identifying the kind of public corporate social responsibility communication (CSRC) that helps along positive branding and social relevance. This is particularly important information in view of whitewashing aspirations by the vice industries. This study develops a content analytical tool for assessing gambling companies’ social media strategies by comparing CSRC by state-owned and licenced gambling operators in Finland and Sweden. The diachronic comparative design allows us to point out how the companies advance along ambitions to communicate responsible gambling (RG), affiliate with public interests, shape the companies’ public role as societal benefactors and normalise gambling as an activity. The concepts of tactical and strategic CSRC help us to expose these communication strategies in view of national policy changes, state control and public opinion.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-12-20T06:28:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221145363
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- Biographies in TVE series, 1982–1996. Felipism and Spain's new image
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Authors: Javier Jurado
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Cultural policies of Felipe González's government were intended to reshape a certain national identity. We will focus on these legitimation strategies through TV series, and particularly those with historical background produced and exhibited by the public broadcasting institution, Television Española. The recovery of some liberal mythology from the 19th century and its adaptation to the 80s will allow us to connect the promoted national identity with the concept of constitutional patriotism defended by important figures of the PSOE since the transition to democracy until nowadays.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-11-30T07:08:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221140721
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- Press coverage of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church in France
(2016–2020)-
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Authors: Sophie Dubec, Céline Morin, Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
While sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church is a topic of growing importance, and the subject of much work to understand its construction as a public problem, little research has attempted to analyse the press coverage of this phenomenon. This article focuses on French press coverage of sexual violence committed by Catholic Church members between 2016 and 2020, a period of intense coverage, and aims to grasp its causes and solutions as reported in the daily national press. Based on content analysis using an inductive framing grid that lists the causes and solutions reported by four major national daily newspapers, the study results reveal a tendency to highlight systemic causes, particularly the role played by the silence of the Church in the perpetuation of violence, while reporting extensively on individual cases. This reflects both the strong movement of recognition of the victims, as well as their driving role in the newspapers’ exposure of the phenomenon.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-11-28T07:03:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221142550
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- Did COVID-19 change the political communication of polarizing leaders'
The case of Salvini's campaigning before and after the pandemic-
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Authors: Alberto Bitonti, Rita Marchetti, Claudia Mariotti
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
In recent years, political polarization saw a significant rise in many political systems. This revamped a scientific debate sparked decades ago, with different schools of thought debating on dynamics, factors, and causes of polarization itself. By looking at political elites’ polarizing strategy—one of the factors on which various theories seem to converge—this article tackles the question concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of political communication. More specifically, we look at the case of a highly polarizing leader in Italy—Matteo Salvini, leader of Lega—in two campaigns held in 2020 before and after the first wave of the pandemic. By analyzing his messages on Facebook and Twitter, we build on the literature on the causes of affective polarization to study Salvini's use of partisan identity and divisive issues, also considering other crucial elements, such as the attacks against others, and followers’ engagement. The results highlight some changes between the two phases, but also a strong continuity in the polarizing strategy of Salvini's political communication.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-11-24T10:15:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221140697
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- The contextual role of privacy concerns in online political participation
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Authors: Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Christoph Lutz
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Research on online political participation highlights how online platforms may facilitate or encumber political participation. In this contribution, we add to existing research on digital inequalities in online political participation by focusing on privacy concerns as a critical construct. We follow a contextual understanding of online privacy and examine a variety of online political behaviours to differentiate the distinctive roles privacy concerns play in higher- and lower-threshold forms of participation. Based on a survey of German Internet users, we find that social media use exerts a strong positive effect on political participation, especially lower-threshold forms of participation. As privacy concerns are spread quite evenly throughout the population, they contribute little to the socioeconomic stratification of online political participation. Privacy concerns relate positively to higher-threshold forms of political participation. We discuss how higher- and lower-threshold participation constitute distinct contexts for users’ considerations of privacy risks.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-11-15T07:00:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221139040
