Mapping the European Public Sphere
Institutions, Media and Civil Society
Edited by
CRISTIANO BEE
University of Surrey, UK
EMANUELA BOZZINI
University of Trento, Italy
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Mapping the European public sphere:
institutions, media and civil society.
1. Civil society--European Union countries. 2. Mass media and public opinion--European Union countries. 3. Mass media and social integration--European Union countries.
4. Communication--Political aspects--European Union countries.
I. Bee, Cristiano. II. Bozzini, Emanuela.
302.23094-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mapping the European public sphere: institutions, media and civil society / [edited by] Cristiano Bee and Emanuela Bozzini.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7376-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-9385-2 (ebook)
1. European Union countries--Politics and government. 2. Communication in politics--European Union countries. 3. Civil society--European Union countries. I. Bee, Cristiano. II. Bozzini, Emanuela.
JN30.M3375 2009
300.94--dc22
2009031192
ISBN 9780754673767 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315593852 (ebk)
ISBN 9781317100775 (ebk-ePUB)
Notes on Contributors
Auks Balytien (Ph.D., Joensuu University) is Professor of journalism at Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas. Her teaching and research interests include comparative media systems, news management and production, and European public sphere. She has written extensively about the culture and role of journalism as well as multicultural journalism online.
Cristiano Bee is Research Fellow in the 7th Framework Programme project PIDOP (Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation) at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies of the University of Surrey (UK). He previously held a GARNET funded fellowship at the Institut dEtudes Europennes of the Universit Libre de Bruxelles and a post doc at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy). He obtained a Ph.D. in Political Sociology at Department of Sociology and Political Science of the University of Florence in June 2006. He has recently co-edited Cultural Spaces in Europe a special issue of European Societies (10/2, 2008) (with Alan Scott and Riccardo Scartezzini) and published The Institutionally Constructed European Identity: Public Sphere and Citizenship Narrated by the Commission on Perspectives on European Politics and Society (9/4, 2008).
Emanuela Bozzini is Research officer at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (Italy). She studied Sociology at the University of Trento and defended her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Florence (Italy). She was research officer at the University of Essex (UK). She has been involved in the EU funded project Organised Civil Society and European Governance (2001-2006), in the project The role of Environmental Groups in the European Policy of Local Development (2004-2006) funded by the Italian government. She is currently working in the context of the CINEFOGO NoE funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU (2005-2009) and in 2008 received a grant for the project Participation, Consultation and Democracy on the EU consultation regime. Her main research interests refer to the role played by civil society organisations in the transformation of the European system of governance, paying specific attention to local development, anti-discrimination and environmental policies.
John Downey is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Communication and Media Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He was educated at Cambridge University (his doctorate addressed the cultural sociology of the Frankfurt School) and has taught in universities in Germany, the UK, and the USA. In 2007 he was Visiting Professor of Sociology at Williams College in the USA. He has published books and articles in the fields of new media, European media, and comparative media from a perspective informed by those of the Frankfurt School. He is presently Programme Director of the MA in Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University. He is a member of the Communication Research Centre at Loughborough and has conducted research for the Guardian newspaper in the UK (new media and UK general elections), the UK Electoral Commission (new media and UK general elections), the Commission for Racial Equality (Britishness in public debates), the BBC Board of Governors (the impartiality of the BBCs reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), the Economic and Social Research Council (comparative European media analysis), and the UK Department of Health (media representations of health inequalities). He is presently the Principal Investigator on an Economic and Social Research Council funded project analysing public debates about the national DNA database in the UK.
Stefano Fella works for the University and College Union, and previously lectured politics at London Metropolitan University and co-ordinated EU research projects at the University of Trento. His publications include New Labour and the European Union, Political Strategy, Policy Transition and the Amsterdam Treaty Negotiation (Ashgate 2002), (with Carlo Ruzza) Reinventing the Italian Right: Territorial Politics, Populism and Post-Fascism (Routledge 2009), and (as co-editor with Mary Farrell and Michael Newman) European Integration in the Twenty-first Century Unity in Diversity? (Sage 2002). He has also edited a special issue Politics in Italy Still in Transition of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans
