The Setting: The Greco-German Affair on the Euro Stage

Sternberg, Claudia; Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Kira; Nicolaïdis, Kalypso

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“…For Greek participants, no improvement in intergroup attitudes was observed, which can be attributed to the general context of that period. During that time, Greece was going through a polarized referendum, intense talks with the European Union about the Greek debt were taking place, banks were closing for days, and a general negative public opinion for many European countries, mostly those in the North and especially Germany, was present (Sternberg et al, 2018;Tzogopoulos, 2015;Vasileiadis et al, 2020). Furthermore, for both national groups, as we also found in Study 1 and as expected based on relevant theory, national identification and intergroup anxiety negatively predicted intergroup attitudes (Brown & Hewstone, 2005;Brown et al, 1999;Hogg & Vaughan, 2008, Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006Stephan & Stephan, 1984).…”

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“…To answer these questions, we conducted a cross-sectional study on Twitter and a longitudinal study on Facebook, focusing on the online interaction between Greek and German users of the platforms. The studies were conducted in a period when the relationships between the two countries were heightened due to the economic crisis in Greece (Sternberg et al, 2018;Tzogopoulos, 2015;Vasileiadis et al, 2020). Our purpose was to explore intergroup contact during a highly confrontational period in two of the media that people most often were using to express their views, frustration, and thoughts about each other and where contact between Greek and German nationals was an everyday occurrence.…”

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Online intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A cross sectional and a longitudinal study of Greeks and Germans interacting on Twitter and Facebook

2023

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The current study examined social networking sites, specifically Twitter and Facebook, as spaces for intergroup communication and contact between members of two national groups, Germans and Greeks, during the turbulent times of the Greek economic crisis. A cross-sectional study on Twitter and a longitudinal study on Facebook were conducted. We examined how social psychological variables (such as prior and extended contact, friendship, intergroup anxiety, national identification) and variables specific to the communication context (such as perceived quality of contact, vicarious contact quality, perceived anonymity, self-disclosure) relate to intergroup attitudes. Both social psychological and communication-relevant variables statistically significantly and independently predicted intergroup attitudes. Moreover, the longitudinal study showed that online contact improved intergroup attitudes and reduced intergroup anxiety. Findings suggest that intergroup contact via social networking sites can have positive effects on intergroup attitudes and that both social psychological and communication-related variables are important in understanding these effects.

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Online intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A cross sectional and a longitudinal study of Greeks and Germans interacting on Twitter and Facebook

2023

Psychology of Language and Communication

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“…In mapping the different stories, I have followed the qualitative approach of recent narrative research. More precisely, I have conducted a document analysis and subjected sources such as newspaper columns, interviews, blog entries, and political pamphlets to an interpretation (see Manners and Murray 2016; Sternberg et al 2018).…”

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Challenging the masters of the treaties: Emerging narratives of constituent power in the European Union

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2018

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Abstract:There is a growing sense that if the EU is to avoid disintegration, it needs a constitutional renewal. However, a reform negotiated between executives will hardly revitalise the European project. In light of this, commentators have suggested that the EU needs a democratic refounding on popular initiative. But that is easier said than done. Shaping the EU has been an elite enterprise for decades and it is hard to imagine how things could be otherwise. In this article, I map four public narratives of constituent power in the EU to sketch out potential alternatives. Political actors increasingly call into question the conventional role of the states as the ‘masters of the treaties’ and construct alternative stories as to who should be in charge of EU constitutional politics, how the respective subject came to find itself in that position, and how it should invoke its founding authority in the future. These public narratives represent a promising starting point for a normative theory that outlines a viable and justifiable path for transforming the EU in a bottom-up mode.

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The Setting: The Greco-German Affair on the Euro Stage

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Online intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A cross sectional and a longitudinal study of Greeks and Germans interacting on Twitter and Facebook

Online intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A cross sectional and a longitudinal study of Greeks and Germans interacting on Twitter and Facebook

Challenging the masters of the treaties: Emerging narratives of constituent power in the European Union

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