The Communicative Construction of Europe: Cultures of Political Discourse, Public Sphere, and the Euro Crisis

About Andreas HeppAnke OfferhausAnne MollenJohanna MöllerKenneth A. LoparoMonika ElslerSwantje Lingenberg

Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Centre for Media Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) University of Bremen Germany. His main research areas are media and communication theory media sociology mediatization research transnational and transcultural communication cultural studies media change and methods of media culture research. Monika Elsler is a Research Associate at the Centre for Communications Media and Information Research (ZeMKI) University of Bremen Germany. Her main research areas are transnational and transcultural communication. Swantje Lingenberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Media Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) University of Bremen Germany. Her main research areas are cultural studies public sphere theory transnational and transcultural communication audience research.Anne Mollen is a Research Associate at the Centre for Communications Media and Information Research (ZeMKI) University of Bremen Germany. Her research focuses on transcultural and transnational communication political online communication and audience research on media technologies. Johanna Möller is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Media Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) University of Bremen Germany. Her main research areas are public sphere research transcultural political communication political celebrity and the politicization of media technologies. AnkeOfferhaus is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Media Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) University of Bremen Germany. Her main research areas are journalism research public sphere research with a focus on European Public Sphere media sociology media and religion media appropriation with emphasis on grief.