Citizens, Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations

Koc-Michalska, Karolina (EDT)/ Lilleker, Darren (EDT)/ Baden, Christian (EDT)

Routledge（2024/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 156 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032852317
• DDC分類 302.230947

Full Description

Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilisation, have begun to tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping how citizens interact with the state, political actors, media, and other citizens.

This book focuses on some of the challenges democratic institutions in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries face in transforming and sustaining civil society and captures how the digital media environments mitigate or exacerbate those challenges. The chapters in this book focus on the role that online platforms play in shaping satisfaction with democracy in the CEE region, the interactions between journalists and political actors, the strategic media coverage of elections, affective polarisation and political antagonism, and discursive attempts to discourage young people from civic engagement. The first section of the book looks at CEE countries from a comparative perspective, and the second section examines specific case studies within different CEE countries such as Albania and Kosovo, Czechia and Hungary, Poland and Ukraine.

This volume will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of Communication Studies, Politics, Media Studies, Sociology and Central and Eastern European studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Information, Technology & Politics.

Contents

Introduction: Citizens, Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations 1. Social media, quality of democracy, and citizen satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 2. Patterns of Negative Campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political Parties' Facebook Posts and Users' Sharing Behaviour across Twelve Countries 3. One conflict, two public spheres, three national debates: comparing the value conflict over judicial independence in Europe across print and social media 4. Interactive Election Campaigns on Social Media? Flow of Political Information Among Journalists and Politicians as an Element of the Communication Strategy of Political Actors 5. The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo? 6. One way or another? Discussion disagreement and attitudinal homogeneity on social networking sites as pathways to polarization in Czechia 7. Soros's soldiers, slackers, and pioneers with no expertise? Discursive exclusion of environmental youth activists from the digital public sphere in Hungary and Czechia 8. Like, Share, Comment, and Repeat: Far-right Messages, Emotions, and Amplification in Social Media 9. Donetsk don't tell - 'hybrid war' in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations