Europe, the Crisis, and the Internet

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-25

3. Transnational Media Communication

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   Pages 27-69

4. Public Discourses and Political Online Communication

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   Pages 71-129

5. Analysing Transnational Web Spheres

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   Pages 131-152

6. The Crisis Web Sphere

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   Pages 153-264

7. Conclusions

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   Pages 265-274

8. Back Matter

   Pages 275-317

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This book provides a detailed analysis of the transnational web sphere that emerged at the height of the Eurozone crisis between 2011 and 2013. During these turbulent years, a diverse spectrum of professional communicators from the media and political sectors as well as from opinionated individuals on blogs and social media discussed, and thus framed, the crisis in the digital public sphere. The analysis focuses on the various fields of contestation of the crisis that became detectable in the transnational online discourse and shows how conflict and fragmentation shaped political communication in this context. Nguyen concludes that there was not a single crisis but a chain of intersecting and profound political and cultural conflicts triggered by the economic upheavals, which led to the emergence of an extremely dynamic and unstable transnational digital public sphere, where different political and cultural viewpoints collided.

• Europe
• Media
• internet
• public sphere theory
• web communication
• internet studies
• eurozone
• EU

• University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Dennis Nguyen

Dennis Nguyen is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. His research focuses on online public spheres and political communication, with emphasis placed on transnational political discourses. 
 

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