Journalism and the Construction of a European Public Sphere
Journalism and the Construction of a European Public Sphere

Summary/Abstract: It is generally agreed that the EU media coverage and the information management system of the European institutions could enhance the emergence of a European Public Sphere (EPS). The study stresses the important, even limited, role of journalism in the construction of any future EPS, and pleads for a large conceptualization of the notion of public sphere(s).The principal question is how far the management of information and in particular its transmission via the media could diminish a frustrated aspiration of the “European project” generated from the communication difficulties and deficiencies arisen from the structural complexity and institutional restrictions of the EU.

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