Nationales Indexing versus Europäische Öffentlichkeit?

Researching the case of the transnational European conflict around the so-called „Greece and Euro crisis“, the study analyzes the role of media and journalists in the making of a European public sphere and its domestic adaptations with national colors. The author develops and empirically tests a model of “national indexing” of the media which contributes to a better understanding of the construction mechanisms underlying this emergent transnational public space.
Based on qualitative and quantitative content analyses of ­political documents and the news coverage of German and Spanish newspapers, it is not only examined whether, to what extend and in what form the media coverage of the crisis ­phenomena is shaped by national orientations. Furthermore, the question is answered in what way and under which ­conditions national orientations in the media can be explained by mechanisms of national indexing.