The European Union and the Public Sphere

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Erik Fossum
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

scholarly journals European Populism: A Communicative Aspect

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Gennadiy Chernov
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
European History ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Eu

This paper deals with the growing populism movement in Europe. This movement is critical of the European Union and its certain economic and immigration policies. The studies dominant in the field look at different communicative aspects of these phenomena. They point at styles and rhetoric related to populism and failures of the pro-EU forces to communicate effectively why these policies are right and populist citizens are wrong.This paper argues that the problem is not in successes or failures of communication per se, but in shutting out many European citizens from the debate in the public sphere. Not finding reflections of the concerns in the media and policies, and having fewer options to relay their messages to elites perceived to be in power in the EU, these citizens become ‘populist citizens’, and they start voting for populist parties in growing numbers.The article concludes that studies of a communicative aspect of populism need not only discuss mediation, but the policies related to this mediation. Policies may be successful only when people accept them after a free debate. That is what was in the heart of the communicative acts in European history.

scholarly journals There’s no such thing as a good Arab: Cultural essentialism and its functions concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke J Buhagiar ◽  
Gordon Sammut ◽  
Alessia Rochira ◽  
Sergio Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
The Public Sphere

Concerns about immigration are salient in the European Union and in Malta in particular. Previous research has demonstrated deep antipathy towards the Arab community in Malta, and social representations of Arabs are mired in a conflation of ethnic and religious categories with negative connotations. This paper presents evidence of the potency, within the public sphere, of negative arguments from cultural essentialism, concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe. The data were obtained abductively from a data corpus containing positive, mixed and negative arguments about Arabs and their integration. Results pointed towards the almost total exclusivity of arguments from cultural essentialism. These posited Arabic culture as an underlying essence that makes integration difficult or impossible. Different forms of culturally essentialist views varied in their emphasis of different aspects of cultural essentialism. Reductionist, determinist, delineatory and temporal aspects of cultural essentialism were all emphasised by respondents. The essentialist exceptions to negative arguments from cultural essentialism were rare and were posed tentatively by participants. Their paucity and manner of delivery substantiate the claim that it is strictly an Arabic cultural essence that is deemed to make integration impossible. Findings are discussed in light of the communicative functions that these dominant argumentative strategies fulfil.

scholarly journals A Review of the Halal Poultry Slaughtering from Welfare and Legal Perspectives: Analysis of Research Results

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Karrar Imad Abdulsahib Al-Shammari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Review ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Controversial Aspect

The subject of halal slaughtering is one of the most widely discussed issues of animal cruelty and animal welfare in the public sphere. The discrepancy in understanding the contemporary and religious laws pertaining to animal slaughtering does not fully publicize to Islamic and Muslim majority countries especially with respect to interpreting the use of stunning in animals. The electrical stunning is the cheapest, easiest, safest, and most suitable method for slaughtering that is widespread and developed. However, stunning on head of poultry before being slaughtered is a controversial aspect among the Islamic sects due to regulations of the European Union and some other countries. The current review highlights the instructions of halal slaughtering, legal legislation, and the effect of this global practice on poultry welfare and the quality of produced meat.

scholarly journals Science and technology in a mediatized and democratized society

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. A02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter A. Maeseele
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
European Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Western Democracies

We inhabit an age in which economic progress in the European Union is equalized to more European research and better communication of that European research to the public. In highly developed Western democracies this implies an important role for the public as well as the mass media, both actors in a transforming public sphere. Beyond a call for more communication and more scientific literacy, the discourse has shifted to a call for more engagement and more participation on behalf of the citizen. There is a widespread sentiment however that the discipline of science communication is at a crossroads. In this paper it is argued that in a context of life politics and an increasing displacement of politics, one has to account for the trajectories of issue formation and the detours of public-ization to understand the dynamics of techno-scientific issues.

scholarly journals LÍMITES AL DERECHO DE ASISTENCIA SANITARIA TRANSFRONTERIZA Y PRINCIPIO DE PROPORCIONALIDAD TRAS LA SENTENCIA DEL TJUE DE 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2020.

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-399
Author(s):  
Belén López Insua
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Community Health Care System

Health protection is one of the fundamental pillars of the European Union and of the process of social-democratic constitutionalism. The achievement of a Community health care system is now more than ever one of the great challenges for the European community. In spite of these objectives, the European Union has adopted a logic that relies more on an interventionist model than on simple coordination, rather than on a harmonised system for all Member States. Unfortunately, this particular cooperative pluralism has made each of the Community countries competent and responsible for the coordination rules laid down by the Union. In this sense, Directive 2011/24/EU is set as the reference standard to guarantee the right of all European citizens to receive safe and quality healthcare, both in the public sphere and in the private sphere of another Member State. The aim is to guarantee the freedom of movement and movement of persons without damaging health. Today, the right to health care is a fundamental social right of a primary nature, which is linked to the right to life and dignity.

