Abstract
This paper discusses the media coverage of the European Union official information and documentation (press release, EU summits press conference communiques, etc.) released by the European Union official newsroom and disseminated using the online press in the period January–May 2017.
The paper reveals the inner-patterns of the EU online information dissemination while challenging the most important public events of the Europeans during this period: i.e. celebration of the sixty years of the EU existence, Dutch elections of March 2017, French elections of April/May 2017. The paper scrutinizes European and international online media platforms such as: politico.eu, europa.eu, neweurope.eu, euractiv.com using the content analysis methodology. The paper analyses media coverage by exploring the following dimensions:
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Targeting the main European Union (EU) themes in online media-coverage
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Labelling the framing of online news articles
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Determining the tone of journalists and issues
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Pinpointing the most influencing issues in media coverage
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Georgescu, C.M., Olimid, A.P., Olimid, D.A., Georgescu, S.D., Gherghe, C.L. (2017). Monitoring Media Scrutiny of EU Official Information and Documentation. A Content Analysis of the European Online News Coverage (January–May 2017). In: Katsikas, S., Zorkadis, V. (eds) E-Democracy – Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent E-Government Services. e-Democracy 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 792. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71117-1_8
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