E-Democracy and the European Public Sphere

The chapter starts with an outline of outstanding recent contributions to the discussion of the EU democratic deficit and the so-called “no demos” problem and the debate about European citizenship and European identity—mainly in the light of insights from the EU crisis. This is followed by reflections on the recent discussion on the state of the mass media-based European public sphere. Finally, the author discusses the state of research on the Internet’s capacity to support the emergence of a (renewed) public sphere, with a focus on options for political actors to use the Internet for communication and campaigning, on the related establishment of segmented issue-related publics as well as on social media and its two-faced character as an enabler as well as a distorting factor of the public sphere. The author is sceptic about the capacities of Internet-based political communication to develop into a supranational (European) public sphere. It rather establishes a network of a multitude of discursive processes aimed at opinion formation at various levels and on various issues. The potential of online communication to increase the responsiveness of political institutions so far is set into practice insufficiently. Online media are increasingly used in a vertical and scarcely in a horizontal or interactive manner of communication

Impiego di metodi fotocatalitici per la potabilizzazione delle acque

Progetto finanziato da Industrie Chimiche Caffaro (Brescia) nell'anno 2004 che si è tradotto in una convenzione tra l'Università di Ferrara e Caffaro dal 2005

Politiche pubbliche e frames nei giornali italiani

Come si comunicano o si dovrebbero comunicare le politiche pubbliche? I media rappresentano un mezzo a disposizione delle istituzioni e della politica per arrivare ai cittadini oppure diventano parte attiva del processo decisionale? Il cittadino, attraverso i media, cerca informazioni puntuali sulle decisioni pubbliche, oppure orientamenti cognitivi che lo aiutino a risolvere l\u2019incertezza e gli consentano di adottare una posizione sul tema di policy in discussione? In questo capitolo cercheremo di analizzare le modalit\ue0 mediante le quali i media articolano la narrazione delle policy