Abstract
The chapter analyses Twitter as one of the several fora where the general public sphere manifests itself.
The Twitter debate generated in Italy during the campaign for EP2014 is used as a prism for looking
in depth into the mutual shaping between the specific grammar of the micro-blogging platform and
the ongoing politicization of the EU within and across national politics. The contribution looks at the
ways in which specific socio-communicative features of Twitter have became deeply interlaced with the
emergence of Europe-related structure of meanings. Special attention is paid to the performative role of
hashtags in summoning publics and in triggering a peculiar kind of ambient affiliation that is more than
mere connectivity and rather involves the opening of a discursive space where negotiation of meanings
becomes possible.
| Lingua originale | English |
|---|---|
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | (R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media |
| Editor | T. Deželan I. Vobič |
| Pagine | 147-167 |
| Numero di pagine | 21 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2016 |
Keywords
- european elections
- european public sphere
- hashtags