Notes
1. See inter alia, Beck, German Europe; Delors, “Let’s Create a Bottom-Up Europe”; Hix, What’s Wrong with Europe; Heidenreich, ed., Krise der Europäischen Vergesellschaftung, 185–199.
2. Cf. Hepp, Transcultural Communication; Mau and Verwiebe, European Societies.
3. Cf. Hepp, “Transculturality as a Perspective”; Mau and Verwiebe, European Societies.
4. For the wider background, see Glaser and Strauss, Discovery of Grounded Theory.
5. Cf. Vobruba, “Social Construction,” 263–79; Vobruba, “Gesellschaftsbildung durch die Eurokrise,” 185–99.
6. Cf. Bernauer and Rasussen, eds., Final Foucault; Bennington, Jacques Derrida; Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere, 1–58; Habermas, Structural Transformation.
7. Risse, introduction to European Public Spheres, 1–25.
8. Cf. Wessler et al., introduction to Transnationalization of Public Spheres.
9. Cf. Lingenberg, “Citizen Audience,” 45–72; Vaara, “Struggles over Legitimacy,” 500–518.
10. Cf. Couldry, Livingstone, and Markham, Media Consumption and Public Engagement, 2–24, 36–58.
11. Cf. Schweizer, ed., Parliament and the Press, 2–4.
12. Hepp, “Mediatization,” 1–28.
13. Cf. Fraser, “Transnationalizing the Public Sphere,” 7–30; Knoblauch, “Communicative Constructionism and Mediatization,” 297–315.
14. Peters, Public Deliberation and Public Culture, 224–49.
15. Cf. Mancini, “Is There a European Model of Journalism?” 77–93.
16. Cf. Risse, A Community of Europeans?”; Risse, “European Public Spheres,” 141–64, also 1–25.
17. See Pfetsch, “Agents of Transnational Debate,” 21–40.
18. Cf. Vobruba, “Gesellschaftsbildung durch die Eurokrise,” 185–99.
19. Ibid., 221–25; Bruter, Citizens of Europe? intro., chaps. 1–3.
20. See Couldry, Livingston, and Markham, Media Consumption and Public Engagement, chaps. 2, 3; Eder, “Theory of Collective Identity,” 427–47.
21. Cottle, Mediatized Conflicts, 8–24; Risse, Theorizing Communication Flows, 53–83.
22. As already persuasively proposed in Eder, “Theory of Collective Identity,” 230–37; Risse, Theorizing Communication Flows, 7–25.