Framing the future of Europe debates on Twitter: the personalisation of EU politicisation in the 2019 EU election campaigns
This chapter analyses the role of the European Commission President, national leaders and transnational parties in setting the agenda of the 2019 European election campaigns. In particular, it discusses whether the personalisation of European politics is contributing to the transnational and nationa...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:biblosearchi::ece7249ab02257e35da9372d39ff2f92 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10486/756740 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82700-7_8 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | EU Elections candidates social media framing Política |
| Sumario: | This chapter analyses the role of the European Commission President, national leaders and transnational parties in setting the agenda of the 2019 European election campaigns. In particular, it discusses whether the personalisation of European politics is contributing to the transnational and national politicisation of the EU. It does so by analysing the impact and resonance of three national leaders’, Emmanuel Macron (France), Angela Merkel (Germany) and Pedro Sánchez (Spain), speeches on the transnational Future of Europe debate by combining qualitative (national leaders’ speeches and political party manifestos for the 2019) and quantitative sources (the impact of the speeches in the pan-European Twittersphere). The chapter conceives social media as a new kind of intermediary political communication sphere where specific but substantial communication exchanges happen. The results provide mixed confirmation for expectations about the personalisation of the debate. Whereas there is a clear intergovernmental focus on the best known leaders (Merkel and Macron), this contrasts with the absence of personalisation of the conversations ahead of the 2019 elections as neither the national leaders nor the Spitzenkandidaten are central in the discussions |
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