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- The German media as amplifier of the political agenda: The economic policy
framing of European conflicts in times of COVID-19-
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Authors: Victoria Sophie Teschendorf
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Especially in times of (corona) crisis, the German press plays a crucial role in communicating Germany’s economic policy orientation, influencing how the crisis is communicated to the public. The issue of joint European debt has never been more visible than in these times, as has the threat of a new euro crisis—Italy in focus. This study explores the German media framing of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) using Italy as an example. Applying quantitative content analysis, the relative prevalence of frames rooted in competing economic policy paradigms (neoliberal/Keynesian) in press coverage from February to July 2020 is examined. The Keynesian paradigm dominates coverage. Using logit analysis, issue-specific neoliberal frames are identified as solution oriented, while Keynesian frames focus on evaluations. With Germany's policy shift regarding European joint debt and toward European greater fiscal integration, a paradigm shift is observable. Overall, findings demonstrate a relatively paradigmatic pluralistic reporting.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-10-18T07:52:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221130926
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- Banalisation of communications surveillance in the debate on Finnish
intelligence legislation-
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Authors: Matti Kortesoja
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
A case study of both public and non-public debate on civil and military intelligence laws in Finland examined policy documents, news coverage, and interviews with key elite stakeholders to reveal various political and media actors’ connections with the banalisation of communications surveillance. The analysis suggests that debate on Finnish intelligence legislation has been conditioned by governmentalities that have anchored communications surveillance as (1) control of the population for preventing or limiting hybrid threats, (2) care in legitimating trust in the authorities and their oversight, and (3) authorities’ empowerment in control over confidential communication and freedom of the press. Empirical analysis shed light also on how new surveillance powers become difficult to challenge once policymakers and state authorities have obtained consent for communications surveillance. Once banalised in policymaking and mediated debate on civil and military intelligence, that surveillance becomes a commonplace, taken-for-granted, banal aspect of everyday life.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-10-12T06:45:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221131662
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- The ‘Kim Jong-un Effect’ and the mainstreaming of North Korea
coverage in UK Media-
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Authors: Soomin Seo, Jungsik Choi, Hayoung Choi
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the entire corpus of news articles published about North Korea by six major UK national newspapers from 2000 to 2020. It offers insights on how North Korea evolved from a relatively obscure subject to a mainstay in the world news section, particularly for the tabloids. Coverage grew exponentially, led by not only stories about nuclear development and missile programmes, but also by soft news items like football, and tourism. Notably, the tone of coverage shifted after Kim Jong-un came to power in 2011, leading to an explosion of stories focussed on the young leader and his family. Structural topic modelling reveals 12 key topic areas among elite and tabloid media. While elite media coverage spanned a wider range of subjects, tabloid media largely focussed on three topics: missiles, the Kim family, and football. Each theme was highly compatible with the traditions of tabloid coverage, supplying eye-catching images (missiles and Kim’s eccentric appearance), a ‘royal family’ of sorts, and sports (North Koreans’ feats during World Cup). Furthermore, qualitative analysis demonstrates that while tabloidization and sensationalistic reporting on the Kim family largely drove the increase in coverage, such stories also added colour and depth previously lacking in reportage on the enemy regime, thereby making the portrayal of North Korea more multidimensional.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-09-30T08:01:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221123203
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- What factors explain the broadcasting of televised election debates'
Empirical evidence from Germany-
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Authors: Jürgen Maier
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Televised election debates are considered as the most important single campaign event. While a large body of research has analyzed their content, processing, impact, and media coverage, it has not yet been examined under which conditions candidates agree to debate. This is remarkable, as debates are a matter of course in only a few countries, and candidates are always renegotiating their participation with the television networks. Using a dataset covering all German federal and state elections between 1994 and 2022 (N = 108), we demonstrate that the broadcasting of televised debates is more likely if (1) there was a debate in the last election, (2) the fragmentation of the party system is low, and (3) the race is close. Furthermore, the likelihood for debates increases over time; also, the introduction of debates on the national level has stimulated the broadcast of debates in state elections.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-09-06T11:07:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221123201
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- Conspiracy thinking and the role of media use: Exploring the antecedents
of conspiratorial predispositions-
