Between Europeanization and De-Europeanization: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Pre-election Presentation of the EU Agenda in the Czech Quality Press

URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína and Jaromír VOLEK. Between Europeanization and De-Europeanization: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Pre-election Presentation of the EU Agenda in the Czech Quality Press. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research. 2014, vol. 39, No 4, p. 457-481. ISSN 0341-2059. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2014-0024.

Basic information

• Original name: Between Europeanization and De-Europeanization: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Pre-election Presentation of the EU Agenda in the Czech Quality Press
• Authors: URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Jaromír VOLEK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 2014, 0341-2059.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.297
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/14:00077342
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2014-0024
• UT WoS: 000345025300005
• Keywords in English: agenda setting; media agenda; media framing; Europeanization; content analysis
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The paper explores the process of the Czech journalists setting the EU agenda in the media during the ‘hot phase’ of the Czech national parliament election campaigns in 2002, 2006, and 2010. Unlike most studies that concentrated on the media agenda in the European Parliament election campaigns, we focused on periods that were neither strictly key events nor routine, but that were more intensively covered by the media and simultaneously generated more influential political representation defining national political attitudes towards the EU. Articles that referred to the EU during the ‘hot phase’ were content analyzed. The results suggest that in the Czech press, the EU agenda is less and less visible, and, moreover, that it is increasingly negatively framed and reduced to an economic agenda.

Links

• MUNI/A/0798/2011, interní kód MU: Name: Proměny mediální reprezentace agendy EU v českých parlamentních volbách: místo pro euroskepsi, nebo eurooptimismus? (Acronym: EUMediaAgenda_CzechGeneralElectionCampaigns)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A