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The news about democracy : information crisis in american politics -- News stories : four information biases that matter -- Citizens and the news: public opinion and information processing -- How politicians make the news -- How journalists report the news -- Inside the profession : objectivity and political authority bias -- The political economy of news and the end of a journalism era -- All the news that fits democracy : solutions for citizens, politicians, and journalists

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational process that may replace or supplement familiar forms of collective action based on organizational resource mobilization, leadership, and collective action framing. In some cases, connective action emerges from crowds that shun leaders, as when Occupy protesters created media networks to channel resources and create loose ties among dispersed physical groups. In other cases, conventional political organizations deploy personalized communication logics to enable large-scale engagement with a variety of political causes. The Logic of Connective Action shows how power is organized in communication-based networks, and what political outcomes may result

1. Introduction Thomas Risse 1. - Part I. How to Grasp the Europeanization of Public Spheres: Theory, Methods, Empirics: 2. Theorizing communication flows within a European public sphere Barbara Pfetsch and Annett Heft 29. - 3. How advanced is the Europeanization of public spheres? Comparing German and European structures of political communication Ruud Koopmans 53. - 4. National media as transnational discourse arenas: the case of humanitarian military interventions Cathleen Kantner 84. - 5. European issue publics online: the cases of climate change and fair trade W. Lance Bennett, Sabine Lang and Alexandra Segerberg 108. - Part II. Consequences: Does the Europeanization of Public Spheres Matter?: 6. European public spheres, the politicization of EU affairs, and its consequences Thomas Risse 141. - 7. Media and identity: the paradox of legitimacy and the making of European citizens Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter 165. - 8. The restructuring of political conflict in Europe and the politicization of European integration Edgar Grande and Hanspeter Kriesi 190. - Part III. Theoretical and Normative Implications: 9. Identity, Europe and the world beyond public spheres Jeffrey T. Checkel 227. - 10. Democracy, identity, and European public spheres Andreas Follesdal 247