Abstract
This article looks into research findings of the “Adequate Information Management (AIM)” project in the new light. A principal issue investigated here concerns the political communication culture, or to put it more precisely, the interface between the Brussels correspondents and their political news sources. While focusing on differences that can be detected in the processes of the EU news gathering in Brussels, the article highlights commonalities in reporting as appearing across national communication cultures. Indeed, the communications’ context in Brussels is an interesting research case: for journalists, it creates unique conditions for different journalisms and political communication cultures to meet; for scholars, it requires to address new questions in European communication research.
Highlights
Changes in Communication and European PoliticsDemocratic problems of the European Union, or to put it more precisely – lack of legitimacy and transparency of European political institutions, no real basis for public debates, weak citizen participation as well as many others – have gained a considerable amount of interest among social scientists and researchers of communication all over Europe
In order to gain a better understanding of how media in Europe report and could report about the EU issues, it becomes of crucial importance to investigate the procedural aspects of the EU news making as well as the elements of political communication culture as having impact upon these
In Brussels, information management and goal oriented behavior is practiced on both sides – the media and the political news sources
Summary
Democratic problems of the European Union, or to put it more precisely – lack of legitimacy and transparency of European political institutions, no real basis for public debates, weak citizen participation as well as many others – have gained a considerable amount of interest among social scientists and researchers of communication all over Europe. Research studies indicate that ordinary citizens treat the European Union as a complex supranational polity which is distant from domestic political realities Overcoming these distances and communication deficits becomes crucially important (Habermas 2001; Eriksen 2005). Changes in the nature of political communication in Europe have both structural (institutional conditions of political and media systems on macro and meso levels) and cultural dimensions. In this respect, the EU communication (in general) is an inte resting research field. In order to gain a better understanding of how media in Europe report and could report about the EU issues, it becomes of crucial importance to investigate the procedural aspects of the EU news making as well as the elements of political communication culture as having impact upon these
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