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Empirical knowledge about the media coverage of European
Parliament elections is a prerequisite for assessing the wellbeing of democratic
processes in Europe. It has been argued that the EU democratic deficit can only
be overcome with the establishment of a European public sphere, in which the
European topics become visible and discussed in national media, thus promoting
citizens' knowledge and engagement with EU policies.
As maintained by Wodak and Wright (2006: 253), constant communication
between the demos and its representatives is key to guaranteeing the
representation and participation of citizens in the EU polity.
Thus the aim of this paper, following the lens of critical discourse analysis, is to
investigate the Portuguese press coverage of the latest European elections made
both by dailies and weeklies between 13-27 May 2019. The focus will put upon
the main topics of the electoral campaign, their degrees of salience, the
visibility of political actors, the way the EU is described and framed so as to
assess the degree of europeanization of the Portuguese press coverage and its
wider implications for the process of European construction/deconstruction.
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Media coverage European Parliament elections European public sphere Portuguese press coverage
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Simões-Ferreira, I., Centeno, M.J., & Gomes, P.M. (2020). Portuguese press coverage of the 2019 european elections. In A. Vicente Domínguez & N. Abuín Vences (Coords.), La comunicación especializada del Siglo XXI. (pp. 105-122). Madrid: McGrawHill.