scholarly journals Institutional references (European/Global Public Sphere)

10.34778/2zj ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Court ◽  
National Quality ◽  
The Public Sphere

The variable “institutional references” refers to international institutions which are mentioned in the coverage of national media outlets. International institutions can be related to the EU (e.g., the European Commission, the European Parliament) or other transnational communities (e.g., the NATO for the transatlantic community). Studies using the variable “institutional reference” aim to compare the share of mentions of transnational and national institutions and search for differences between countries and/or an increase of references over time. The variable has been measured in analyses on quality and the popular press and in single country studies as well as in comparative research. It is usually coded on the level of articles. Some studies consider headlines or the articles’ first paragraph only.   Field of application/theoretical foundation: The variable “institutional references” is used to analyze the monitoring of transnational governance in national media outlets. It is one indicator for the vertical transnationalization of the public sphere (Koopmans & Erbe, 2004; Trenz, 2004; Wessler et al., 2008).   References/combination with other methods of data collection: Research on vertical transnationalization of the public sphere has been combined with qualitative studies on editorial processes and interviews with journalists (Hepp et al., 2012). The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of which editorial processes and which occasions drive EU coverage.   Example studies: Wessler et al. (2008); Hepp et al. (2016)   Information on Wessler et al., 2008 Authors: Hartmut Wessler, Bernhard Peters, Michael Brüggemann, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Stefanie Sifft Research question/research interest: Comparison of the transnationalization of public spheres in six countries Object of analysis: National quality newspaper, popular press, regional papers Timeframe of analysis: 1982–2013 Variable name/definition: Institutional references   Information on Hepp et al., 2016 Authors: Andreas Hepp, Monika Elsler, Swantje Lingenberg, Anne Mollen, Johanna Möller, Anke Offerhaus Research question/research interest: Comparison of the transnationalization of public spheres in six countries Object of analysis: National quality newspaper, popular press, regional papers Timeframe of analysis: 1982–2013   Information about variable Variable name/definition: Institutional references “What international institutions were mentioned in the article? Institutions were coded, but concepts were not; for example the euro is not an institution. If the reference occurred in the header or the first paragraph of the article, it was coded as a primary institutional reference. Up to three primary institutional references could be coded per article. All international institutions that were mentioned in an article but had not already been coded as primary institutional references were coded as secondary institutional refences. Up to five secondary institutional references could be coded per article.” (Wessler et al., 2008, p. 212) 01 European Union in general (EU) 02 European Commission 03 European Council 04 Council of the European Union 05 European Parliament 06 European Court of Justice 07 European Central Bank 08 other EU institutions 09 EU Intergovernmental Conference 10 EU Convention 11 NATO 12 OECD 13 GATT/WTO 14 UN 15 UN Security Council 16 UN World Conference 17 Bretton Wood Institutions (World Bank, IMF) 18 Commonwealth 19 West European Union (WEU) 20 CSCE/OSCE (Conference/Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) 21 European Court of Human Rights 22 EFTA 23 EEC 25 Warsaw Pact 997 Other institutions – please specify! 998 Unclear 999 Not applicable Level of analysis: Article Scale level: Nominal          Reliability: Kappa 0.79   References Wessler, H., Peters, B., Brüggemann, M., Kleinen-von Königslöw, K., Sifft, S. (2008). Transnationalization of Public Spheres. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Hepp, A., Elsler, M., Lingenberg, S., Mollen, A., Möller, J., Offerhaus, A. (2016). The Communicative Construction of Europe. Cultures of Political Discourse, Public Sphere and the Euro Crisis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Privacy, Speech, and the Digital Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-121
Author(s):  
Robert C. Post
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Right To Be Forgotten ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right

Norms of privacy are grounded in social practices. When social practices are unsettled and rapidly evolving, as they are in digital space, these norms are subject to confusion and uncertainty. A good example is the recent decision of Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Google Spain SL v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) (“Google Spain”), which created the “right to be forgotten.” The CJEU derived the right to be forgotten from Directive 95/46/EC (“Directive”), which is arguably the most influential privacy document in the world. The Directive imagines digital data as stored in a space of instrumental reason, as it is when data is compiled and processed by large bureaucratic organizations. The Directive protects data privacy in order to maximize the control of data by data subjects. But the CJEU applied the right to be forgotten to public discourse in the public sphere. The instrumental logic of data privacy is inappropriate to the communicative action of the public sphere, as is the value of “control.” Instead the CJEU should have conceptualized the right to be forgotten to safeguard the dignitary privacy that courts have applied to public discourse for more than a century. Dignitary privacy ensures civility within public debate. It focuses on communicative acts, rather than data. And it requires an assessment of harm to public discourse. All of these concepts are foreign to the analytic framework of data privacy. The CJEU’s confusion between data privacy and dignitary privacy leads to inconsistencies and logical deficiencies in its opinion, which are unlikely to have occurred were the court to have focused on the ordinary print media of the public sphere.

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