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Authors: Jesper Strömbäck, Elena Broda, Salma Bouchafra, Sofia Johansson, Gregor Rettenegger, Elina Lindgren
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
In contrast to beliefs in specific conspiracy theories, conspiratorial predispositions refer to people's propensity to view the world in conspiratorial terms. As such, they are one of the most important antecedents of beliefs in specific conspiracy theories. Understanding the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions is hence important. Despite this, there is still only limited research on the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions. Previous research has also not taken the role of media use into account, even though media constitute the most important source of politically and societally information. To remedy this, in the current study we use a large-scale panel study in Sweden to investigate the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions, with a particular focus on the role of media use. Among other things, the results show that use of right-wing political alternative media is one of the most important antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions, even when accounting for ideological leaning and ideological extremity.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-08-29T07:18:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221122951
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- Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users
disagree about Greta Thunberg-
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Authors: Dag Elgesem, Michael Brüggemann
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ‘polarizing figure’ on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention' The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thunberg and her message of intergenerational climate justice, using all relevant posts on public Facebook pages in Germany, Sweden, and the UK. We find that there are many similarities in the attitudes expressed and topics discussed on Facebook in the three countries; however, there are also some striking differences in the levels of polarisation. This comparative study provides evidence that the level of polarisation around these topics on Facebook is very low in Sweden and the UK, but high in Germany. In Germany, a group of political actors stand out as particularly polarising, and, in contrast to the other two countries, the topic of intergeneration justice, the core of Thunberg’s message, is almost absent from the German Facebook discourse. The study shows that Thunberg was not in general a polarising figure in the three European countries and that neither the affordances offered by the platform nor features of her person, message, or activism explain the observed polarisation around Thunberg on Facebook.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-08-17T07:53:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221116179
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- Tools and measures for diversity and inclusion in media industries:
International best practice and informing policy change in the Irish film
and television sector-
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Authors: Páraic Kerrigan, Susan Liddy, Anne O’Brien
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion in the Irish media industry and how it can be improved. The need to develop these policies, tools and measures has become pertinent, considering that the Irish media workforce currently lacks diversity. The aims of this article are twofold: (i) examine the tools and measures from the international media industry that have been developed to improve equality, diversity and inclusion and (ii) interrogate how these tools and measures could work within the Irish context. Through sampling tools and measures developed in varying media industries in English language territories, this research used this analysis as the basis of semi-structured interviews with independent production companies and broadcasters in Ireland, to gauge how the media industry can develop equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. This article identifies four central areas that would encourage further diversity in the Irish media sector: data gathering and monitoring, developing diversity standards, objective setting and incentivization and diverse recruitment for the industry.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-08-16T04:57:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221118192
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- Mapping the European media landscape – Meteor, a curated and
community-coded inventory of news sources-
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Authors: Paul Balluff, Fabienne Lind, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Annie Waldherr
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
We present Meteor, a new inventory for European news sources (i.e. EU + UK, CH, NO, IL): https://wp3.opted.eu/. This inventory will facilitate researchers’ efforts to select sources across platforms and gather related textual data. It contains the names of print and online news sources, social media accounts, news blogs, and alternative news media sources, as well as rich meta-information for each entry (e.g. language, audience size, topical focus, ownership structures, access to full-text archives, secondary data, related research). Meteor accounts for the fuzziness of hybrid media systems through an interlinked knowledge graph. Entries are submitted by researchers, validated, continuously updated, and openly accessible to the public. Our inventory allows users to find various European news sources based on a wide range of criteria, putting scholars in a better position to navigate the European media landscape.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-08-01T07:39:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221112006
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- Sweden's feminist foreign policy in national newspapers in EU member
states (2014–2020): Media logic or political logic'-
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Authors: Malena Rosén Sundström
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
