The MEDIATIZED EU consortium is thrilled to announce the publication of its edited volume, in open access. The book explores and compares the mediatized discourses about Europeanization in Belgium, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, thus collecting the results of all seven case-studies and presenting the conclusions of this four-year long research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme.
The book is edited by Lia Tsuladze, Tetyana Lokot, and Sonia Boulos. With nine chapters in total, it starts by presenting the project’s overall theoretical framework and research design, in a chapter authored by Lia Tsuladze, then proceeds with the seven empirical chapters authored by research teams in each partner institution, and ends with a comparative analysis authored by Sonia Boulos and Tetyana Lokot. The volume thus offers invaluable perspectives on the evolution of the media’s role on the process of Europeanization and on how they resonate among the public by focusing on the elite-media-public triangle. For that, research adopted a comprehensive mixed-methods approach with qualitative, quantitative and deliberative research components that are well demonstrated in the book.
It overviews results of desk research to tackle the transformations of media discourses since the start of the 21st century, as well as the results of content analysis and critical discourse analysis of the current media discourses, of in-depth interviews with political and media elites, of nation-wide representative surveys of the population, and finally, of deliberative discussions with relevant publics in the target countries.
The book is available on the project’s website and on the Zenodo repository. It can be downloaded by clicking here. It can also be purchased from the publisher’s website, by clicking here.
