Information Flow and Communication Deficit: Perceptions of Brussels-Based Correspondents and EU Officials

Martins, Ana Isabel; Lecheler, Sophie; Vreese, Claes H. de

doi:10.1080/07036337.2011.584345

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“…specific communicative patterns are aroused from the various institutions, the EU inter-institutional cooperation is negatively evaluated, and non-official information channels are a key asset for communicating in Brussels." (Martins et al, 2012) My research, which is based on a secondary data analysis, is positioned close to Hans-Jörg Trenz's (2009) attempts of theorizing digital media and the representative public sphere. The author discusses the "Habermasian tradition" and postulates in his statements the shift from top-down communication -the "principle of representativity" -to bottomup communication, embedded in the "principle of discursivity", namely: "the replacement of the courts by the institutions of the bourgeois public sphere" (Trenz, 2009).…”

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Pan-European institutions and new media: pan-European or counter-pan-European media usage?

Toczyski¹

2021

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Technically, online space seems to be connective beyond national borders and could serve for mass communication between Europeans, both European Union citizens and candidate countries’ citizens. With high internet penetration rates and Web 2.0 tools availability never before had there been such huge potential of growth in communication. Does it mean that European information society emerges? Or contrary: does it seem that pan-European institutions use online tools in non-pan-European or even counter-pan-European ways? Illustrations from Poland's first ten years after EU accession suggest misusing online space fixed website as exemplified by Europa.eu.

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Pan-European institutions and new media: pan-European or counter-pan-European media usage?

Toczyski¹

2021

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“…1 Research focuses on how EU affairs are discussed in or covered by national media (Koopmans and Statham 2010), but also increasingly pays attention to the information and communication policies of the institutions (Martins et al 2012). This chapter introduces the latter perspective into this volume.…”

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The Politics of Information

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Vanhoonacker²

2014

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The series maps the range of disciplines addressing the study of European public administration. In particular, contributions to the series will engage with the role and nature of the evolving bureaucratic processes of the European Union, including the study of the EU's civil service, of organization aspects of individual institutions such as the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the External Action Service, the European Parliament, the European Court, and the European Central Bank, and of inter-institutional relations among these and other actors. The series also welcomes contributions on the growing role of EU agencies, networks of technical experts and national officials, and of the administrative dimension of multilevel governance, including international organizations. Of particular interest in this respect will be the emergence of a European diplomatic service and the management of the EU's expanding commercial, foreign, development, security, and defence policies, as well as the role of institutions in a range of other policy areas of the Union.Beyond this strong focus of EU administrative governance, the series will also include texts on the development and practice of administrative governance within European states. This may include contributions to the administrative history of Europe, which is not just about rules and regulations governing bureaucracies, or about formal criteria for measuring the growth of bureaucracies, but rather about the concrete workings of public administration, both in its executive functions and in its involvement in policy-making. Furthermore, the series will include studies on the interaction between the national and European level, with particular attention to the impact of the EU on domestic administrative systems. European Administrative Governance series Series standing order ISBN 978-1137-29475-3 (paperback) and978-0230-35976-5 (cased )You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order.

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“…The increasing mediatization of society might suggest that the balance of power is tipping in favor of the journalists but research indicates that social actors can play a substantial role in shaping the news media's agendas (Larsson, 2009;Walgrave & Van Aelst, 2006). Besides influencing media agendas, social actors' concerns include "reach[ing] the mass public (…), influenc[ing] the media framing (…) build[ing] public support that can put pressure on other political actors (…), and, ultimately, influenc[ing] public opinion formation processes" (Strömbäck, et al, 2013, p. 32) The EU institutions' press work With a few exceptions (Martins, et al, 2012;Meyer, 1999), scholars have investigated the relationship between reporters and the EU institutions from the point of view of one of the two parties. In this review we focus on the institutional side of the relationship.…”

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“…With a few exceptions (Martins, Lecheler, and De vreese 2012; Meyer 1999), scholars have investigated the relationship between reporters and the EU institutions from the point of view of one of the two parties. In this review, we focus on the institutional side of the relationship.…”

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“…This explorative and mainly inductive study heeds the call for more empirically based insight into EU institutions' interactions with the media (Martins, Lecheler, & De vreese, 2012) by shedding light on EP press officers' (POs') professional practices as perceived by the POs themselves. On the basis of interviews with EP POs, we seek insight into the logics that guide these communicators' media relations efforts.…”

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Mediatization and Government Communication

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Valentini

2014

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Social actors see exposure in the news media as attractive for publicity purposes and are under pressure to adapt their press work to a “media logic” to be attractive sources for journalists and editors. This article investigates the European Parliament’s press officers’ professional practices in the light of mediatization and government communication theories. Without one pan-European public sphere, the European Parliament, like the other European Union (EU) institutions, competes with national actors for the news media’s attention in the EU’s twenty-eight national public spheres, where EU affairs do not tend to get a media coverage that matches the EU’s considerable influence on European citizens’ daily lives. This study, which is based on in-depth interviews with European Parliament press officers, concludes that these professionals are indeed attuned to a “media logic” in their communication efforts, and that they face a daily professional challenge as they attempt to promote the European Parliament and its activities to the news media in a way that will not compromise their credibility as government sources. The study provides new insights into communicative aspects of EU governance, and particularly into the thinking that guides the efforts of these European Parliament officials to increase European citizens’ awareness of, and support for, the European Parliament that is meant to voice the citizens’ concerns in political processes at the EU level.

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Information Flow and Communication Deficit: Perceptions of Brussels-Based Correspondents and EU Officials

Cited by 18 publications

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Pan-European institutions and new media: pan-European or counter-pan-European media usage?

Pan-European institutions and new media: pan-European or counter-pan-European media usage?

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