As the first country in the world, Sweden introduced its Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in 2014. The article investigates how Sweden's FFP is communicated in quality newspapers in 11 EU Member States (2014–2020). It focuses on whether the coverage of FFP signals the adoption of media logic or political logic, and whether the newspapers’ images of FFP serve to strengthen or counteract the existing tendencies on gender equality in the different Member States. The findings demonstrate that reports on FFP are heavily influenced by media logic. They give priority to political conflicts and focus on short-term events and persons rather than long-term consequences and content of the policy. FFP is least reported and explained in Member States with lower levels of gender equality, which can serve to strengthen existing views. In more gender-equal Member States, the reports on FFP are more frequent and elaborate, especially in the left-leaning newspapers.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-07-25T11:37:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221115861
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- Audiences of popular European television crime drama: A nine-country study
on consumption patterns, attitudes and drivers of transcultural connection
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Authors: Cathrin Bengesser, Paola De Rosa, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Marica Spalletta
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article presents findings of a mixed-methods audience study on consumption patterns and attitudes towards European television crime narratives among European viewers. Based on semi-structured interviews in Denmark, Germany and Italy, and a nine-country online survey (n1321), we asked how, when, where and why European audiences watch crime series, and whether watching non-domestic European crime narratives influences perceptions of the European ‘Other’. Our findings reveal preferences for Anglo-American content, combined with a criticality towards domestic content often perceived as stereotyped. While stereotypes and personal and previous non-mediated encounters draw viewers to European content, they do not necessarily challenge viewers’ perceptions of the European ‘Other’. It does, however, enable critical reflection on viewers’ domestic societies and TV cultures, leading to a process of banal cosmopolitanism.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-07-14T08:07:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221112535
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- Media policymaking and multistakeholder involvement: Matching audience,
stakeholder and government expectations for public service media in
Flanders-
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Authors: Hilde Van den Bulck, Tim Raats
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This contribution analyzes government, opposition, public service media, media stakeholders and audience views regarding the role and remit of public service media in the run-up to and their impact on the renewal of the 2021–2025 management contract between public broadcaster VRT and the Flemish Government. Results show that, despite a shifting media ecosystem and academics and government pushing for fundamental reform, audiences and most stakeholders’ views stick to a centralized, broad and multiplatform public media institution. Moreover, they expect public service media to solve ever more media and societal issues (e.g. fake news) within a shrinking budget. The case illustrates how mature, evidence-based multistakeholderism pushes public service media to meet an increasingly challenging set of expectations, hampers both public service media and government to build a well-balanced, long-term vision of public service media's role and, instead, pushes them to pursue their own agenda. Lastly, an evidence-based process also suffers from issues of validity of the data.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-07-14T08:06:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221112199
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- Political power’s media capture strategies in Spain
(2016–2021)-
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Authors: Isabel Fernández Alonso
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
This article analyses political power's media capture strategies in Spain by addressing the central government's and several regional governments' actions between 2016 and 2021. The policies implemented by parties from across the political spectrum are studied, with similar behaviours that continue to pursue or even reinforce strategies from previous eras being observed. This confirms the trait of strong government interventionism that is typical of Polarised Pluralist media systems. This article specifically takes an in-depth look at control over public media's governing bodies, the fragility of independent regulators, and opaqueness and indicators of instrumentalisation in the management of institutional advertising. The conclusions are of a propositional nature. Potential solutions to the forms of capture highlighted throughout the article are proposed. The legal reform of the General Audiovisual Communication Law—in progress at the time of writing—does not contemplate such solutions.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-07-06T06:46:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221111915
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- Can social media help end the harm' Public information campaigns,
online platforms, and paramilitary-style attacks in a deeply divided
society-
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Authors: Paul Reilly, Faith Gordon
First page: 3
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
Online platforms can help public information campaigns reach target audiences who are unlikely to engage with content distributed via traditional media. This paper adds to this emergent literature, as the first study of the Ending the Harm campaign, which is designed to change public discourse about paramilitary-style attacks in Northern Ireland. Campaign effects were explored through interviews (N = 7) conducted with key stakeholders, as well as the results of a quantitative survey of residents (N = 805) in areas most affected by these attacks. Results indicate that exposure to the ETH advertisements correlated with a belief that PSAs were unjustified. Platforms like Snapchat helped the campaign reach younger demographics (16–34 years old). Nevertheless, it was unclear whether self-reported changes in attitude toward PSAs would lead to sustained behavioral changes.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-05-25T06:56:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221101865
