To provide an overview of the literature on the European public
sphere;
The assessment of and how existing literature has analysed the
connection between the media, the public sphere and ethics;
To integrate research done at the national level and in less known
languages, in member and accession states, into a common European
research area;
To investigate the role of the media in creating and discussing
'European crises', in determining the moral parameters along which
such crises 'should' be discussed, in constructing a moral responsibility
discourse for Europe and/or the EC/EU and, thus, ultimately in shaping
European public spheres (EPS);
To investigate the diverse national editorial cultures in Europe
and assess their convergence in a single global (rather than distinctively
European) news-making culture of the post-war period;
The investigation of common visual repertoires used to represent
the morally 'right' and 'wrong' during periods of 'European crises';
Drawing upon the findings on objectives 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 we will
assess the roles of the media in constituting European public spheres
(EPS) and also how the (trans)formation of EPS provides communicative
space for the media to function at a transnational level;
To develop a set of ethical guidelines for media reporting in Europe;
To invent new formats for internet communication that can be used
to engage citizens more actively in public dialogue and encourage
their participation in public life;
To make a contribution towards developing a definition of European
public spheres which departs from the existing literature based on
the study of national public spheres putting into focus the peculiar
transnational, issue-related and networked character of the European
public sphere.
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