Mariaeugenia Parito

• University of Messina

The paper examines the relationship between young Italians and political participation and their approach to participation and communication in the supranational public sphere. We analyze the case of Volt, the first pan-European party. Volt was born as a result of the impulse of some young people who try to explore innovative forms of political par...

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The paper aims to analyse the impact of the double crises (Covid-19 pandemic and Russia - Ukraine war) on European identity among university students from Central and Southern Europe. The explorative analysis, based on an online survey, focused on young students’ attitudes or opinions towards the EU in the hybrid media ecology which involve the fri...

The latest emergencies-economic, refugee, and the pandemic of Covid-19-has impacted in European collective identity construction, especially in Southern Europe. This article investigates if the pandemic crisis has activated in young Italian and Spanish university students nationalistic or/and European responses. The analysis, based on an online sur...

The article aims at analysing emerging communication flows of transnational public debate supported and promoted by European institutions. Innovative practices that involve youngsters are the main focus. The article presents a qualitative study conducted through the analysis of the together.eu initiative, a pan-European community promoted by the Eu...

The Covid-19 pandemic highlights the disinformation as a risk for European Union integration. False or deceptive news have always existed, but in recent years they tend to impact on public debate and democratic participation alarmingly for the connection with the professionalization of communication strategies by political-institutional actors for...

The pandemic crisis and the linked infodemic are extraordinary cases to test the EU capability to manage the disinformation disorder, especially towards young people. This paper aims to analyse the impact of the EU communicative actions regarding disinformation about Covid-19, on trust and sense of belonging in young Italian and Spanish university...

The paper examines the Eu communication policies aimed to promote a better relationship with citizens. The European institutions, mainly the Commission, increased the attention in public communication in relevant stages of integration process, but the crises were particular occasions to remark the need to improve practices that allow the building o...

The notion of a media event as originally proposed by Dayan and Katz may be used to analyse the media representation of European elections and the function they have in the European integration process. Authors mention ‘ceremonial politics’ as central to understanding European nationalism because ceremonial politics concern the yearning for togethe...