Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology: Empirical Evidence for the Effects of Media Identity Framing

Starke, Christopher

This book explores the processes through which European solidarity is constructed. More specifically, it investigates how the media's framing of European identity can facilitate and/or impede the emergence of European solidarity on the individual level. Through an online experiment that tested the effect of two different media identity frames on individual solidarity during the European debt crisis, the author argues that the exposure to news articles using a value-based identity frame boosts solidarity compared to an economic identity frame.

This interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of political sociology, political communication and political psychology, as well as any researchers who study European integration.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-02-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030671785

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67179-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 287