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- Transnational issue agendas of the radical right' Parties’ Facebook
campaign communication in six countries during the 2019 European
Parliament election-
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Authors: Annett Heft, Barbara Pfetsch, Vadim Voskresenskii, Vivien Benert
First page: 22
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
In this study, we investigate to what degree radical right parties use social media for pushing a common issue agenda to mobilise voters on a pan-European scale. Using the 2019 European Parliament (EP) election as a case, we analysed radical right parties’ campaign agendas in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and identified the transnationally shared issue repertoire in their Facebook communication. Based on the structural topic modelling we used for analysis, our results reveal a set of shared issues – immigration and blaming elites –which are typical of the populist core of those parties. Moreover, all parties use social media to draw attention to the election itself. While radical right parties mobilise their voters based on a transnationally recurring set of shared issues, national political opportunity structures account for party-specific topics and national adaptations of shared issues in their campaigns on Facebook.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-06-10T06:38:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221100146
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- Silence of the wealthy: How the wealthiest 0.1% avoid the media and resort
to hidden strategies of advocacy-
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Authors: Anu Kantola, Juho Vesa
First page: 43
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
As the wealthiest groups have emerged as increasingly significant in societies, this article explores society's wealth elites from the vantage point of media and communication studies. Bridging the literature on policy advocacy and mediatisation, the article examines the hidden and public advocacy strategies of the wealthy. Drawing from 90 interviews with the wealthiest 0.1% in Finland, this study shows the wealthy's highly strategic stance towards the media and journalism. Most of all, they prefer to avoid the media and journalism, while actively using hidden advocacy strategies and being confident in their ability to wield political influence. As a consequence, the wealth elites may remain hidden from the public eye, making them ‘shadow elites’, whose power and scrutinisation pose a challenge to society and journalists as well. The findings support the view that paradoxically, one reaction to mediatisation – the media's heightened powers – is the deliberate avoidance of it.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-06-13T06:22:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221105137
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- Social mobility or social change' How different groups react to
identity-related news-
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Authors: Ming M Boyer, Sophie Lecheler
First page: 58
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
In times of identity politics, journalists use group primes to organize events and reduce their complexity. Because research has mostly investigated the effects of single group primes on opinion formation and news selection, two aspects of group primes in the news have remained understudied: (1) whether they directly affect group identification itself, and (2) how these effects differ between groups. This experiment (N = 750) shows that group primes in the news cause awareness of citizens’ membership in these groups. However, citizens’ perceived group importance diverges between groups: priming groups that likely have a social change mindset increases their perceived importance, while priming groups that likely have a social mobility mindset does not. Accordingly, the effects of group primes in the news depend on shared notions of a group's status in society and the rigidity of its boundary. These findings considerably advance contemporary understanding of differential news effects relating to group identification.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-06-22T06:53:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221105168
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- Opinion-leading media as indicators of a democracy at risk: The press and
the rise of National Socialism between 1927 and 1932-
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Authors: Josef Seethaler, Gabriele Melischek
First page: 77
Abstract: European Journal of Communication, Ahead of Print.
The rise of National Socialism in the late 1920s and 1930s happened within democratic societies with well-developed media systems. This gives rise to whether an increasingly right-wing press climate aided the emergence of National Socialism. Based on a comparative analysis of post-election reporting in German and Austrian newspapers, this paper argues that changes in the spectrum of opinion-leading media and in the relations both between them and with the opinion-following media can serve as indicators of a democracy at risk. Utilizing sociometric theory, it is hypothesized that in times of severe democratic crisis, the gap between elite-dominated, opinion-leading media and mass newspapers widens; reciprocal orientation among the opinion-leading media is lessened; and, finally, the composition of this group changes in favour of radical political forces. There is empirical evidence for all assumptions, reflecting a growing significance of extreme right-wing positions in the political information environment.
Citation: European Journal of Communication
PubDate: 2022-07-06T06:46:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/02673231221111910
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