European Solidarity Under Scrutiny

Empirical Evidence for the Effects of Media Identity Framing
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-67181-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

This book explores the processes through which European solidarity is constructed. More specifically, it investigates how the media's framing of European identity can facilitate and/or impede the emergence of European solidarity on the individual level. Through an online experiment that tested the effect of two different media identity frames on individual solidarity during the European debt crisis, the author argues that the exposure to news articles using a value-based identity frame boosts solidarity compared to an economic identity frame.

This interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of political sociology, political communication and political psychology, as well as any researchers who study European integration.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Starke, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- The European Debt Crisis and the Quest for European Solidarity.- 3. Solidarity in the European Union.- 4. Media Identity Framing.- 5. Method and Data.- 6. Results & Discussion.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Starke is a Post-Doctoral Researcher of political communication at the Department of Social Sciences at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is also affiliated with the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy (DIID).